SIA Honors Tony Diodato With 2021 SIA Standards Service Award

SILVER SPRING, Md. — The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Tony Diodato as the recipient of the 2021 SIA Standards Service Award.

The honor is presented to an individual demonstrating continued excellence and tireless service in volunteer efforts related to the leadership, development, education and advocacy of SIA’s standards programs and services.

SIA will present Diodato with the award at The Advance, SIA’s annual membership meeting, which will be hosted March 23 as a virtual event.

Diodato is the founder and CTO at Cypress Integration Solutions. Before founding Cypress in 1983, he became acquainted with SIA 40 years ago at his first trade show in New York City, where he met prolific industry veteran and SIA volunteer Sandra Jones.

Diodato has been active in efforts to develop SIA Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) — a SIA access control communications standard designed to improve interoperability among access control and security products — since 2012. He has been co-chair of the SIA OSDP Working Group since 2018.

“It’s been an amazing journey over the past 40 years in the industry. I’ve had the honor of working with some great colleagues and mentors in the OSDP Working Group,” says Diodato. “I’m really looking forward to continue serving and to seeing OSDP gain worldwide acceptance.”

Diodato was instrumental in the development of SIA OSDP version 2.2 — which was released in December 2020 and improves interoperability, security and support for smart card applications — and played a critical role in getting SIA OSDP approved as an international standard by the International Electrotechnical Commission in June 2020.

He has spoken at many industry conferences and events on the importance of security industry adoption of SIA OSDP and has introduced the SIA OSDP Working Group to a new generation of industry talent through involving his development team in a variety of working group projects.

“Tony Diodato has been a tireless evangelist and educator for the SIA Open Supervised Device Protocol standard, and because of his efforts, SIA OSDP is not just an access control protocol — he has specified it for uses in aerospace and robotics and really amplified the reach of SIA’s activities,” comments Joe Gittens, SIA director of standards.

Gittens continues, “SIA applauds Tony for his exceptional contributions to SIA, the industry and the SIA Open Supervised Device Protocol standard and is proud to honor him with the 2021 SIA Standards Service Award.”

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