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Minuteman Security & Life Safety Expands New York Presence with Acquisition of Life Safety Integrated Systems Inc

Andover, MA — November 4, 2025 — Minuteman Security & Life Safety, the 2025 SDM Systems Integrator of the Year and one of North America’s fastest-growing security and life safety integrators, today announced the acquisition of Life Safety Integrated Systems Inc., a leading systems integrator based in Buffalo, New York.

Welcome Shanix Customers!

As you might know, Shanix was purchased by Minuteman Security & Life Safety in May of 2025.

There are some very positive developments for you:

• Our entire team stayed with the company.
• With greater geographic reach, we will be able to service more of your facilities.
• We have a greater technical abilities, particularly with global rollout support and in the cybersecurity field. We also have a managed services team which can perform easily-outsourced system maintenance and operation.
• Out product offering is now significantly broader, allowing us to solve more security problems and integrate a wider variety of components.

Minuteman got its start in the Boston area, and as longtime neighbors we are very happy about this partnership! Visit our About Us page to learn more about Minuteman.

We will be in regular touch about any meaningful changes about how you work with us, with plenty of advance notice when needed. Contact us if you have any questions.

Thanks for visiting, and welcome to the Minuteman family of customers.

Minuteman Rolling into ISC West

A lot has happened since the security industry’s biggest conference in April 2024. We’ve made a number of acquisitions, driven by culture fit and our plan to serve customers from Maine to Florida and beyond.

So when we arrive in Las Vegas, we’re ready to share our expanded ability to meet enterprise-scale security program requirements.

Minuteman Ranked 12th in SDM Top Systems Integrators of 2024

Minuteman has once again made a big jump in the rankings, in SDM’s annual survey of the largest security technology integrators.

How You Can Respond to the Flipper Zero Threat

A $100 handheld consumer-friendly device named the Flipper Zero got our attention in 2022, when its Kickstarter was a viral success.

Its continued popularity more recently got the attention of the New Jersey government, who correctly called it a potential threat to any company or school with access cards.

Centralizing Your Security Systems

It’s common for large companies with multiple facilities in the US (and overseas) to have a fragmented set of security systems at all those sites. You might have several kinds of video surveillance solutions running at the same time, and access control systems that don’t talk to each other or your HR database.

How Managed Services Improve Your Security System’s Uptime

This is part of our series on how a managed services team helps your system deliver the required level of corporate safety and security.

(If you’re new to this series, a third-party “managed services team” is a remote set of security experts who assume responsibility for your security system’s day-to-day operation. Here’s our team.)

Today, we’ll focus on how they help deliver a high level of system uptime.

A Few Thoughts on Employee Compensation

Our small teams approach works because Minuteman employees tend to stay with us for a long time.

Why?

Why We Decided on the Small Teams Approach

Here’s the sequence of people you might meet when you hire a typical security technology integrator.

Case Study: Novozymes

Novozymes is a global biotechnology company with its North American headquarters located in Franklinton, NC. Novozymes decided to overhaul and expand upon their aging access control and CCTV systems.