Developing and advocating security industry standards have always been a big part of what the Security Industry Association (SIA) is all about. But we realize that we are not alone in these efforts, and many other organizations are working on helpful industry standards that may parallel or even contradict our efforts. This needs to change.
In the past, working with other standards organizations has meant that we at SIA have used our ANSI accreditation to help move the standards process along or give it more credibility. But we realize that this is no longer enough. There needs to be true harmonization of our efforts with the other standards-making bodies to avoid duplication of our efforts and confusing dual or even triple standards. The only thing worse than having no standard at all for something is having three standards for the same thing.