A system comprising: a security system that monitors a secured area (R) that includes a plurality of partitions ; a control panel of the security system that is physically located proximate to the secured area; and a remote interface device of the security system, wherein, at least one of the plurality of partitions is designated as a highly secure one of the plurality of partitions in a database device, wherein, when the remote interface device receives first user input with instructions to execute a remote global action in connection with the security system, the remote interface device accesses the database device to identify a first group of the plurality of partitions that includes all of the plurality of partitions except for the highly secure one of the plurality of partitions and transmits a first instruction signal for the remote global action to the control panel directing the control panel to execute the remote global action in connection with each of the first group of the plurality of partitions, wherein, when the control panel receives the first instruction signal from the remote interface device, the control panel executes the remote global action in connection with each of the first group of the plurality of partitions or transmits the first instruction signal to each of the first group of the plurality of partitions or to security devices that monitor each of the first group of the plurality of partitions, and wherein, when the control panel locally receives second user input with instructions to execute a local global action that is the same or different from the remote global action, the control panel executes the local global action in connection with each of a second group of the plurality of partitions that is identified by an installer of the security system or a master user of the security system instead of in connection with the first group of the plurality of partitions identified by the remote interface device . a security system that monitors a secured area (R) that includes a plurality of partitions ; a control panel of the security system that is physically located proximate to the secured area; and a remote interface device of the security system, wherein, at least one of the plurality of partitions is designated as a highly secure one of the plurality of partitions in a database device, wherein, when the remote interface device receives first user input with instructions to execute a remote global action in connection with the security system, the remote interface device accesses the database device to identify a first group of the plurality of partitions that includes all of the plurality of partitions except for the highly secure one of the plurality of partitions and transmits a first instruction signal for the remote global action to the control panel directing the control panel to execute the remote global action in connection with each of the first group of the plurality of partitions, wherein, when the control panel receives the first instruction signal from the remote interface device, the control panel executes the remote global action in connection with each of the first group of the plurality of partitions or transmits the first instruction signal to each of the first group of the plurality of partitions or to security devices that monitor each of the first group of the plurality of partitions, and wherein, when the control panel locally receives second user input with instructions to execute a local global action that is the same or different from the remote global action, the control panel executes the local global action in connection with each of a second group of the plurality of partitions that is identified by an installer of the security system or a master user of the security system instead of in connection with the first group of the plurality of partitions identified by the remote interface device . <EOS>