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
- Serving as an influential voice to the media and independent research firms about given markets and serving as a spokesperson for SIA’s activities online and offline
- Mentoring next-generation security leaders
- Supporting the development of SIA’s RISE and Women in Security Forum communities in the region
Meet the Committee Members
- Chair: Jason de Souza, managing director, Latin America and the Caribbean. Genetec
- Vice Chair: Mauricio Swain, chief revenue officer, Grupo Kabat
- Virginia Baez, regional sales manager, Central America and the Caribbean, Tyco Security Solutions, Johnson Controls
- Vanessa Cabral, partnership business development director, LATAM Supply Chain Director, LATAM Hispanics, Convergint
- Juan Pablo Coletti, technology director, Prosegur
- Giovanni Cordero, regional marketing manager, Motorola Solutions
- Humberto de la Vega, LATAM and MX sales director, STid
- Juan Pablo Forno, senior director of security solutions for Latin America and the Caribbean, Wesco Anixter
- Mariana Ramirez, marketing manager LATAM, HID
- Carolina Restelli, regional marketing manager LATAM, HID
- Tino Urbino, national enterprise account executive West USA, Mexico, Commend Americas
Utilities Advisory Board
SIA’s Utilities Advisory Board demonstrates thought leadership on compliance and technology topics of interest to professionals managing security at utility facilities. It develops recommendations and guidance for the physical security and cybersecurity of utilities infrastructure, offers formal responses to security rules and guidance proposed by regulatory agencies, shares knowledge with related industries and develops content for SIA events and publications.
Autonomous Solutions Working Group
About the Working Group
SIA’s Autonomous Solutions Working Group (formerly the AI, Drones and Robotics Interest Group) brings together members of the security industry, end users, technology experts and other interested parties to promote best practices regarding the use of robots in security, develop research, offer guidance on legislative and regulatory matters and enhance communication and collaboration.
Working Group Goals
- Equip SIA members with resources to understand, share and implement security and facility solutions that feature autonomous functionality
- Provide a member forum to discuss solutions, case studies, applications and opportunities
- Advocate for responsible use of artificial intelligence- (AI-) enabled autonomous solutions, whether they are fixed or mobile
Join the Working Group
Want to get more involved in autonomous solutions efforts? Join the Autonomous Solutions Working Group! We’re looking for SIA members who:
- Strive to provide the most up-to-date solutions to their base in order to provide the best solutions and capture competitive advantages
- Are interested in where AI-enabled solutions are headed
- Want to influence manufacturers’ design and applications
Industry Relations Committees
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.
Keep Reading »CSI MasterFormat Working Group
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.
Keep Reading »Data Privacy Advisory Board
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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