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Security Industry Association and International Biometrics + Identity Association Oppose Adding Extraneous Prohibitions on TSA Use of Facial Biometrics in Potential FAA Measure

Security Industry Association

Air travelers have long been required by law to present valid IDs at security checkpoints, subject to inspection for authenticity and checks against flight information. Before the technology, TSA personnel visually compared the photo on each ID with the person presenting it to verify that they match.

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Mastering Effective Cybersecurity Research: Going From Data to Actionable Insights

FS-ISAC

One of my main duties included briefing the Commander on the latest research/threat intel on cyber domain adversary activity. I quickly realized I had trained him to ‘go to his happy place’ and ignore me because I was briefing him on generic threat activity so it was not anything he would ever make a decision on.

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Hot Work: More than Welding, Cutting, and Burning

National Fire Protection Association

This can include activities such as welding, cutting, brazing, soldering, grinding, and other similar processes that generate heat and sparks. There is oxygen present in all spaces where workers perform hot work — the air we breathe is made of 21 percent oxygen under normal conditions. What is hot work?

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Transportation Worker Identity Credential: Reviving the Qualified Technology List With Simple Self-Certification Approval Process

Security Industry Association

A TWIC card may be subject to visual inspection at a port point of entry or be electronically authenticated and validated to prove that the TWIC is valid, has not expired and is being presented by the individual to whom the TWIC was issued. These readers are being deployed by maritime operators to strengthen physical access security.

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2024 SIA Board of Directors Nominations Now Open

Security Industry Association

The Nominations Committee will present candidates for consideration to the SIA membership on April 9, 2024, 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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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

An experienced civil engineer could evaluate some of that by eye, but much of the rest is hidden and only exposed once the building collapses. Many of the news media that have reported the disaster have presented it as the result of inescapable terrestrial forces. Earthquake disaster risk assessment and evaluation for Turkey.

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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.