Employee Hiring Tip: Questions NOT to Ask in an Interview
The security industry, like any other, faces hiring challenges, and identifying, engaging, recruiting and hiring the best talent available is critical to fueling future strategic growth plans. A key component of the hiring process is asking the right questions in interviews (and avoiding asking the wrong questions). State laws vary widely regarding what you can and…
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What Are Intelligent Building Management Systems?
The Security Industry Association recently partnered with the ASIS Foundation and the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International to release groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind guidance for practitioners in the security and building management fields. Intelligent Building Management Systems (IBMS): Guidance for Protecting Organizations provides a framework to help decision makers assign a risk-based criticality or impact to their…
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New Member Profile: OutSecure
New Security Industry Association (SIA) member OutSecure is a cybersecurity strategy creation and implementation company headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, with offices in Europe and India. The company works to help clients protect their critical assets, build security into their products and systems based on industry standards, provide management with objective proof to shareholders that they…
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Cyber Onboarding Tip: Use Company-Issued Hardware
The Security Industry Association (SIA) is committed to helping you onboard new employees in a safe and secure way. Our Cyber Onboarding Guide for Employees helps employers and staff reduce cyber vulnerabilities at their organizations, protecting their business and assets. As a consumer of technology, you have many options for your devices. Organizations, on the other hand, should…
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Offering More With Your Security Installs
Most dealers are familiar wireless intrusion detection devices – motion detectors and door/window transmitters, and the like – and understand the advantages of wireless. Because wireless eliminates the labor costs running of cable and trenching, the economic advantages are clear. Likewise, wireless avoids the difficulties presented by traditional hardwiring. Wireless devices can be simply mounted…
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Interview Questions to Make Your Company’s Hiring Process Better
The security industry, like any other, faces hiring challenges, and identifying, engaging, recruiting and hiring the best talent available is critical to fueling future strategic growth plans. A key component of the hiring process is asking the right questions in interviews. Good interview questions should encompass several areas if they are to be useful in…
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New Member Profile: PetroCloud
New Security Industry Association (SIA) member PetroCloud is a technology leader of cloud-based solutions providing automation, monitoring and security to the energy and critical infrastructure industries. PetroCloud is headquartered in Irving, Texas, with offices in Midland, Texas, and Bakersfield, California. SIA spoke with Clay Hendon, director of business development at PetroCloud, about the company, the…
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Security Project Management Course Now Available Online – Next Class Starts Jan. 8
Basics of SPM class now offered in an instructor-led e-learning format. Starting Jan. 8, 2019, you can get the best of the Security Industry Association’s (SIA’s) renowned Security Project Management (SPM) training without leaving your home or office! In SIA’s new Basics of SPM class, you’ll get peer interaction and instructor-led classes with real-time feedback,…
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Post-Election Recap: 2018 Midterm Elections
The Security Industry Association (SIA) is pleased to provide the following post-election analysis and discussion on how the 2018 midterm results may impact the security industry. Moreover, SIA analyzed both federal and statewide election results for potential impact on SIA’s policy priorities. Federal As of Nov. 27, the U.S. House and Senate composition for the…
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SIA RISE Profile: Zeshaan Ahmed of Maxxess Systems
Read our interview with Zeshaan Ahmed as the Security Industry Association (SIA) spotlights a young professional on the rise! Are you a young security professional under 40? Join SIA’s RISE program. We’re a group of up-and-comers in the security industry trying to help each other grow our careers, expand industry knowledge, further professional development and…
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