ORANGE COUNTY HISTORY

Welcome to ASIS International's Orange County Chapter 40 website.  Our chapter was formed in 1973 and is one of the largest chapters in Region III with approximately 300 members. Our membership represents a wide spectrum of security professionals including directors of security for Fortune 500 companies, and providers of security and investigative services, as well as federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are involved in the Chapter.

Every month our chapter brings together security professionals to create a form to further common goals, share experiences, resources and best practices. You are encouraged to attend our monthly meeting to learn and better understand the constant changes in national security issues and solutions.

PAST CHAIRPERSONS

FOUNDATION AND WAR CHEST DONATIONS

ASIS International Foundation

The ASIS International Foundation provides funding and manages endowments for a wide range of academic, strategic, and professional development activities. Support for the foundation is achieved through financial contributions from individuals, chapters, companies employing ASIS members, and corporations with an interest in security. Among the many activities the ASIS Foundation is established to assist are:

The development of academic programs
Sponsoring special security industry reports and research
Recognizing security-related advancements and achievements
Managing endowments for chapters and regions
Encouraging continuing education
Designing and publishing materials, including the Security Journal.

This emphasis on academic, strategic and professional development is critical to the evolution of the security field as a profession and a management science. The ASIS Foundation serves as a vital link between academic and professional development by disseminating reports such as Women in Security Management, a survey of top-level women security professionals, and participating in the development of academic programs like the Webster University Master of Arts degree in Security Management.

ASIS International Drug War Chest

A Special “thank you” to the following individuals and companies who donated monies to the Foundation and/or War Chest:

It is the participation, sup-port and financial assistance of the people like these that help to make being a member of our Chapter worthwhile.

• Henry Roder
• Sandy Cesare
• Mike Corcoran
• Steven Harback
• Raymond Johnson
• Michael Ryerson
• Sherri Morehouse
• Warren Willard
• Chris Wright, CPP

ASIS HISTORY

With more than 35,000 members, the ASIS International is the world's largest organization of security professionals. Its members are dedicated to protecting the people, property and information assts of a diverse group of private and public organizations.

ASIS members are management specialists who formulate security policy and direct security programs for banks, cleared government facilities, communications networks, hotels, museums, educational institutions, hospitals, shopping malls, domestic and foreign governments and countless other businesses and institutions. Security administrators from the nation's leading firms distinguish the current membership roster.

Since its founding in 1955 as a professional, individual-type membership association, ASIS has continued to grow. In recent years, ASIS has accepted an average or more than 4,000 new members annually.

Committed to advancing professionalism in the field of security, the Society is organized on local, regional and international levels, in a global network of more than 180 chapters.

ASIS members are charged with initiating and supervising loss-prevention programs to thwart internal and external offenses ranging from acts of terrorism, the pirating of classified documents, industrial/economic espionage, and counterfeiting, to insurance fraud, arson, employee theft, white collar, computer and organized crime. They are also responsible for preventing or minimizing losses from such natural or man-made disasters as fire, riots, strikes and other civil disorders.

Representatives of companies or organizations that supply security equipment, materials and services used by security practitioners as well as security/administration of justice students can also be members.