The Women’s Security Council, a group of security professionals who work to promote the advancement of women in the industry, announced a new security scholarship program for female students during its annual reception at ISC West. The event also included recognition of the winners of the 2014 WSC Women of the Year awards.
The WSC scholarship program will support women focused on studies in the security market and will be awarded for the 2015 academic year. It will be used toward tuition for a two-year degree at Mercer County Community College or another aligned college program that combines security-specific training, liberal arts and business classes.
The scholarship program was developed in partnership with the Security Industry Association (SIA) and ISC Events, and is made possible with financial support from both organizations. The overall goal of the program is to increase diversity in the industry and allow more individuals to gain access to its rich pool of career opportunities.
In addition to the scholarship news, the WSC reception included special recognition of the winners of the 2014 Women of the Year Awards. The program, which began in 2010, honors successful female professionals in the security industry, taking into account their industry and work experience, volunteer efforts and industry reputation.
The 2014 Women of the Year award winners are Kelly Bond, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Alarm Capital Alliance; Silvia Fraser, Manager of Corporate Security for the City of Toronto; Jean Gordon Kocienda, Global Threat Analyst at Cisco Systems; Christine Lanning, President of Integrated Security Technologies; Lindsay Martin-Nez, Vice President of Sales at BadgePass; Rose M. Miller, Director of Protective Services at MedStar Washington Hospital; and Nancy Royalty, Operations Manager for Sonitrol of Evansville.
COPS Monitoring celebrates new offering, millionth account and more
Following its successful launch of Grouped Access for MPower Me — a dealer-branded smartphone access program for subscribers — COPS Monitoring celebrated in western style at its Dealer Bonanza at World Famous Gilley’s in Treasure Island.
Alarm dealers and integrators donned western gear and took to the dance floor — all while in celebration of COPS reaching the milestone of more than one million wholesale monitored accounts. In addition to door prizes, COPS made a donation to Mission 500 for each of the more than 700 people in attendance.
Mission 500 raises more than $110,000
Mission 500, a charitable organization engaging security professionals to sponsor children in need, raised more than $110,000 at ISC West through its Security 5K/2 Charity Run and other events.
A record 723 runners and walkers registered for the Charity Run. The first-place female runner was Lisanne Naeth (21:48), and the first-place male runner was Peter Novick (18:11).
Self-created fundraising Web pages raised nearly $37,000. Charlene Foglio of First Response Security was the top fundraiser with $4,320, followed by Mike Perkins with $2,900 which his employer, Anixter, is matching dollar for dollar. Jesse Foglio, Mary Jensby and Emma Procter raised $1,500 each.
