Sentry® Safe

SHOT Show 2010

2010-02-02T05:46:00.000-08:00

Hello out there, I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Josh and I am new to Sentry®Safe and I will be your blogger and inside man here. I am looking forward to digging in and showing you all some of the exciting things that are happening at SentrySafe. I know what you are thinking, Safes? Exciting? I thought the same thing when I started and I can say there is a lot more going on in this organization than I ever expected and it is indeed very exciting stuff. The first big event I wanted to tell you about is coming direct from Las Vegas.

The Shooting, Hunting and Outdoors Trade show, more commonly known as SHOT Show is one of the most important events in the shooting sports and hunting industry. It is a place where companies come together to show off their latest and greatest products and hopefully get the buzz started for the upcoming year. The show attracts a wide range of dealers, enthusiasts and media from all over the world with attendance toping out at nearly 60,000 this year. It is quite an event, if you ever get a chance to go.

The mood of the event was upbeat. The shooting and hunting industry has been a bright spot in these otherwise troubled economic times. A lot of the companies in attendance reported positive signs that sales would remain strong into 2010.

Several years ago we began attending this event with our gun safe family of products. Our product offerings continue to provide innovation and quality. Something our consumers have come to expect.. This year at the show SentrySafe unveiled several new products that generated a great deal of excitement.

We unveiled a new 10-Gun FIRE-SAFE® Gun Safe. I will be talking more about this in a separate post over the next few days.

SentrySafe offered a "Locked & Loaded" special whereby the new 10-gun FIRE-SAFE gun safe was filled to the max with high-quality Hornady® ammunition and the person who guessed how many rounds were inside the safe will be winning the safe AND all of the ammunition. Additionally, there will be two more winners of just the 10-gun FIRE-SAFE gun safe. The winners will be announced May 1, 2010.

I know, I know a lot of folks out there couldn’t make it to the show and missed out on this exciting special. Well never fear! Everyone had so much fun we are going to do it again only this time you won’t need a plane ticket to Vegas to participate! Keep checking back in the spring or sign up for our newsletter for more details.

SHOT Show is always a great way for us to interact directly with our valuable partners and show them what we are up to and get them excited for the coming year. It is also a very exciting event to be a part of and one we look forward to every year.

I will be back in a few days with all the details on our latest 10-gun FIRE-SAFE gun safe.

Thanks for reading,

Joshua

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2009-11-20T11:41:00.000-08:00

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NBC News Iinvestigates how well affordable home safes protect your valuables

2009-08-26T05:29:00.000-07:00

For less than $70, the safes promise you some peace of mind, and it seems more and more Utahns are buying them. Most come with a claim of being fireproof, waterproof or both. KSL 5 News decided to put them to the test and see if these safes are worth the investment.

UFA Capt. Clint Smith Said

"I don't want to say that I am," Smith replied. "but I am quite frankly a little surprised that they held up as well as they did"

Safes tested by KSL:
Sentry F2300 Firesafe Waterproof Chest, $68.89 at Office Depot
Sentry H4300 Firesafe Waterproof Security File $59.99 at Sears
Sentry 1110 Firesafe Chest (not waterproof) $24.99 at Sears

Read More @ KSL.com

SentrySafe Fire Resistant, Water Resistant Filing Cabinet Beats The Competition!

2009-07-06T08:13:00.000-07:00

2-Drawer Vertical Fire File
2T2010P

4-Drawer Vertical Fire File
4T2010P

2-Drawer Lateral Fire File
2L3010P 2L3610P 2L4310P

4-Drawer Lateral Fire File
4L3010P 4L3610P 4L4310P

It’s not enough to keep important documents organized and secure. You need protection against one of the most common and destructive office disasters, Water Damage.

SentrySafe the world leader in document protection has acquired Schwab Crop and now brings unsurpassed water resistant technology to the office. The SentrySafe fire resistant water model went head to head @ the independent facilities of InterTek the global leader in testing and product certification.

Each model underwent identical inspection and preparation and testing as mandated by certification standards. The bottom surface area was covered with paper towels, the paper towels were the weighed and replaced. Each unit was then continuously sprayed for 1 hour. After 1 hour each unit was wiped down before the paper towels were removed and re-weighed.

The standard states that if any one drawer exceeds 15 grams of leakage, about the weight of 15 paper clips, the test is deemed a failure. The competition allowed so much leakage that final weigh in was not possible. The competition failed the test!

The SentrySafe model underwent the exact same testing and easily passed the tough requirements. Protect your documents against Fire and Water Damage with the SentrySafe Fire Resistant, Water Resistant Filing Cabinet.

