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In Memoriam: Charles Darsch, Director, Corporate Relations, System Sensor

Security Industry Association

Darsch, an active participant in SIA for many years, proudly served in the U.S. Lippert Memorial Award , and he was named to the Security Sales & Integration Industry Hall of Fame in 2007. Army and the U.S. Army Reserve Military Police during the Korean War, and his first job out of college was as a sales engineer for Pollack Corp.

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Amplifying School Security With Gunshot Detection Systems

Security Industry Association

Nearly 60% of active shooter incidents at educational institutions since Columbine in 1999 have occurred in high schools, and about 21% have occurred in middle schools or junior high schools. At Virginia Tech in 2007, an active shooter managed to go undetected for two and a half hours after his first two shots were fired in a dormitory.

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SIA New Member Profile: Elite Interactive Solutions

Security Industry Association

Aria Kozak, founder and CEO, Elite Interactive Solutions Aria Kozak : I founded Elite Interactive Solutions in 2007, and for that I am referred to as “The Father of Remote Guarding.” SIA spoke with Aria Kozak, founder and CEO of Elite Interactive Solutions, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

Its antidotes are thought, reasoning, action, activism, and the application of ethics and morality. 2007, Ambraseys and Bilham 2011) suggest that the principal cause of earthquake disasters is corruption, which weakens or prevents defensive anti-seismic measures. Register 2007. However, two analyses (Escaleras et al.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Civil protection, when it works, is a form of participatory democracy, in which the citizen has an active stake in his or her own safety and security. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

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Make Rapid-Fire Reporting Standards Work for You

FS-ISAC

A robust incident response plan will include, but is not limited to: Procedures on how to identify and detect suspicious activity related to networks, hardware, and other equipment. For example, a public-private exercise in 2007 simulated a pandemic where approximately 40% of the workforce had to go remote.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Whereas it is not possible to stop earthquakes, it is possible to construct anti-seismic buildings and to organize human activities in such a way as to minimize the risk of death. Activism is much more common than fatalism (this is the so-called "therapeutic community"). Reality: Survivors rapidly get to work on the clear-up.