Managed digital security services offer the customer several advantages over direct purchase and internal operation of the system:

• Avoidance of a capital expenditure for the system
• Avoidance of responsibility for maintenance of the system
• Freedom from responsibility for equipment choice, installation, and maintenance
• Cost-effective access to expensive security system expertise
• Freedom from need to design and integrate security and IT systems effectively

Hosted solutions can offer additional economical and operational advantages:

• Economies of scale afforded through a provider's much larger installed customer base
• Potential redundancy of monitoring equipment and personnel
• Finer-grained cost structure for incremental expansion of secured facilities

If some of the points above apply to our situation, you should consider using a managed digital security service.