Security Industry Association Names Tony Diodato as 2021 SIA Standards Service Award Recipient
The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Tony Diodato as the recipient of the 2021 SIA Standards Service Award, an honor presented to an individual demonstrating continued excellence and tireless service in volunteer efforts related to the leadership, development, education and advocacy of SIA’s standards programs and services. SIA will present Diodato with the award at The Advance, SIA’s annual membership meeting, which will be hosted March 23 as a virtual event.
Diodato is the founder and chief technology officer at Cypress Integration Solutions. Before founding Cypress in 1983, he became acquainted with SIA 40 years ago at his first trade show in New York City, where he met industry veteran and SIA volunteer Sandra Jones. Diodato has been active in efforts to develop SIA Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) — a SIA access control communications standard designed to improve interoperability among access control and security products — since 2012. He has been co-chair of the SIA OSDP Working Group since 2018.