Security Industry Association

JUNE 25, 2025

Especially in law enforcement and settings such as schools, hospitals, airports, government facilities, businesses and event venues. Driving standards, creating integrated solutions, promoting interoperability and sharing best practices are some of the ways we plan to actively engage with SIA.

Hospitality

NexusTek

JUNE 16, 2025

Deep Dive” into Marina Technology Modern marinas are diving headfirst into technology, and it’s not just hospitality tech with a nautical twist. Because in 2025, “tech trouble” is just a fancier way of saying “we’re losing business.” As technology continues to evolve, so will the marina experience. IBM, Cost of a Data Breach , July 2024.

Hospitality

Emergency Planning

MARCH 29, 2023

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

Transportation

The Failover Plan Podcast

AUGUST 10, 2020

Episode Summary: This week, Shane interviews James Mitchell- the Director of Organizational Resilience at the 724-bed Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX. The last few months he has been heavily involved with a historic pandemic response at Texas Children’s which involved a 140+ day activation of their incident command system.

Healthcare

Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

Disaster’ refers to an event that causes damage, destruction, interruption of services and important activities, and possibly casualties. Security’ involves protection against major threats, such as terrorist activity. Recovery involves ‘bouncing back’ or better still ‘bouncing forward’ to a state of greater safety. The citizen 4.1

Resilience

Security Industry Association

MAY 24, 2021

Hospital security is tricky. A medical center should be a place of healing and provide a welcoming atmosphere, but the reality is that hospitals and medical campuses create environments that are difficult to monitor and secure and regularly experience violence. Zach Jory, Axon Enterprise. Body-Worn Cameras.

Hospitality

The Failover Plan Podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2020

But what he’s especially good at is developing ways to gamify business continuity activities. But what he’s especially good at is developing ways to gamify business continuity activities. You’re going to want to hear how it works and the benefits it has brought to many programs. Guest Links: jmacdonnell@bdo.com.

Business Continuity

Security Industry Association

APRIL 7, 2022

Hospitals around the globe face the challenge of meeting the needs of a wide variety of people, from protecting patients (and their confidential information) to ensuring the well-being of staff and physicians to providing a safe environment for visitors. Numerous sectors of a hospital have complex needs for role-based access control.

Hospitality

Security Industry Association

MAY 18, 2022

” It would behoove us to use the best practices of how we talk and work with K-12, airports and the hospitality industry when we approach the proptech community. Get active, and make it a focus. Join and get active with the SIA Proptech Advisory Board. How about speaking directly to a real estate developer?

Security

Pure Storage

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In particular, using elPrep and FlashBlade together eliminated the need for manual, time-consuming, data-staging activities (See Figure 1). We performed the test at the Pure Customer Solutions Center and used a single physical server to run the elPrep workload. This is primarily because FlashBlade supports both fast SMB and fast NFS.

Healthcare

Pure Storage

APRIL 12, 2024

As an example, healthcare institutions like Pederzoli Hospital are leveraging Pure Storage to accelerate patient examination and diagnosis, allowing more patients to be seen each day. It’s a highly regulatory managed set of infrastructures for those IT spaces, but that’s why it makes it great for folks like myself,” Tom said.

Healthcare

everbridge

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This means collaborating with outside jurisdictions, hospitals, non-profits, and private businesses within the area. Quiet periods: Activating quiet periods allows users to stop receiving alerts, but that doesn’t mean employees and community members will remain unaware of a major weather event.

Alert

Security Industry Association

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Seeing our systems protect people at stadiums, hospitals and schools without disrupting the enjoyment of their day makes the effort worthwhile. These venues include arenas, stadiums, schools, hospitals, manufacturing and distribution centers and other facilities. How does your organization engage with SIA?

Hospitality

Security Industry Association

JULY 13, 2022

From global enterprises to the most renowned hospitals, cloud access control is quickly becoming more popular, replacing its on-premises predecessors. One of the most widely used APIs is between access control and identity management platforms, such as Okta and Azure Active Directory. Hospitals are a common sector using wireless locks.

Hospitality

National Fire Protection Association

MARCH 20, 2023

Periodic Testing Fire dampers need to be inspected and tested 1 year after the initial acceptance test and then every 4 years, unless the dampers are installed in a hospital, in which case they can be inspected and tested every 6 years. In that case, it is permitted to turn the fan in the system off.

Hospitality

everbridge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

To fulfill duty of care standards, corporations, educational institutions, hospitals, and government agencies should evaluate and test the health of communication networks and information systems before a severe weather event occurs. Emergency Management During a Hurricane.

Hospitality

Solutions Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Additionally, users can utilize continuous control monitoring and self-assessments to report on their risk posture and activity in near real-time. Users are able to evaluate risk based on a methodology of their choice and understand risk relationships across their business processes, controls, and third-party relationships.

Risk Management

Security Industry Association

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In a retail or service setting such as a bank or hospital, AI can help with personnel management by analyzing video surveillance and access control to determine the peak level of activity for employees and customers. Some people are even starting to attach these devices to their suitcases when they fly.