Gun Safe Quality, Security and Flexibility for Responsible Firearm Owners

2009-04-30T12:54:00.000-07:00

The right to own and carry firearms is a time-honored tradition considered, by many, to be an important part of our heritage.

Responsible gun owners take this tradition very seriously. As lawful gun owners, they take pride in their prudent use of firearms for legitimate purposes. Likewise, they take enormous pride in the firearms themselves--firearms that often represent one-of-a-kind investments.

Whether you're a hunter, sportsman or hobbyist, owning a firearm, using it safely and handling it wisely go hand-in-hand. Securing and protecting your collection against damage, unauthorized use, theft and possible accidents is a vital part of this responsibility. It's the pride component in pride of ownership.

SentrySafe understands the unique safety and security issues that conscientious firearm owners face on a daily basis. Our extensive family of gun safes and cabinets -- available in various sizes and capacities -- accommodate individual storage needs with a host of standard and trade-up features that can include fire protection, dual locking systems (combination/electronic), high quality live/dead bolt provisions and configurable inferior shelving alternatives.

Providing quality-driven security gun safes and cabinets that protect firearms, collectibles and other priceless possessions is synonymous with the SentrySafe name. Promising the kind of innovation our customers expect continues to be the hallmark of our success.

Protect Your Stuff From Fire! Sentry Gets Put To The Test!

2009-04-14T05:08:00.000-07:00

People are buying safes to protect there property and money in these tough economic times.

ABC News set 2 home safes on fire, A Sentry Safe HD4100 and a competitor model.

They locked up the same items in both safes.

A Thumb Drive

A CD and DVD

Paper Work

Money

Members from the phoenix fire department were on stand by for safety reasons.

Wooden pallets were setup to mimic a house fire.

Both boxes were burned for 10 minuets @ 1500 degrees, typical for a house fire.

When the competitor’s model was opened only ashes remained, the Money, DVD, and paperwork were gone!

As for the Sentry Safe, The concrete was pealed off and the safe appeared to seal it self shut during the fire. Fire fighters peeled it opened to find the paper’s money, DVD and thumb drive in tact. It doesn’t even look like the fire touched the items. Nothing is damaged or wet from the fire.

Sentry Safe conducts rigorous testing on our products!

SentrySafe employees LIVE UNITED for local United Way

2009-04-07T11:21:00.000-07:00

For decades SentrySafe has supported its local United Way’s annual campaign. Jim Brush, CEO of SentrySafe, has been a longtime United Way board member and this year is leading the campaign. As Campaign Chair, Brush has donated his time and resources to helping the United Way meet its 2009 fundraising goals.

“Given the economic challenges facing our community today, I am encouraging our SentrySafe employees to consider joining the thousands of others who have chosen to support the United Way,” said Brush. “SentrySafe has been dedicated to the United Way of Greater Rochester for many years as we ask our company to not only support the non-profit financially, but to advocate among donors and to volunteer more.”

On March 13, 2009, SentrySafe kicked-off its annual United Way fundraising campaign. This year, SentrySafe hopes to raise $178,000 for the United Way’s 2009 LIVE UNITED campaign. While SentrySafe acknowledges that fundraising this year may be difficult, the company has created fun and engaging opportunities for employees to support the organization beyond monetary results. Some include a company-wide auction with items such as refurbished laptops, desktops, printers, safes, and golf items, along with a great deal of other products, a 50/50 raffle and a Day of Caring. The Day of Caring provides an opportunity for teambuilding as employees donate their time to work on a community project together. The owners also are once again providing incentives for employees to donate by matching any increase in gifts from its employees, by establishing prizes for returning pledge forms early and by offering a day off for first-time gifts of $500 or more.

The United Way of Greater Rochester is just one of the many community non-profit organizations SentrySafe supports. Over the years, the United Way has focused on a prevention as well as intervention model, funding programs that assist those currently affected as well as those that attack root causes—and will spare others future suffering. The
United Way supports solutions that go beyond a quick fix and offer people the opportunity to rebuild and change their lives. SentrySafe is proud to support such a world class agency with a long legacy of success. Together, when SentrySafe, its employees and the community LIVE UNITED, a real difference will be made.

Sentry Safe Featured on the Today Show

2009-01-05T06:22:00.000-08:00

Michelle Franzen a National Correspondent for NBC News interviews Doug Brush, Chairman and Chief Business Development Officer for Sentry Safe.

Fireproof Hard Drive Safe Enclosure

2008-12-15T07:43:00.000-08:00

A devastating fire can destroy your hard drive... and your irreplaceable data. Unlike unprotected media, the Sentry®Safe FIRESAFE® / Waterproof Hard Drive prevents this kind of catastrophic loss by sealing the hard drive unit in a self-contained, injection molded case, thus ensuring computer based information is safe, secure and protected from the ravages of fire and water -- even under extreme conditions.

