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Security Industry Association Names Scott Gross as 2024 SIA Insightful Practitioner Award Honoree

Security Industry Association

Since joining Con Edison in 2004, Gross has played an invaluable role in mitigating the growing menace of drone activity over critical infrastructure, integrating airspace security solutions to monitor and respond to drone incursions and ensuring comprehensive surveillance and real-time threat assessment.

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Guest Opinion: It’s Time for Counter-Unmanned Aerial/Aircraft Systems in the Private Sector

Security Industry Association

This is a clear concern, based on our decades of experience in the Middle East and Afghanistan conflicts, and now with overwhelming evidence coming in from the Ukraine war that is cementing the need for detection, monitoring, tracking and mitigation of drone platforms. Form an official public/private CUAS task force with decision authority.

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Guest Opinion: Act Now to Secure Public Space: Commercial Drones Continue to Evolve and We Have No Plan!

Security Industry Association

This is very important because it’s exactly where the general public goes for entertainment and to gather for various informational events. So, what is needed and what can be done to help the private sector plan appropriately, mitigate risk, and provide a semblance of safety and security for its patrons?

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SIA New Member Profile: Petrone Risk

Security Industry Association

John Petrone : Petrone Risk was established 15 years ago because through our work with sports and entertainment organizations, we noticed a few gaps in the security realm – an absence of an emergency preparedness team or even a safety committee. Tell us the story of your company. JP :No one knows what the next set of threats will be.

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Expect the Unexpected: Looking Back on Season Two of Business, Interrupted

Castellan

We did that through all of our mitigation efforts. Mark Armour, co-author of the book, “Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach,” discussed different resilience management styles during the season’s first episode. We had to instill confidence in the traveling public and so we did that through the strategic plans,” he recalled. “We

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Business Continuity – The Future?

Plan B Consulting

So, for our business continuity managers there are lots of threats to plan for, mitigate and prepare the organisation’s response to. Therefore, your organisation needs to manage the response to the issue, including the media, local authorities and the effect on the local population.

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Business Continuity – The Future?

Plan B Consulting

So, for our business continuity managers there are lots of threats to plan for, mitigate and prepare the organisation’s response to. Therefore, your organisation needs to manage the response to the issue, including the media, local authorities and the effect on the local population.