QSecurity Industries

About Us

QSecurity is the new name for a decades-old security technologies and education company headquartered in Nicholasville, Kentucky and owned by Clay Miller and Wes Day. Staff includes industry veterans Deanna DeBorde, Frieda Ellis, Ellis Gibbs, Ryan Griffeth, April Truitt, Lisa Young & others – and is ever expanding. QSecurity Products, QSecurity Education, and QTactical are all divisions of QSecurity Industries, the parent company. Over the years, Lockmasters®, LSI and LTI have all called 1014 S. Main Street, Nicholasville, Kentucky home. The 22,000 sq. ft. facility is now the headquarters for all QSecurity Industries divisions – as well as NL Lock administration, sales, assembly and quality control..

Clay Miller and Nick Gartner

QSecurity & NL Lock

What’s the connection?

Legendary inventor Klaus “Nick” Gartner and Clay Miller have worked both together and separately in the high-security safe lock industry since the late 1960s when Harry C. Miller hired Nick at Sargent & Greenleaf in Rochester, NY. Nick eventually left S&G to found LaGard, where he developed many industry firsts: the first electronic safe lock, the HPC 1200 key machine, the 2200 key lock for safes, the SmartGard, and many others.

With Nick’s health declining, in early 2023 he and Clay Miller entered discussions regarding the future of NL Lock. In late August, they inked a deal to transfer the company assets to QSecurity Industries. On September 5, 2023, Nick passed away, knowing his brainchild had a secure future with an industry veteran and friend who would take his innovations forward.

WHO is QSecurity?

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QSecurity is owned by Clay Miller and Wes Day. Staff includes industry veterans Deanna DeBorde, Frieda Ellis, Ellis Gibbs, Ryan Griffeth, April Truitt, Lisa Young, & others and is ever expanding. QSecurity Products, QSecurity Education, and QTactical are all divisions of QSecurity Industries, the parent company.

WHAT is QSecurity?

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QSecurity is the new name for a decades-old security technologies and education company headquartered in Nicholasville, KY. QSecurity began as Lockmasters, Inc.®, the locksmith education company founded by Harry C. Miller, Jim Taylor and Leonard Singer in 1955. Clay Miller and his team took over operations from Harry Miller in 1981, expanding into tool and equipment sales to the trade in 1982. The following decade saw the birth of LockNet, SAVTA and the X0-7. In 2005, Mark Miller took over the tool & equipment division, moving it into a purpose-built location just up the road on John Watts Dr. Ever eager for expansion, Mark subsequently took over the Lockmasters® Education Division in 2013. Clay Miller and his engineering team remained in the S. Main Street location, focused on R&D for the clandestine world as LTI: Lockmasters® Technologies, Inc. and QTactical. Just prior to his passing in 2020, Clay Miller’s son Mark sold Lockmasters® to the Dominus Group. As a contingency of the sale, the Miller family was compelled to relinquish their rights to the Lockmasters® trademark FOREVER. LTI was forced to rebrand, and QSecurity was born.

WHY QSecurity?

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The Millers have long been loyal James Bond fans. Who doesn’t remember “Q,” the Quartermaster of MI6, the British Secret Service? One of the most enduring characters throughout the Bond franchise, Q headed up Q Branch, the R&D division which supplied Bond with a stunning array of offensive and defensive gadgets over the years. When a rebrand became inevitable, the incorporation of “Q” seemed a novel but logical choice.

WHERE is QSecurity?

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Over the years, Lockmasters®, LSI and LTI have all called 1014 S. Main Street, Nicholasville, Kentucky home. The 22,000 sq. ft. facility is now the headquarters for all QSecurity Industries divisions – as well as NL Lock. Conveniently located in the heart of Nicholasville, Kentucky, QSecurity Industries is proud to have LockNet, Sargent & Greenleaf, Lockmasters, Inc.® and MBAUSA as local neighbors.