Security Industry Association Announces 2025 Denis R. Hébert Identity Management Scholarship Winners
The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced the winners of the 2025 Denis R. Hébert Identity Management Scholarship, awarding two young professionals with $5,000 each to support their educational pursuits in identity management.
Recipients and Scholarship Purpose
This year's recipients are Nathaniel Pliskaner, a student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), and Kaine Rubalcava, an enterprise support service program manager at City of Hope.
The scholarship honors Hébert, a veteran security industry leader and former SIA Board Chair (2016-2018), and aims to foster the growth of SIA members and students specializing in identity management—a critical area involving access control, user authentication, asset protection, and privacy safeguarding. The field intersects with risk management, public policy, cybersecurity, data analysis, and information security.
Hébert's Congratulations
Hébert expressed his congratulations, stating, "Kaine and Nathaniel exemplify the next generation of professionals driving innovation in identit...