Security Industry Association Announces SIA RISE Scholarship Awardees

PRESS RELEASE

SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Safety Business Affiliation (SIA) has named 24 recipients for this 12 months’s SIA RISE Scholarship, a program provided via SIA’s RISE neighborhood, which helps the training and profession improvement targets of younger {industry} expertise and rising leaders.

By means of this scholarship program – open to SIA scholar members and RISE members who’re workers at SIA member corporations – every awardee will obtain a $3,000 scholarship to make use of towards persevering with training {and professional} improvement programs, SIA program choices and/or different tutorial or education schemes. Scholarship funds can be utilized to increase information within the areas of enterprise, human sources, info expertise, advertising and marketing, gross sales, challenge administration, safety engineering and/or danger administration.

“SIA congratulates this 12 months’s class of RISE Scholarship awardees – a formidable, various array of safety professionals and rising stars who’re making their mark on our {industry},” mentioned SIA CEO Don Erickson. “We’re proud to current scholarships to extra recipients this 12 months than ever earlier than and honored to help these inspiring younger leaders as they pursue their instructional and profession improvement targets.”

The winners for this 12 months’s RISE Scholarship are:

Be taught extra in regards to the honorees right here.

SIA would additionally wish to thank the next people and firms which contributed to the 2024 RISE Scholarship fund. Tax-deductible donations have been made via the Basis for Advancing Safety Expertise (FAST), a nonprofit group co-founded by SIA and the Digital Safety Affiliation and devoted to connecting passionate, revolutionary professionals with new alternatives within the safety {industry}.

SIA RISE is a neighborhood that fosters the careers of rising leaders within the safety {industry}. Along with the SIA RISE Scholarship, SIA RISE gives enjoyable in-person and digital networking occasions for younger professionals, the Expertise Inclusion Mentorship Training (TIME) program for early and mid-career professionals, the 25 on the RISE Awards, profession progress webinars and commerce present training tracks and the annual AcceleRISE convention – a novel occasion designed to ignite new pondering, strengthen management and sharpen enterprise acumen in younger safety expertise. The SIA RISE neighborhood is open to all workers at SIA member corporations who’re younger professionals underneath 40 or have been within the safety {industry} for lower than two years; be taught extra and signal as much as be a part of. 

About SIA

SIA is the main commerce affiliation for world safety answer suppliers, with over 1,500 revolutionary member corporations representing hundreds of safety leaders and specialists who form the way forward for the safety {industry}. SIA protects and advances its members’ pursuits by advocating pro-industry insurance policies and laws on the federal and state ranges, creating open {industry} requirements that allow integration, advancing {industry} professionalism via training and coaching, opening world market alternatives and collaborating with different like-minded organizations. Because the premier sponsor of ISC Occasions expos and conferences, SIA ensures its members have entry to top-level consumers and influencers, in addition to unparalleled studying and community alternatives. SIA additionally enhances the place of its members within the safety market via SIA GovSummit, which brings collectively personal {industry} with authorities resolution makers, and Securing New Floor, the safety {industry}’s prime government convention for peer-to-peer networking.