Selling Safes on Fox Business

2008-11-07T05:50:00.000-08:00

Chairman Doug Brush discusses with Fox Business Analyst Brian Sullivan why purchasing a Safe is a good idea.

Sentry Safe Fireproof Hard Drive Blown Up on The Gadget Show

2008-10-29T12:34:00.000-07:00

On this weeks Gadget Show Suzi Perry and Jon Bentley face a challenge that is all about blowing things up! In the first part they test just how rugged the roughest, toughest external hard drives are.

Sentry® Safe AutoSafe® And John Sileo

2008-10-29T12:07:00.000-07:00

In this episode of The Privacy Project identity theft speaker John Sileo reviews the SentrySafe AutoSafe to help you protect vital pieces of identity and valuables in your car.

Sales Of Home Safes Climb Amid Financial Turmoil

2008-10-29T08:46:00.000-07:00

About the same time Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and the Dow Jones industrial average began plummeting last month, one of the nation's leading sellers of safes started to see an increase in sales.

Safe Sales Skyrocket

2008-10-29T08:38:00.000-07:00

Doug Brush from Sentry Safes in East Rochester says he has seen a major increase in sales- and is not surprised by this trend- "I think it's very understandable,” he said, because people then "get some peace of mind."Brush says safe sales have increased 20-40 percent in the last few weeks. The market for safes typically climbs during bad economic times.

FIRE-SAFE® Waterproof Data Storage Chest

2008-10-21T09:47:00.000-07:00

Model: QA0121

The world's first and only fire resistant and waterproof multi-purpose data protection chest. Allows users to backup data using their own storage devices (devices sold separately). Protects up to 60 CDs and DVDs (in 30 double-sided sleeves). Users connect their laptop or desktop computer via the internal USB port.

Sentry® Safe Fireproof Hard Drive on Tekzilla

2008-10-14T12:11:00.000-07:00

What's the best storage medium for long term storage of data, tape, DVD or thumb drive? Which would stand up best to heat or water that may occur even inside a fire safe in case of a house fire? Maybe it's just that we live in Earthquake and Fire and Flood country (or have family that do) but we love this question, Chris!

watch the video at about 24 minutes in for Robert Heron's response.

Selling Safes on CNN

2008-10-14T11:05:00.000-07:00

In this uncertain economic time, people are investing in safes for protection. CNN's Jeanne Meserve reports.

Link to CNN.COM

Wall Street trouble means big business for local safe company

2008-10-14T09:28:00.000-07:00

Many people store their valuables in safe deposit boxes at their bank. But the financial upheavals of the last week or two have many people thinking beyond that.

Link To NBC

Sales of Safes Grow As Economy Slides

2008-10-14T08:25:00.000-07:00

Afraid cash isn't secure even behind the thick walls of banks, more people are turning to something that's protected money since the days of Jesse James and Bonnie and Clyde

[Link To Video]

School Safety

2008-08-26T09:16:00.000-07:00

College is supposed to be one of the best times in a person’s life. It’s exhilarating as first time students get ready to leave with nerves of meeting people and finding the proper classrooms, while returning students can’t wait to see their friends and visit favored local establishments. With all the excitement, it is easy for students to forget to safely secure digital media, valuables and irreplaceable items.

The preservation and protection of digital assets should be top-of-mind for all college students, especially with the technology and information boom and the increased availability and affordability of computers. For a college student, a computer crash or mishap can be costly, both monetarily and emotionally. In fact, 98 percent of college students have access to the Internet and more than 88 percent use the Internet on a regular monthly basis, downloading music, class files, videos, family photos, and more. It is important that this information is protected. For most, their only means of backup is the hard drive that is built into their computer or hardware system.

“College students are creating knowledge and intellectual capital as well as learning the ins and outs of the world, outside of their parents’ home,” said John Sileo, author of the award-winning book, Stolen Lives: Identity Theft Prevention Made Simple and America’s top identity theft speaker. “It is devastating and costly when that hard work and knowledge is stolen or lost.”

In addition to protecting digital media assets, college students must also consider the personal information that is kept in some of those data files.

“College-aged adults are learning so much as they leave the safety of their parents and home for the first time in their life that we must take responsibility to give them the tools and knowledge necessary to protect and safely secure their vital data from identity theft and computer crashes,” continued Sileo. “Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in America and as much as 30 percent of identity theft is committed within the college age bracket. In the information economy, we have to remember that it is the information itself, in this case the student’s identity, which carries most of the value. ”

When learning about protecting digital media, it is essential to consider the password protection and data management system that can aid in securing a student’s vital information including medical records, passports, social security cards, tax forms, banking information and more.

