SIA Announces Winners of 2024 Denis R. Hébert Identity Management Scholarship
Mariana Lima of dormakaba USA and Samuel Silvamolina of M.C. Dean will get $5,000 identity management scholarships.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named two recipients for the 2024 Denis R. Hébert Identity Management Scholarship, a program offering $5,000 scholarships for young professional SIA members to help further their education in the field of identity management.
The winners for the 2024 Hébert Scholarship are Mariana Lima, data privacy analyst, legal, at dormakaba USA, and Samuel Silvamolina, electronic security systems engineer at M.C. Dean.
This scholarship program – named after Hébert, a longtime security industry executive and past member of SIA’s board of directors who served as SIA board chairman from 2016 to 2018 – is “designed to support the professional development goals of individual SIA members and student members who specialize in identity management,” according to the association announcement.
Identity management encompasses “the systematic control of access, authenticating users, securing assets and protecting privacy” as well as risk management, public policy, fraud prevention, privacy, data analysis, risk and governance, information technology and security.
“My sincere congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Denis R. Hébert Identity Management Scholarship Awards, Mariana Lima and Samuel Silvamolina,” says Hébert in the SIA announcement. “Mariana and Samuel truly represent this industry’s future generation of leaders”
More About the Identity Management Scholarship Winners
With a legal education from one of Brazil’s most prestigious universities and an LLM degree set to be completed in the United States by December, Lima “brings a global perspective to her role at dormakaba,” according to the SIA announcement.
As an attorney specializing in corporate law, she “offers strategic guidance across Latin America, focusing on business agreements and corporate legal management, including litigation.”
Lima’s “proficiency in data privacy and protection is demonstrated through her development and implementation of comprehensive standards across Latin America, coupled with ensuring regulatory compliance in North America market,” the announcement says.
“The financial support provided by Denis R. Hébert Scholarship will significantly alleviate the burden of educational expenses associated with my ongoing master’s degree in law with a specialization in data privacy at Indiana University Bloomington,” says Lima in the SIA announcement.
“These educational endeavors will significantly enhance my skills in cybersecurity, risk management and information security and enable me to champion more women in security across the world,” she says.
Silvamolina is an electronic security systems engineer at M.C. Dean with almost 20 years of experience in physical security, fire and life safety and networking security plus an electrical engineering background from electrical power, power electronics and digital electronics.
He has been a member of the South Carolina Army National Guard since 2008, holding the rank of chief warrant officer 3 as a construction engineering technician, MOS 120A.
“The Denis R. Hébert Scholarship will enable me to pursue the education goals I never thought possible by affording me the financial resources to pursue my goals and dreams,” says Silvamolina in the SIA announcement. “I will be using this award to deepen my professional knowledge of the security industry, specifically in cybersecurity and networking.
“My dream is to perform research and create new paths to make our world more secure,” he says.
SIA and the board of directors established the Denis R. Hébert Identity Management Scholarship program in 2018 in recognition of the subject matter expertise Hébert offered and continues to offer to SIA members.
This year’s Hébert Scholarship awardees were recognized at the 2024 AcceleRISE conference.
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