Security Industry Association

MAY 18, 2022

Gena Alexa, Amanda Conley, Delia McGarry, Diane Stephens and Bobby Varma will be honored for their leadership and contributions in biometrics and security at the 2022 SIA GovSummit. The 2022 awardees, who will be honored at the 2022 SIA GovSummit , SIA’s annual government security conference, are: Gena Alexa, CEO and Founder, Dignari.

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Security Industry Association

MARCH 17, 2022

Security Industry Association (SIA) members who actively participate in or are considering participation in the federal marketplace should pay close attention to funding amounts since it could impact future procurement opportunities. billion until FY 2022; figures below indicate which relevant-to-SIA-members grant programs compose the $3.6

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Security Industry Association

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The past SIA board chair and longtime association member will be recognized for his dedicated security industry service and leadership at the 2022 SIA Honors Night. The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Scott Schafer as the 2022 recipient of the George R. 16, during the 2022 SIA Honors Night reception.

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NexusTek

APRIL 19, 2023

Chief among these is the unarguable fact that financial services organizations are consistently a top target for cyber threat actors, a reality that exists in tension with the #1 criterion customers use to evaluate financial institutions: security 1. link] (2022, December 20). Flashpoint year in review: 2022 financial threat landscape.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

8: Disaster Recovery Solutions with AWS managed services, Part 3: Multi-Site Active/Passive Disaster recovery posts are always popular, and this post by Brent and Dhruv is no exception. Figure 2: AI-based intelligent document processing engine Check it out! #8: Invoking Asynchronous External APIs architecture Check it out! #3:

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NexusTek

JANUARY 4, 2023

Many consumers now make buying decisions based on a company’s ESG performance, and they have become shrewd evaluators of the authenticity of a firm’s stated commitment to sustainability. 2022, December 5). 2022, November 2014). 2022, September 29). Remote work security statistics in 2022. 2022, December 7).

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Security Industry Association

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

On September 16, 2022, DHS issued a Fiscal Year 2022 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for SLCGP with applications due within 60 days. CISA has developed goals and objectives for the SLCGP , including assessing and evaluating systems and capabilities and building a cybersecurity workforce. In FY 2022, $183.5

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everbridge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The NOAA stated that, in 2022 alone, the total cost of winter storms in the United States was 8.7 According to the European Environment Agency , “Between 1980 and 2022, weather- and climate-related extremes caused economic losses of assets estimated at EUR 650 billion in the EU Member States, of which EUR 59.4 billion in 2022.”

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Security Industry Association

AUGUST 2, 2022

On July 27, the Chips and Science Act of 2022 cleared its final hurdle with passage in the U.S. Testing, Evaluation and Standards. These activities are critical to establishing benchmarks developers need to continue to improve technologies both for government and commercial use. Provisions Support Security Supply Chain, U.S.

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Security Industry Association

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Nominations Committee will present candidates for consideration to the SIA membership on March 22, 2022, at The Advance , SIA’s annual membership meeting held during ISC West. Board responsibilities include: Staying up to date on and actively supporting SIA initiatives, programs and goals.

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Security Industry Association

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the final weeks of 2022, Congress unveiled, and quickly passed, a $1.7 billion in nondefense discretionary spending and $858 billion in defense funding, a nearly 10 percent increase over fiscal year 2022. percent above fiscal year 2022. percent increase over fiscal year 2022. billion more than in fiscal year 2022.

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LAN Infotech

JANUARY 29, 2022

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently published a new safeguards regulation incorporating most of the recommended revisions to the 2002 GLBA guidelines for safeguarding client information, on 10th January 2022. Risk assessment is meant to evaluate possible vulnerabilities to client data that might result in an illegal breach.

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National Fire Protection Association

APRIL 4, 2023

Today, NFPA released the NFPA Standards Council appeal decision on Tentative Interim Amendment (TIA) 1689, upholding the appeal and overturning the Technical Committee on Emergency Responders Occupational Health (TC) ballot results - issuing TIA 1689 on the 2022 edition of NFPA 1582, Standard on Comprehensive Medical Program for Fire Departments.

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Security Industry Association

MARCH 15, 2022

As the Virginia General Assembly wrapped up its 2022 regular session last week, it sent a bill to Gov. In fact, the NIST Face Recognition Vendor Test program has become the world standard for objective third-party scientific evaluation, which provides an apples-to-apples comparison of the performance of facial recognition technologies.

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Security Industry Association

OCTOBER 7, 2022

ISC East 2022 is coming up Nov. When evaluating enterprise security risks, a lot of attention is paid to entry points for people going in and out of a building as well as email and digital traffic flowing through the organization. Speaker: Dr. Alexander Sappok, CEO, RaySecur, Inc. Thursday, Nov. 17, 11:30 a.m. – The mission of?the

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Security Industry Association

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Dan Moceri has always been a key driver of the security industry,” said Scott Schafer, principal at SMS Advisors, former SIA Board of Directors chair and 2022 Lippert Award honoree. “He He also invested his time and has given back to the industry in many ways.” He has also been highly engaged in industry workforce development efforts.