Security

everbridge

AUGUST 11, 2021

The hospitality, leisure, and automotive industries were hit the hardest. Of those respondents who were actively involved in their organization’s Covid-19 response, only 26% strongly agreed their company effectively managed Covid-19, and only 18% felt they were well prepared.?

Resilience

NexusTek

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Incident 2: Ransomware Attack The next cybersecurity incident involved a regional hospitality business with about 2,700 employees, that operates a collection of music venues, restaurants, and hotels in the Pacific Northwest. SIEM, IAM) are important in slowing threat actors down.

Cybersecurity

MHA Consulting

MARCH 21, 2024

In today’s post, we’ll look at the measures hospitals and other facilities that care for patients can and should take to improve their resilience in the face of the rising threat. medical infrastructure was subject to what the American Hospital Association called “the most significant and consequential cyberattack on the U.S.

Healthcare

Security Industry Association

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Alice DiSanto was introduced to the Security Industry Association in 2014 and immediately became actively involved. DiSanto has executive leadership experience with firms in the Fortune Global 500, four upstart companies and a regional hospital.

Security

NexusTek

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Incident 2: Ransomware Attack The next cybersecurity incident involved a regional hospitality business with about 2,700 employees, that operates a collection of music venues, restaurants, and hotels in the Pacific Northwest. SIEM, IAM) are important in slowing threat actors down.

Cybersecurity

Pure Storage

MARCH 6, 2024

LockBit has been responsible for headline-garnering attacks on hospitals, schools, and financial institutions, propelling the U.S. With the threat landscape becoming increasingly active, premiums are likely to continue to rise. Policy exclusions are also evolving.

Insurance

Security Industry Association

DECEMBER 21, 2021

8 at the age of 88, after courageously battling a short illness at Yale New Haven Hospital. Joe modeled a well-lived active life and approached each day with a sense of purpose and positivity. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or Shriners Hospitals for Children. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given to St.

Hospitality

LogisManager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Innovation is no longer a competitive differentiator; hospitals, clinics and pharmacies now rely on the flexibility and capacity of their technology to continue providing services. Topic: Warding off ransomware, negligence and inefficiencies with ERM software. Introduction. Business Outcome.

Healthcare

MHA Consulting

JULY 13, 2023

accounts payable, payroll) and activities (running reports, uploading data). hospitals must have very short RTOs; educational institutions can have longer ones). The result was, the BIA was bloated with information that was of no value and buried the important data. Make sure your RTOs are industry-appropriate (e.g.,

BCM

LogisManager

JANUARY 5, 2023

By leveraging technology, including the use of integrated electronic medical records, this customer has been named repeatedly to Health Network’s list of “Most Wired” hospitals. Hospitals & Healthcare. HIMSS Stage 6: Winona Health’s Hospital is one of only 25% of hospitals meeting the requirements for Stage 6 recognition.

Risk Management

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2020

The hospitals in Wuhan have struggled with the number of patients and have built a new 1000-person hospital in under 10 days. If there are less people, can you prioritise your services and what you deliver or the activities you carry out? Your customer profile in response to a pandemic may change.

Pandemic

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2020

The hospitals in Wuhan have struggled with the number of patients and have built a new 1000-person hospital in under 10 days. If there are less people, can you prioritise your services and what you deliver or the activities you carry out? Your customer profile in response to a pandemic may change.

Pandemic

MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Organizations now have to contend with a heightened risk of drought, flooding, heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, political unrest, global conflict, cyberattack, power outages, active shooters, supply chain disruptions, pandemic, social-media impacts, and all the rest. In consequence, BC is likely to find itself taking a back seat.

BCM

Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

One of the key parts in the development of business continuity is identifying an organisation’s priority activities; which ones we need to recover first and the ones we can recover later. Using the MTPD information developed in the ‘design’ stage of the business continuity lifecycle, we can go on to set the RTO for each activity.

Activation

Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

One of the key parts in the development of business continuity is identifying an organisation’s priority activities; which ones we need to recover first and the ones we can recover later. Using the MTPD information developed in the ‘design’ stage of the business continuity lifecycle, we can go on to set the RTO for each activity.

Activation

Security Industry Association

MAY 2, 2023

Harrison is responsible for the coordination of stakeholder engagement activities and helps to identify biometric identity management solutions in support of existing OBIM stakeholders. As a business owner of the Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) playing a critical role in sharing biometric identity information for the U.S.

Security

Security Industry Association

AUGUST 5, 2022

Here are the top things you need to know about our latest activities and resources, upcoming events and opportunities and more. From global enterprises to the most renowned hospitals, cloud access control is quickly becoming more popular, replacing its on-premises predecessors. Hey SIA members! Welcome, New Members!

Hospitality

Disaster Recovery

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Many had to be hospitalized due to exposure to carbon monoxide. More Patients at Hospitals and Medical Centers. Local hospitals saw a more than normal level activity with many admissions. Protective Measures against the Cold Turned Risky. Frostbite and hypothermia got the better of a number of locals.

Hospitality

Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Defining the RTOs of your activities, I believe is one of the most critical activities the Business Continuity Manager will carry out. The first step for defining the activity RTOs is to define the Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD) for the activity.

Activation