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Security Industry Association Forms Counter-UAS Working Group

Security Industry Association

The Security Industry Association (SIA) has established a Counter-UAS Working Group , which held its initial meeting during ISC West 2023. The Biden administration has published a plan to address this concern, the Domestic Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems National Action Plan.

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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

The Security Industry Association (SIA) and the International Biometrics + Identity Association (IBIA) have urged Congress to oppose inclusion in the FAA Reauthorization measure of an extraneous provision seeking to prohibit the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from using facial recognition technology. SILVER SPRING, Md. –

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Disaster Recovery Solutions with AWS-Managed Services, Part 3: Multi-Site Active/Passive

AWS Disaster Recovery

The post also introduces a multi-site active/passive approach. The multi-site active/passive approach is best for customers who have business-critical workloads with higher availability requirements over other active/passive environments. You would just need to create the records and specify failover for the routing policy.

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Security Industry Association Names Wayne Dorris as SIA Cybersecurity Advisory Board Chair

Security Industry Association

The Security Industry Association (SIA) has appointed Wayne Dorris of Axis Communications to serve as the new chair of SIA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Board. Wayne’s cybersecurity and industry expertise will provide immense value to the CAB’s efforts to help SIA improve the cyber-resiliency of the physical security industry.

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Security Industry Association Opens Nominations for the 2023 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards

Security Industry Association

The globally recognized program will honor innovative women guiding the biometrics and security industry during the 2023 SIA GovSummit. The recipients of this year’s Women in Biometrics Awards will be honored at the 2023 SIA GovSummit , SIA’s annual government security conference. Learn more and register to attend here.

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Securing Mass Gathering Events: A Simple Design Framework That Considers the Air Domain

Security Industry Association

Planning and executing a mass gathering event is challenging, requires extensive coordination and can be time-consuming – it is also one of the most important security and safety actions you can take when it comes to protecting the public in dense crowd environments. So where do we start? Rest assured it will.

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SIA New Member Profile: Burns Engineering

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Burns Engineering is a nationally respected provider of specialized engineering services, founded and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. SIA spoke with Danielle Tabachnick, senior security specialist at Burns, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.