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Geoff Kohl

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SIA, SecuritySpecifiers announce inaugural recipients of CONSULT Scholarship

August 21, 2025SSN Staff

SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) and SecuritySpecifiers have announced the winners of the inaugural CONSULT Scholarship program for rising security consultants, designers and specifiers. The 2025 CONSULT Scholarship awardees are: Robert Demshki, technology designer, P2S Jordan Dolzadelli, senior technology project designer, IMEG Alana Hanly, security designer II, Henderson Engineers Brandon Kuchinski, security analyst, Faith Group Warren...

2025, Alana Hanly, Brandon Kuchinski, CONSULT, Consult Scholarship, Geoff Kohl, Joe Thode, Jordan Dolzadelli, Matthew O’Brien, Ray Coulombe, Robert Demshki, Rodolfo Rivas, Security Industry Association (SIA), SecuritySpecifiers, Warren Mancera


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News Poll: The struggle to get boots on the ground

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News Poll: The struggle to get boots on the ground

August 12, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor

YARMOUTH, Maine — The security industry is hungry for new faces to fill its workforce, according to SSN’s most recent news poll, and as demand for security services grows, the question among employers is how to fill those roles with the appropriate talent.  A vast majority of poll respondents concur that there’s demand for new hires in various segments of the security industry, with 40% saying there’s extremely high demand that they’re struggling to fulfill,...

Cybersecurity, Hiring, News Poll, Security Industry Association (SIA), Security Systems News (SSN), SecuritySpecifiers, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics


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Ray Coulombe

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New scholarship aims to build next generation of security consultants

July 9, 2025Cory Harris, Editor

CHESHIRE, Conn.—Ray Coulombe sees the new CONSULT Scholarship program as an opportunity to further develop and retain a younger group of security consultants, designers and specifiers.   The scholarship program, in partnership with the Security Industry Association (SIA), will offer three rising professionals the opportunity to attend CONSULT, an event that attracts a couple hundred attendees each year, for free.  “We haven't had that many younger consultants...

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Ray Coulombe

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SIA, SecuritySpecifiers announce new CONSULT Scholarship

June 26, 2025SSN Staff

SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) and SecuritySpecifiers have announced the new CONSULT Scholarship program for rising security consultants, designers and specifiers. The program will offer three scholarships in 2025 for recipients to use to attend CONSULT, the security industry’s only event for technical security design consultants, taking place Oct. 3-6 in Denver. “I applaud SIA’s efforts in working with SecuritySpecifiers...

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Gen. (RET.) Stan McChrystal to deliver keynote at CONSULT 2022

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Gen. (RET.) Stan McChrystal to deliver keynote at CONSULT 2022

February 14, 2022SSN Staff

CHESHIRE, Conn.—CONSULT 2022 Technical Security Symposium, to be held Oct.  28-31, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn., announced the esteemed Gen. (RET.) Stan McChrystal will be the event keynote speaker.  Called "one of America's greatest warriors" by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, General McChrystal is widely praised for launching a revolution in warfare by leading a comprehensive counterterrorism organization that fused intelligence and operations, redefining the way military...

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On The Editor's Desk

SecurityNext webcast to feature industry thought leaders

August 12, 2020Paul Ragusa

As one of the last in-person shows to take place back in February, the first annual SecurityNext conference is the last memory I have of feeling the excitement and intimacy of being right there and rubbing elbows with so many industry leaders and peers, an experience that I am sure all of us miss since COVID-19 disrupted so much of what was essential to our industry. I feel fortunate that I was able to connect on that level and look forward to a time when we can get back to some level of normalcy...

Brivo, Christine Lanning, Convergint Technologies, Imperial Capital, Integrated Security Technologies (IST), John Mack, Kelle Shanks, panel, Ray Coulombe, SecurityNext, SecuritySpecifiers, Steve Van Till, virtual conference, virtual learning, webcast


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Specifically Speaking with Andrei L. Ivan

March 25, 2020Paul Ragusa

What is your role at the company?As a Physical Security Manager, also known as a Section Manager, I am responsible for personnel management (development/training, staffing, communications, etc.) of a functional group of security consultants.I am overall responsible for the direction and leadership of a section of 11 personnel. Areas of responsibility include general roles supporting the overall department/division and specific roles relative to the section, which include but are not limited to: recruitment,...

1898 and Co., Andrei L. Ivan, Burns & McDonnell, SecuritySpecifiers, Specifically Speaking


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SecuritySpecifiers to conduct session at ISC West

January 29, 2020Paul Ragusa

LAS VEGAS—SecuritySpecifiers announced that it is conducting a session titled, “Understanding Security Systems Commissioning” at ISC West 2020, held here March 17-20. Security Specifiers Managing Director Ray Coulombe told Security Systems News that the panel will discuss the “often misunderstood and sometimes poorly defined” project close-out activity referred to as commissioning. “I am happy to host an encore presentation of one of our top CONSULT 2019 sessions,”...

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Specifically Speaking with Terry Harless

December 4, 2019Paul Ragusa

Security Systems News caught up with Terry Harless, senior technology consultant with Burns & McDonnell, who talked about his consulting career, the advancement of ground-based radar (GBR) technology and the future for security, in general.What's your role at the company? I have several roles within the company including mentoring physical security specialists, performing electronic security design, performing quality control for security design and assessment projects, and assist our business developer...

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CONSULT 2019 set for New Mexico

October 10, 2019Paul Ragusa

SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M.—Approximately 76 consultants, representing 59 companies, as well as representatives from 27 manufacturers, and select integrators and guest speakers, are set to converge here, Oct. 19-22, for CONSULT 2019. Will Wilkins, executive director, Global Security Operations, Valero Energy Corp., will keynote. “SecuritySpecfiers, along with 27 sponsoring manufacturers, is pleased to be welcoming next week many of the security industry's best and brightest consultants...

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