SIA Standards Service Award
Recognizing outstanding Leadership related to SIA's standards programs and services
About the SIA Standards Service Award
The SIA Standards Service Award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated continued excellence and tireless service in volunteer efforts related to the leadership, development, education and advocacy of SIA’s standards programs and services. The SIA Standards Service Award is presented at The Advance, SIA's annual membership meeting held during ISC West.
2025 SIA Standards Service Award Recipient: Boris Stern
SIA has named Boris Stern as the 2025 recipient of the SIA Standards Service Award. Boris Stern, based in Switzerland, is a consultant representing Swissdotnet. He has been actively engaged in the security industry for 15 years, specializing in monitoring center technologies, with a strong technical background in information security and telecommunications. Passionate about aligning technological advancements with industry standards, Stern actively contributes to normative writing across multiple organizations, including SIA, UL, the International Electrotechnical Commission and CENELEC. He also serves as managing director of E-DOOR SARL and lead auditor at the Swiss Association for Quality and Management Systems, and he previously worked as chief business development officer at Sitasys AG. For nearly three years, Stern has served as chair of SIA’s Intrusion Subcommittee, which maintains and promotes standards dealing with residential and commercial intrusion panels and communication between protected premises and monitoring stations.
The SIA Intrusion Subcommittee serves as the primary editor of CP-01 and the SIA DC family of standards. Under Stern’s leadership, the team has worked extensively to enhance alarm transmission interoperability, ensuring that a majority of manufacturers align with SIA standards. During this time, SIA achieved approval by the American National Standards Institute for the DC-09-2021 standard. The DC-09-2024 standard, which the group manages, is in the approval process, and SIA is collaborating with its UL partners on a unified terminology project for the United States and beyond. The subcommittee continues to drive industry-wide collaboration, supporting seamless integration and the ongoing evolution of security technologies.
Previous SIA Standards Service Award Recipients
- 2021: Tony Diodato
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