Senior leadership of ASIS International (ASIS) and the Security Industry Association (SIA) will formally announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas on Thursday, April 11, 2013, at ISC West. The MOU’s objective is to promote collaboration and information sharing between the two leading security industry associations, an ASIS press release states.
The overarching goals of the agreement are to foster growth of the security industry, promote public safety and protect critical infrastructure globally. Among the issues that may be addressed by the associations are: privacy concerns over the use of security technologies; the development of an education security workforce; voluntary consensus standards; and the availability of federal and state financial resources for the protection of critical infrastructure during a time of fiscal austerity.