Data Center Advisory Board
The Security Industry Association (SIA) Data Center Advisory Board develops information and guidelines related to security deployments, facilitates collaboration between the security industry and data center security practitioners, and works with the SIA Government Relations team on legislative and regulatory issues, where appropriate.
Retail Security Advisory Board
SIA’s Retail Security Advisory Board brings together retailers and security solutions providers to foster collaboration, develop best practices and address key challenges such as organized retail crime.
International Relations Committee
The SIA International Relations Committee works to internationally represent and advocate for SIA members in the security industry. The committee serves as an authoritative resource for SIA members and their partners in priority international security markets beginning with the security market in Latin America. The committee is the oversight body charged with developing and executing SIA’s international outreach strategies and programming objectives designed to promote international cooperation and marketing opportunities between SIA members and various international security companies and security industry trade associations.
Key committee efforts include:
- Presenting webinar series and white papers
- Hosting committee and SIA networking programs
- Supporting SIA’s RISE and Women in Security Forum communities in the region
- Mentoring next-generation security leaders
- Conducting outreach to colleges and universities
- Providing model program templates to SIA members operating in aligned markets
- Serving as spokesperson for SIA’s activities and about given markets to media, independent research firms and the community
Meet the Committee Members
- Chair: Mariana Ramírez, regional marketing manager, Latin America, Axis Communications
- Vice Chair: Vanesa Cabral, LATAM director, Convergint
- Immediate Past Chair: Jason de Souza, managing director, LATAM and the Caribbean, Genetec
- Johana Arias, sales director, Latam, Milestone Systems
- Virginia Baez, regional sales manager, Central America and the Caribbean, Tyco Security Solutions, Johnson Controls
- Juan Pablo Coletti, technology director, Prosegur
- Giovanni Cordero, regional marketing manager, Motorola Solutions
- Humberto de la Vega, CEO, SIASA
- Juan Pablo Forno, vice president of sales, inner range Americas and Wesco Fire Security Solutions, Wesco
- Carolina Restelli, regional marketing manager LATAM, HID
- Mauricio Swain, chief revenue officer, Grupo Kabat
- Tino Urbino, national enterprise account executive West USA, Mexico, Commend Americas
Utilities Advisory Board
About the Advisory Board
The SIA Utilities Advisory Board was created to provide resources that enhance the security and resilience of utility infrastructure, including electric, water, nuclear and other critical utility systems, particularly through the effective use of physical security and cybersecurity technologies. The advisory board brings together manufacturers, integrators, consultants, practitioners and other stakeholders to develop analysis, recommendations and forward-looking guidance addressing the unique physical and cyber risks facing the utility sector.
Throughout the year, the SIA Utilities Advisory Board will work to:
- Ensure alignment with industry standards and emerging trends while supporting SIA membership updates in accordance with applicable regulations and deliver summarized reports
- Foster strategic collaboration on joint projects with SIA’s advisory boards and committees on artificial intelligence, data center security, cybersecurity and drone security
- Expand representation of end users and international stakeholders to ensure global relevance and practical applicability
- Incorporate a broader range of insights and real‑world case studies from board members, industry practitioners and external subject‑matter experts to ground recommendations in operational experience and emerging best practices
In 2026, the Utilities Advisory Board is working on projects pertaining to:
- Insider threat in utilities
- Zero-trust risks and solutions
- Trend and risk outlooks
- Post-quantum computing
- Counter-UAS for critical infrastructure
- AI in utilities
Video: Get to Know SIA’s Utilities Advisory Board
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Public Safety Working Group
The Public Safety Working Group focuses on improving the safety, security and sustainability of communities. The group is comprised of SIA members, security practitioners and first responders who combine their experiences and insights to develop resources regarding the effective and responsible implementation of security technologies.
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The CSI MasterFormat Working Group seeks to ensure that the MasterFormat construction specifications for security and life safety equipment, especially those contained in Division 28, are appropriate for current technologies and uses.
MasterFormat, from the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and Construction Specifications Canada, provides an organizational structure that is an important tool in the construction and architecture and engineering fields. The document’s Division 28 lists titles and numbers for “Electronic Safety and Security,” but that section had not been fully updated since 2004. In 2014-15, the MasterFormat Division 28 Working Group produced a set of recommendations to overhaul Division 28 to reflect the current state of security technology. Those recommendations were incorporated into the 2016 edition of MasterFormat.
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The Data Privacy Advisory Board provides information and best practices to help SIA members handle sensitive data in a safe and secure manner to protect the personally identifiable information of their employees, partners and customers from potential abuses, breaches and misuses.
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