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Security Industry Association Names Convergint, Wavelynx and Wesco as 2025 SIA Members of the Year

Security Industry Association

The SIA Member of the Year Award honors SIA member companies that have shown notable involvement in SIA committees and working groups, SIA events and the SIA Education at ISC conference program; leadership activity; recruitment of SIA members; and contributions to SIA thought leadership and the industry overall.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). In Florence, by contrast, there is a living, active concept of fiorentinesimo. I need not repeat them here. Statler and R.

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

In this context, I salute the thoughtful work of Christopher Gomez, Dierdre Hart and JC Gaillard (Gomez and Hart 2013, Gaillard and Gomez 2015) on the phenomenon of the "disaster gold rush". If we are asked to do more, it must be at the expense of some other activity. This also exists outside the academic field. Gaillard, J-C.

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Non Disruptive Upgrades: The Pure Storage Ship of Theseus

Pure Storage

One Pure Storage customer has done this to their original FlashArray FA-420 purchased in 2013 to include their controllers, bus architectures, and DirectFlash® Modules (DFMs) to become a FlashArray//X70 R3. Both controllers can receive I/O during normal operations, but the system only processes data through the active one.

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Earthquake Ready?

KingsBridge BCP

originally published in 2013]. But according to some of Canada’s major insurance companies, we should all be thinking ahead and getting ourselves ready for earthquakes. ” This brings us to the nugget of this post (and I think you know what it is): Are you ready? About KingsBridge.

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Supply Chain Resilience Training: What Has Changed Over The Last 10 Years?

Plan B Consulting

One principle that has not changed is that you can outsource the activity but not the risk, and this is firmly stated at the beginning of both the new and old courses. What I take away from looking at a new set of case studies is that MSPs and specialist outsourcers have been integral to a vast number of different organisations.

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

Security Industry Association

She spent over eight years in the biometrics field focused on quality assurance, information security and quality processes and has led a variety of projects, including the implementation and certification of ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System and ISO 27001:2013 Information Security Management System (ISMS) for NEC Advanced Recognition Systems.