IdTA to cease operations, leading members to join SIA
Source SecurityInfoWatch.com
The Security Industry Association (SIA) on Thursday announced that the Identification Technology Association (IdTA) is dissolving its operations and that its leading members will subsequently join SIA and help guide its new Identity and Biometric Technology Advisory Board.
Effective Jan. 1, CLEAR, Leidos, and SAIC will become SIA members, while other current IdTA members IDEMIA and NEC will continue their active membership within SIA.
“SIA is proud to welcome members of the IdTA into the SIA community. Business leaders’ confidence in SIA reflects our vision to serve as a strong platform for companies to elevate the value of innovative identification technologies before government officials, media, and channel partners,” said Don Erickson, CEO of SIA. “SIA has a successful record of providing education and advocacy to the identification sector over many years. However, through the involvement of these notable global businesses on the Identity and Biometric Technology Advisory Board, we are excited to increase SIA’s value proposition for participating companies.”
“We are convinced that the mission of SIA strongly aligns with the goals and objectives of IdTA,” said the IdTA Executive Committee in a statement. “By becoming founding members of the SIA Identity and Biometric Technology Advisory Board, our members have access to greater capabilities of SIA. As the biometric industry continues to mature, the technology is driving innovation in sectors beyond the federal public sector. We see the need to expand our engagement into other private sector markets including critical infrastructure, commercial security and consumer electronics.”
With the announcement, SIA extends its exclusive advisory board structure beyond its current Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Advisory Boards. The association said it envisions the Identity and Biometric Technology Advisory Board guiding the development of several initiatives, including but not limited to a series of virtual and/or in-person networking roundtables with government officials, periodic SIA-led official meetings with policymakers and key agency procurement officials, input into educational content developed by SIA, such as identity management tracks and sessions at SIA events and SIA’s Security Megatrends, and involvement with SIA standards activities. The Identity and Biometric Technology Advisory Board staff liaison is Joe Hoellerer, senior government relations manager for SIA.
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