At SentrySafe, the world’s leader in security storage containers, we are committed to providing consumers with a broad range of safe types, sizes and protection levels to meet their individualized needs – always keeping consumer’s security and safety in mind. SentrySafe offers many solutions to fit consumer’s security requirements, including one of the most critical and timely safety needs ¾ protecting ones digital media from fire, and water disasters. With the help of our research and development team, we are aware of trends, data and statistics regarding crimes, fires, floods, and computer crashes that often times destroy vital documents and valuables or make them vulnerable to theft or robbery.

Today more and more people are backing up digital files, photos and data stored on their computers ¾ for some people their entire life is saved on their hard drive. In 2007 alone, more than $1 billion was spent buying music over the Internet, and more than 42 percent of the college-aged are downloading music to their computers. For students, backing up data can save writing assignments, term papers, photos, vital files and music from disaster. Students must be aware of the chance of hard drive failure and the possibility of a dorm room or house fire or even a flood that may strike when they least expect it. Finally, they need to protect their laptops from being stolen or misused by a roommate, classmate or other visitor to their dorm room or apartment.

Proper planning and preparing is vital. If students follow these tips then they will have a greater chance of securely storing and backing up their digital data and personal files.

Identify and decide which data cannot be lost under any circumstances. Copy valuable files and data onto jump drives, DVD-R or CD-R discs or removable disk drives that connect to systems via their USB port.
Students must routinely back-up their data at least every week.
Students should also consider storing their valuable data and files on a hard drive that is disaster proof. This way if there is ever a flood, fire or computer crash, important data will be protected. This past spring, SentrySafe launched its second-generation 250GB FIRE-SAFE/Waterproof Hard Drive, perfect for backing up data and documents protecting it from potential fire and water damage.
Use a scanner to make digital copies of important term papers and personal documents, including birth certificates, car loans, social security cards, tax forms, etc. Save them as PDF files and copy them to a folder on your fire-resistant, waterproof external hard drive.
Protect all portable data devices (laptops, BlackBerrys, iPhones, hard drives, thumb drives, etc.) from theft by locking them in a fire-resistant/waterproof safe or locking filing cabinet.

For more information on this article or SentrySafe products, please visit http://www.sentrysafe.com/.

Sentry® Safe Fireproof Hard Drive on G4 Attack Of The Show

2008-08-11T12:28:00.000-07:00

Kevin and Olivia of Attack Of The Show demonstrate the Fire-Safe® Waterproof 250GB HARD DRIVE.

The Sentry® Safe Fire-Safe® Waterproof HARD DRIVE is the world's first and only fire resistant and waterproof hard drive. Direct USB connectivity to a laptop or desktop computer. Enables backup of critical data in the event of crash, computer failure and fire and water-related disasters. Contains a One-Touch 4 Mini Hard Drive from Maxtor. Encased hard drive is protected from dust and dirt.

Sentry® Safe USB Data Storage Chest on ABC TechBITS

2008-08-11T12:17:00.000-07:00

Thomas the Tech Guy demonstrates the Sentry® Safe A0121 FIRE-SAFE® Waterproof Data Storage Chest. The world's first and only fire resistant and waterproof multi-purpose data protection chest. Allows users to backup data using their own storage devices (devices sold separately). Protects up to 60 CDs and DVDs (in 30 double-sided sleeves). Users connect their laptop or desktop computer via the internal USB port.

Fireproof Hard Drive Burn Test

2008-07-18T12:21:00.000-07:00

Kurt the Cyberguy introduces a fireproof hard drive designed to store and save important information.

SentrySafe AS-1 autosafe®

2008-07-08T17:11:00.000-07:00

Safeguard your valuables from "smash and grab" crimes.

The SentrySafe AS-1 autosafe protects your personal property from opportunistic crimes. This compact, one-piece unit fits neatly under a seat or in the trunk out of sight from crooks looking to make a quick "hit". The unit is designed with a high security key lock and is fastened with a theft-resistant steel cable.

The AS-1 autosafe is the ideal solution for cars, trucks, RVs or boats providing peace of mind, security-on-the-go and protection against losses arising from vandalism and theft.

Hard Drive Safe Product Testing Video

2008-05-28T12:05:00.000-07:00

This video demonstrates the ease of use and protection you get with the world's first and affordable Fire Resistant and Waterproof hard drive.

You can purchase the Fire-Safe® Waterproof HARD DRIVE - 250GB Model: QA0005 from http://www.sentrysafe.com/.