SIA New Member Profile: Bastille
New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Bastille is a leader in enterprise threat detection through software-defined radio. The company has offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Herndon, Virginia; Santa Cruz, California; and San Francisco, California. SIA spoke with Justin Fry, chief marketing officer at Bastille, about the company’s history and offerings and the security industry. Tell us…
Keep Reading »2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards Profile: Diane Stephens
2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards winner Diane Stephens is a biometrics standards coordinator at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Stephens, who has worked in biometrics close to 20 years, entered the field relatively unfamiliar with biometrics technology when she joined the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) United States Visitor and…
Keep Reading »2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards Profile: Amanda Conley
2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards winner Amanda Conley is the Human Capital Branch chief within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) – formerly known as the U.S. Visitor and Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program. In her role with OBIM, Conley focuses on providing and enabling biometric and…
Keep Reading »2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards Profile: Bobby Varma
2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards winner Bobby Varma is co-founder and CEO of Princeton Identity, a leading biometric technology company. Varma, who has a proven track record as an executive in the biometrics arena for 15 years of driving sales and developing products, was drawn to the industry by her passion for technology. “I…
Keep Reading »2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards Profile: Gena Alexa
2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards winner Gena Alexa is the CEO of Dignari, LLC, which she founded in 2013 to provide program strategy, human-centered design, emerging technology and data analytics services to the federal government. Alexa, who has held key technical and management roles in the delivery of strategic government biometrics programs for more…
Keep Reading »2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards Profile: Delia McGarry
2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards winner Delia McGarry – a senior director at IDEMIA National Security Solutions (NSS) – has 26 years of experience in digital image processing and 20 years in biometrics, including experience in federal, industry and academic spaces. McGarry got her start in the industry while earning her master’s degree at…
Keep Reading »Video: Top 10 Business KPIs for Security Integrators
Want to improve your security integration business? We’re back with a new video in our SIA Integration Insights series, designed for owners and management and any entrepreneur who is thinking of opening their own security integrator/security dealer/security installing company business. In this video, guest John Nemerofsky, chief operating officer at SAGE Integration, covers the key…
Keep Reading »SIA New Member Profile: Total Security Solutions
New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Total Security Solutions (TSS) is the leading nationwide custom bulletproof barrier manufacturer and installer. The company is headquartered in Fowlerville, Michigan, and has offices in California, Washington, Nevada, Texas and Delaware. SIA spoke with Jim Richards, CEO of TSS, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.…
Keep Reading »A Message to Our Members
Dear SIA Members, As an organization dedicated to making our private and public places safer, the Security Industry Association (SIA) is devastated by the news of the violence that took place yesterday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. On behalf of SIA, I would like to extend our deepest condolences, concern and sympathy to…
Keep Reading »Video: Top 10 Hiring KPIs for Security Systems Integrators
In the first of our new SIA Integration Insights video series, we address the fact that hiring is hard, really hard! But just like sales and business operations, if you want to improve performance, you need to measure it and apply some key performance indicators (KPIs). SAGE Integration Chief Operating Officer John Nemerofsky stepped up…
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