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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011).

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SIA New Member Profile: Hochiki

Security Industry Association

In 2001, Hochiki America made the choice to expand our OEM business into what is today a full system supplier. The views and opinions expressed in guest posts and/or profiles are those of the authors or sources and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Security Industry Association.

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SIA New Member Profile: Concentric Security

Security Industry Association

11, 2001, Concentric Security was born to expand on the need to keep people and property safe. The views and opinions expressed in guest posts and/or profiles are those of the authors or sources and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Security Industry Association. After the events of Sept.

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SIA New Member Profile: The AiN Group

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member the Authorized Integrators Network (AiN) Group was built by and is made up of consumer electronics dealers serving the residential and commercial building industries, providing its members the leverage they need to command the best volume price points on some of the top product lines in the industry.

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Security Industry Association Announces Winners of the 2023 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards

Security Industry Association

Maxine Most, Principal, Acuity Market Intelligence Strategic innovator, market visionary, and forecasting guru Maxine Most is the founding principal of Acuity Market Intelligence, a strategic research and analysis consultancy recognized as the definitive authority on global biometrics market development.

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SIA New Member Profile: ProTecht Solutions Partners

Security Industry Association

I have been in the security industry since I started in 2001 as a police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina, and have spent over 15 years working for security integrators. Jon Polly is founder of ProTecht Solutions Partners. Jon Polly : ProTecht Solutions Partners started as a place to put industry licenses and certifications.

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Internal Controls to Prevent Financial Statement Fraud

Reciprocity

energy company coasted on accounting fraud until it imploded in 2001, leading to the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act the following year. For example, record-keeping, authorization, and review activities should be divided among different employees. Perhaps the landmark example of cooking books was Enron, the U.S.

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