About Us - ASIS

Who We Are

To read the Chapter President's May - June 2005 message, click here.

To read a special message about chapter's future (or lack thereof), click here.

With more than 33,000 members, ASIS International (formerly the American Society for Industrial Security) is the world's largest organization of security professionals. Its members are dedicated to protecting the people, property and information assets of a diverse group of private and public organizations.

ASIS members are management specialists who formulate security policy and direct security programs for banks, cleared government facilities, communications networks, hotels, museums, educational institutions, hospitals, shopping malls, domestic and foreign governments and countless other businesses and institutions. Security administrators from the nation's leading firms distinguish the current membership roster.

Since its founding in 1955 as a professional, individual-type membership association, ASIS has continued to grow. In recent years, ASIS has accepted an average or more than 4,000 new members annually. Committed to advancing professionalism in the field of security, the Society is organized on local, regional and international levels, in a global network of more than 180 Chapters.

ASIS members are charged with initiating and supervising loss-prevention programs to thwart internal and external offenses ranging from acts of terrorism, the pirating of classified documents, industrial/economic espionage, and counterfeiting, to insurance fraud, arson, employee theft, white collar, computer and organized crime. They are also responsible for preventing or minimizing losses from such natural or man-made disasters as fire, riots, strikes and other civil disorders.

Representatives of companies or organizations that supply security equipment, materials and services used by security practitioners as well as security/administration of justice students can also be members.

2007 Elected Officers

Chair:  Doug Bryant
Securitas 
Doug.Bryant@securitasinc.com

Vice Chairman:  Dave Barley
Amgen
dbarley@amgen.com

Secretary:  Rodger Kloppe
Allied-Barton Security Services
rrodge01@amgen.com 

Treasurer:  Fred Setayesh
ABM Security Services
fsetayesh@abm.com 

Our chapter newsletter is a nine time winner of Best Newsletter of the Year (Group II) from ASIS International! Here are copies of recent ones.

• September 2003(13 pages, 981 kb)
• November-December 2003 (12 pages, 867 kb)
• January 2004 (10 pages, 818 kb)
• February 2004(9 pages, 788 kb)
• March 2004(12 pages, 921 kb)
• April 2004(13 pages, 1.1 mb)
• Minutes for International Chapter Telecon
• September 2004(17 pages, 1.4 mb)

ASIS offers three professional certifications:

• Certified Protection Professional (CCP)
• Professional Certified Investigator (PCI)
• Physical Security Professional (PSP)

For more information on these programs, click here

An excellent source for additional local information on emergencies is the Santa Barbara County CAER (Community Awareness & Emergency Response) site at
http://www.sbcaer.org/

To visit the site for ASIS in the United Kingdom, go to: http://www.asis.org.uk/

To visit the ASIS national office site, go to http://www.asisonline.org/.

To visit Security Management, the official publication of ASIS, go to http://www.securitymanagement.com/.