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SIA New Member Profile: Elite Interactive Solutions

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Elite Interactive Solutions offers property and casualty risk mitigation through its remote guarding and monitoring solutions. 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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Amplifying School Security With Gunshot Detection Systems

Security Industry Association

The Limitations of Current Response Systems During gun violence incidents, knowing exactly where the incident is happening in real time is critical so that building occupants can quickly get to safety and first responders can rapidly mitigate the threat. He later shot 47 people that he locked inside of an academic hall.

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Security Industry Association to Present Bonnie Michelman With 2021 SIA Insightful Practitioner Award

Security Industry Association

Under Michelman’s direction, Mass General won the Lindberg Bell Award for the nation’s finest health care security program in 1999, 2007 and 2018. She also serves on the advisory council for Hostage US. SIA is proud to announce Bonnie Michelman as the 2021 recipient of the SIA Insightful Practitioner Award,” said SIA CEO Don Erickson.

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Make Rapid-Fire Reporting Standards Work for You

FS-ISAC

Specified goals vary by jurisdiction, but the main aims are to be able to leverage public sector resources in mitigation and attribution, as well as to encourage more robust operational resiliency. 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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‘Countdown to Zero Day’ By Kim Zetter – Book Review

Plan B Consulting

One of the scary events that this book described was the Aurora Generator Test in 2007, run by the Idaho National Laboratory. If we know that this type of attack is possible, we should make sure that we have considered the risk and we have suitable mitigation measures in place.

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‘Countdown to Zero Day’ By Kim Zetter – Book Review

Plan B Consulting

One of the scary events that this book described was the Aurora Generator Test in 2007, run by the Idaho National Laboratory. If we know that this type of attack is possible, we should make sure that we have considered the risk and we have suitable mitigation measures in place.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Reality: There may indeed be villains, although the 'therapeutic community' that prevails in the aftermath tends to mitigate their effect, but most people who act selflessly and in favour of others are not strictly heroes but are just doing their jobs as best they can. There is thus no reason why BCM should not apply to public bodies.