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NexusTek

AUGUST 31, 2022

August 31, 2022. times more likely to be actively seeking another job 1. Reduced Professional Efficacy: A diminished sense of professional efficacy is the self-evaluative element of burnout. 2022, March 4). READ TIME: 3 MIN. Recognizing and Preventing IT Employee Burnout. CONTACT US. References: 1,6. 2020, March 13).

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Security Industry Association

MARCH 15, 2022

As the Virginia General Assembly wrapped up its 2022 regular session last week, it sent a bill to Gov. In fact, the NIST Face Recognition Vendor Test program has become the world standard for objective third-party scientific evaluation, which provides an apples-to-apples comparison of the performance of facial recognition technologies.

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National Fire Protection Association

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This is the first in a series of blogs aimed at providing an overview of the basics of fire sprinkler design calculations (demand calculations) using the density/area design method found in the 2022 edition of NFPA 13, Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems. Evaluation of existing systems has separate criteria.

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Castellan

JUNE 9, 2022

Defining Important Business Services (IBS) and Impact Tolerances were the first major milestones with initial compliance dates of March 31, 2022. As we see feedback and trends emerging, it will be important to understand how these will influence mapping and testing activities. Let’s also look at what’s on the horizon: 2.

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BMC

MAY 24, 2022

A 2022 survey by WTW found that 86 percent of the employers surveyed are putting a focus on the mental health of their employees and forty-eight percent of respondents are planning or considering implementing an organization-wide behavioral health strategy and action plan. Businesses are taking note, too.

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NexusTek

MARCH 23, 2022

March 23, 2022. Reducing routine task load is an important retention strategy to consider because when such tasks are excessive, employees may: experience boredom and disengagement; need to work extra hours; make mistakes due to feeling rushed; and have less time for higher-value activities. READ TIME: 4 MIN.

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LogisManager

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

While banks and financial institutions vary in size, culture, or clientele, their overlap in the value they provide means we can evaluate common examples of risks to their reputation. LogicManager’s global risk scoring criteria helps you take a root-cause approach, fostering consistency on how you evaluate risks across the entire bank.

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NexusTek

AUGUST 17, 2022

August 17, 2022. Humans tend to evaluate others’ trustworthiness by observing their actions. You might set aside time during meetings for social chat, or even schedule purely social virtual activities to help team members connect. 2022, February 16). READ TIME: 4 MIN. Leading Remote Teams Effectively: 8 Do’s and 2 Don’ts.

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Security Industry Association

MARCH 6, 2023

As organizations are seeing more and more cyberthreats from ransomware attacks, supply chain disruption and growing attack surface on physical security devices, organizations are actively looking at converging the two groups under a chief security officer.

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LogisManager

MAY 9, 2023

For those who take a forward-looking approach to risk, it is evident that SVB did not practice ERM for most of 2022. They evaluate their vendor and partner communities to identify the third parties they depend on the most and map them to the business risks, controls, and testing that rely on them. Imagine the contagion there.

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Advancing Analytics

MAY 14, 2022

Last week, Advancing Analytics attended BIBA 2022. The impact of that of this forces customers to evaluate their level of cover and as the cost of living increases, so does the risk of customers cancelling/defaulting on payments. The Insurance sector is ready for disruption, and it will be AI that causes the disruption.

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Fusion Risk Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

According to research performed by Ethisphere’s Ethics Index , “the listed 2022 World’s Most Ethical Companies honorees outperformed a comparable index of large-cap companies by 24.6 percentage points from January 2017 to January 2022.” So, how do you tie back the value of your program to the company’s bottom line?

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Reciprocity

MARCH 24, 2022

Internal fraudsters might engage in fraudulent activity for years by taking advantage of their “trusted insider” status. The collapse of Enron, along with several other corporate frauds circa 2001, led to enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2022. Fraud is often difficult to detect. What Is the Cost of Corporate Fraud?

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everbridge

MAY 2, 2023

It should also include plans for responding to and recovering from events, as well as a system for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of risk management measures. How Everbridge helps: Once a potential risk has been identified, Everbridge can help organizations develop and activate response plans quickly and efficiently.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA) was the first federal cyber breach notification act which was signed into law on the 1st of March 2022, by President Biden. The Rule applies from 1 May 2022. Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act.

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Solutions Review

JANUARY 25, 2023

This chain of activities results in an increasingly complex, geographically vast, and multi-tiered supply network. Aron Brand, CTO at CTERA After many years of near-zero interest rates and workforce shortages, the tide has turned, and in 2022 we have seen the start of a dramatic shift in the business landscape.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In fact, SlashNext’s latest State of Phishing report revealed a 1,265 percent increase in phishing emails since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. These activities must happen in 2024, because threat actors are in fact already targeting encrypted data, by taking a “steal and store now to decrypt later” approach.

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Solutions Review

JANUARY 28, 2024

In fact, SlashNext’s latest State of Phishing report revealed a 1,265 percent increase in phishing emails since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. These activities must happen in 2024, because threat actors are in fact already targeting encrypted data, by taking a “steal and store now to decrypt later” approach.

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