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2012: A Good Year for SIA
Recently, the Security Industry Association (SIA) published its 2012 Annual Report, which gave SIA Members insight into an outstanding year for SIA. In 2012, SIA grew stronger, added new members, strengthened its government outreach, provided strong educational opportunities and expanded its standards activity. An association such as ours is only as good as its membership,…
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SNMP for Network Security Devices? Now We’re Talking.
It’s inescapable. These days, any piece of technology introduced into an environment must be able to run on the enterprise network. Moreover, devices can’t just “sit there” on the network; they must actively communicate with other devices plugged into it. As the bright lines between security and IT become more and more blurred, it is…
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SIA Standards to Launch SNMP MIB Project
Effort will define security-specific set of attributes SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association Standards Committee has announced plans to begin work on a security industry-specific set of attributes relating to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Information Base (MIB) structure. As the number of security devices that are hosted on an enterprise network…
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SIA Releases Cloud and Mobility White Paper
SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) Standards Committee this week announced the first deliverable of the recently formed Cloud and Mobility Working Group: an industry white paper that explores the impact of the cloud on physical security. The paper, available as a free download from the SIA website, defines the group’s vision…
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SIA Member Profile: John Convy, Sr. VP Strategic Alliances, BRS Labs
How did you get into the security business? I sold the software company I started 10 years earlier, and had a 3 year non-compete agreement with the buyers, so I was looking around for new challenges when 9/11 happened. An friend of mine had just been appointed Deputy Sergeant at Arms for Security at the…
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SIA Member Profile: Kevin Kozlowski, Vice President, XTec Incorporated
How did you get into the Security Industry? In the early days, there were only a few agencies working with smart cards. Some were looking at the financial applications, some for portable data storage, some for multi-applications, others for transit. The baseline that came out of almost each program was if implemented correctly, the smart…
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Insights from SIA’s Chairman: D-Block Spectrum for First Responder Communications
The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 brought to challenges first responders face with electronic communications to the forefront. The lack of reliable interoperable communications led to fire fighters not being aware that police officers had received orders to evacuate the second World Trade tower after the first collapsed. Fire fighters lost their lives because…
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RFID and a Layered Security Approach
“In today’s climate, one would be hard pressed to argue that the safety and security of the children and educators in our public school system is not a compelling governmental interest. Mandatory identification badges issued to all students, staff and visitors further the school’s interest in providing a safe and secure environment for everyone on…
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Security Industry Association Releases SIA OSDP Protocol
Protocol allows devices to work together SILVER SPRING, MD – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced the release of version 2.1.5 of the SIA Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) specification. The SIA OSDP is a communication protocol that allows devices, such as card readers, control panels or other security management systems to work together.…
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SIA Submits Comments on FIPS 201-2
Draft Still Needs Tuning for High Security and Physical Access Systems Interoperability SILVER SPRING, MD — Today, the Security Industry Association (SIA) submitted important new comments to NIST regarding the revised draft of FIPS 201-2, the standard for Personal Identity Verification (PIV). SIAs PIV Working Group contributed comments and proposed improvements to make the PIV card more…
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