Central Security Group

Central Security Group, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Security systems, Video surveillance, Fire detection, Home Automation
Founded	1999
Founder	Mark Wilson, Harry Schenk
Headquarters	Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Key people	Richard Ginsburg (President and CEO) Harry Schenk (CFO) Jim Boots (CRO) Keith Patterson (COO)
Number of employees	475
Website	http://www.centralsecuritygroup.com

Central Security Group, Inc. provides installation, service, and monitoring for security systems and energy management and home automation services for residential and commercial customers. The company uses an authorized dealer network, internal sales team and branch offices to sell and install its security systems. The company serves customers in California, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina. In Oklahoma, the company does business as Guardian Security Services.

In 2015, the company was ranked number thirteen on SDM Magazine’s SDM 100 List based on its recurring monthly revenue (RMR) of December 31, 2014, among U.S. companies that provide electronic security systems and services to both residential and non-residential customers.

Central Security Group was co-founded in 1999 by Mark Wilson and Harry Schenk, who teamed with Stolberg, Meehan & Scano. That same year, Central Security Group purchased the base of Guardian Security Systems. Prior to Central Security Group, Wilson and Schenk ran Multimedia Security Service, an alarm monitoring company that was sold to Protection One in 1998.

Central Security Group provides wireless home security systems. Components of the systems include but are not limited to window and door sensors, security cameras, motion detectors, alarm keypads, indoor and outdoor sirens, glass break detectors, and alarm control panels.

Services related to these systems include alarm monitoring and installation, upgrading from 2g alarm cellular technology, remote access, a mobile app, severe weather alerts, two-way voice, water detection, smoke, heat, and carbon dioxide detection, and video monitoring.

Central Security Group provides home automation solutions that allow customers to automate lights, locks and thermostats and to use a smartphone to control appliances, entertainment systems, lights, locks, garage doors and their security systems.