In a letter to the “SIA group” marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist assaults on America, Safety Trade Affiliation chief government officer Don Erickson highlighted “the safety trade’s key position … to handle and guard in opposition to the specter of terrorism because it continues to evolve.”
“As we observe and mirror upon the twenty fifth anniversary of the terrorist assaults on Sept. 11, 2001, the Safety Trade Affiliation (SIA) honors the roughly 3,000 people who misplaced their lives throughout or within the aftermath: the workplace staff of the World Commerce Heart; the U.S. Division of Protection private; the passengers and the crew aboard the 4 plane, together with the heroes of Flight 93,” writes Erickson.
He additionally singles out “the selfless first responders who put the protection of others forward of their very own and the household we misplaced and miss day by day,” including that “the assaults struck so many people at a private stage.” Erickson celebrates “the courageous U.S. service members and their sacrifices,” noting “the braveness these heroes demonstrated within the wake of 9/11 has made us safer as a nation.
“The safety trade is lucky sufficient to have many veterans working amongst us,” writes Erickson. “Their abilities, expertise and dedication encourage and strengthen us all.”
What Did Don Erickson Say About Sept. 11 Anniversary?
Erickson closes his letter by selling “the safety trade’s key position amongst stakeholders as we work collectively as a nation to handle and guard in opposition to the specter of terrorism because it continues to evolve.”
He factors to the U.S. Home Intelligence Committee’s launch of a bipartisan evaluate of the 9/11 Fee Report in August, noting it “mirrored on the suggestions made by the Fee in 2004 concerning steps that have to be taken to stop America from falling sufferer to radical terrorism once more.”
“Whereas vital progress has been made since 9/11, 25 years later there are nonetheless essential initiatives that have to be accomplished to completely implement them,” writes Erickson. “Within the evaluate, Congress recognized 20 completely different areas needing additional motion.”
Amongst them, he writes, “a key suggestion reiterated that the U.S. should full its implementation of the biometric entry-exit system for overseas nationals touring in and in another country.”
“SIA member corporations have been on the forefront of technological developments that now enable extraordinarily quick and correct assortment and comparability of biometric knowledge at U.S. borders and ports of entry that may assist make this doable,” writes Erickson.
The evaluate additionally discusses “how the menace panorama has developed to incorporate threats posed by the hostile use of drones, which is one thing SIA’s Drone Safety Subcommittee has been working with policymakers over the past two years to handle,” he writes.
One other suggestion “highlights the rising significance of capabilities to investigate open-source intelligence (OSINT) and the present underutilization of such capabilities by the intelligence group specifically,” writes Erickson. A variety of SIA members “proceed to play a key position in growing and offering superior OSINT capabilities.”
“As we mirror on one of many darkest days in our nation’s historical past, and the loss and heartbreak which have echoed by the final quarter century, allow us to keep in mind those that gave their lives and allow us to keep in mind our shared obligation,” he writes.
“We’re a mission-driven group of safety consultants, practitioner leaders, authorities specialists, expertise builders, integrators and consultants and it’s our accountability to do our greatest to make the world a safer place,” writes Erickson. “Thanks in your demonstrated dedication to that mission.”
