• The Nominating Committee is currently accepting nominations for the 2012-13 IAPSC Board of Directors and Officers election. Candidate statements will be circulated with a request for additional nominations on February 15. All nominations due by February 25 to iapsc@iapsc.org.
  
  
• The Awards Committee is now accepting nominations for the 2012 Meritorious Life Membership Award and Sennewald Distinguished Service Accolade. Previous award recipients are listed here. All nominations due by March 1 to iapsc@iapsc.org.
  
  
• The Strategic Planning and Regional Seminar Committees are currently recruiting volunteers to chair 2 IAPSC regional seminars in 2012. Contact Frank Pisciotta for details or to volunteer. 
   
• The CSC Certification Committee is currently recruiting instructors for a CSC Exam Preparation Course Webinar, which will be available for purchase to CSC candidates as an additional study resource. To get involved, please contact committee chair Ron Heil. 
   
• So far, the IAPSC Conference Exhibitor Sub-committtee has recruited over 20 sponsors & exhibitors for this year's annual conference. Committee Chairs Elliot Boxebaum and Frank Pisciotta. 
   
• The Technical Standards Committee has completed a survey of professional architects and design engineers, which was conducted to gain insight into their security concerns as a means to develop viable security training programs. Committee chair: Frank Pisciotta  
   
• The Best Practices Committee will be giving a review of Best Practice development procedure at the upcoming Members' Business Meeting on April 16, 2012. Committee chair: Norm Bates 
   
• Best Practice #3: Use of Force Ad-Hoc Committee is getting ready to release the second draft of the document for member commentary. The draft will be circulated by email. Committee chair: Al Zajic 
   
• Kevin Murray is currently leading the Website Committee in a redesign and update of the association's logo and website IAPSC.org. Watch for exciting new features and a fresh new look coming soon! 
   
• Mark Lex is working with the Membership Committee on an initiative to bring more Internal Consultant members into the association. The committee is also working to enhance the Mentor Program for new members. To get involved, contact committee chair: Harold Gillens 

John Strauchs   

• Is speaking at the 2012 Kaspersky Threatpost Security Analysts Summit in Cancun, Mexico, on 03 February at 10:20.  The Summit is an invite-only security conference aimed at connecting Kaspersky Lab malware and spam analysts with external security researchers and law enforcement officials. 
• Was recently featured in a Washington Times article, "Prison bureau alerted to hacking into lockups," by Shaun Waterman. 

Jack Case recently attended the Association of Security Consultants (ASC) Meeting and Banquet at the House of Lords in London. 
 

For more updates, visit the IAPSC Blog 

With the New Year in full swing, the IAPSC Strategic Planning Committee once again requests the support of our membership with writing a testimonial which will be posted on IAPSC's website.

We recognize that each member has a unique story or thought to convey about our association and we want to offer you this opportunity to share yours. The committee would also like to thank those of you who have already participated - your contributions are greatly appreciated.

Once you have prepared a testimonial please send it to Alison Corley, acorley@iapsc.org and Bob Owles, rowlesci@owlesci.com.

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