The ASIS Foundation helps security professionals achieve their career goals with certification scholarships, practical research, member hardship grants, and more. Your Foundation is supported by generous donations from ASIS members, chapters, and organizations.
About the Foundation
The ASIS Foundation was founded as an affiliate of ASIS International in 1966 to serve the security industry through scholarship and research. The Foundation provides an opportunity to give back to security industry colleagues and awards more than 100 grants and scholarships annually to support security professionals. It is governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees and managed by a staff manager. The Foundation’s work is made possible by generous gifts from individuals, chapters, councils and organizations.
Education
We offer Scholarship and grant opportunities for those pursuing physical security and cybersecurity careers
Research
We conduct timely security research on contemporary threats, best practices, and regulations providing valuable and actionable knowledge for the security profession.
The Foundation’s work is made possible by generous gifts from individuals, chapters, councils and organizations.
New Research from the ASIS Foundation
Autonomous Vehicles: Threats, Risks, and Opportunities
Autonomous vehicles are no longer technology to be aware of on the periphery; they have arrived. The use of consumer grade drones as weapons of destruction and invaluable reconnaissance in Ukraine and Gaza serves as a warning that such systems are effective and can be put to any number of creative uses. While many of the headlines are negative, autonomous cars demonstrate just how far those systems have come.
There are many opportunities for corporate security to use autonomous vehicles to enhance their security posture. Of course, the technology also presents new threats, which present a new set of risks organizations must consider.
In this extensive research project, researchers Ishmael Bhila and Peter Lee from the University of Portsmouth and Alison Wakefield from the University of West London, guide readers to a greater understanding of autonomous vehicles, including those that operate in the air, on land, on the water, and underwater. They examine how they have been used, what potential they have, and how they have evolved. They discuss how artificial intelligence is affecting their capability, and they discuss both what regulations currently exist around the world and what direction future regulations may take.
Read the Executive Summary | Full Report
ASIS Foundation Virtual Fitness Challenge
Congratulations to our winners!
Individual Awards | Team Awards | |||
Catherine Hartwell, CPP Hector Romero Alejandro (Alex) Rojo, CPP |
ASIS Latam & Caribbean ASIS Latam & Caribbean ASIS Latam & Caribbean |
We would like to thank our our 2023 sponsors for another successful fitness challenge.
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Grant Winners Announced
Congratulations to the following chapters for winning this years' Chapter Grant Certification Starter Kits
Caracas | Northern New Jersey | ||
Chile | Omaha | ||
Dominican Republic | Quito - Ecuador | ||
Dubai | Salt Lake | ||
Guatemala | San Diego | ||
Hyderabad, India | São Paulo | ||
Kumasi | Shanghai | ||
Mumbai | West Australia | ||
North Carolina Piedmont |
ASIS Foundation Scholarships
1 IE Executive Education Scholarship
20 Chapter Starter Kit Grants
30+ Certification Scholarships
15 IFPO Certification Scholarships (10 in English, 5 in Spanish)
1 Public-Private Partnership Excellence Grant
Learn More about Foundation Scholarships and Grants.
Congratulations 2023 Scholarship Recipients
General Certification Scholarships Ana Laíse Ferreira Herculano Batista |
Military Liaison Council Certification Scholarships Nathen Powell Law Enforcement Liaison Certification Scholarships Sean Marschke IE Executive Education Scholarship Michael Brzozowski, CPP, PSP Public-Private Partnership Grant, in Honor of Matthew Simeone Pembroke Police & Fire |
ASIS Foundation Donation Tributes
The following donors designated their gifts as a tribute to special individuals or groups. To make your individual, chapter, or organization gift ‘in honor’ or ‘in memory’ of someone, please visit: https://store.asisonline.org/donate.html
Donor Name | Tribute | |||
Anonymous | In memory of Don Walker | |||
Susan Friedberg | In honor of Mark Folmer | |||
Eric Kready | In honor of Military Liaison Community Scholarship Fund | |||
Rose Miller | In honor of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) | |||
William Nay | In honor of the San Francisco Chapter - ASIS | |||
Henri Nolin | In honor of Military Liaison Commuity Scholarship Fund | |||
Anna Marie Federico | In honor of Gannett Fleming | |||
Michael Magill | In memory of Rich Frank, CPP | |||
Paul Ward, COSS | In honor of the Florida West Coast Chapter | |||
Watermark | In honor of the Military Liaison Community |