Secom has provided security services to government agencies, commercial and industrial facilities, non-profit organizations, and businesses for over 20 years, catering to clients in need of advanced safeguards.
The secret to our success? Trust. Transparency. And, of course, long-standing relationships. It’s all about people, Secom president Mike Toomey will tell anyone willing to listen. “Good, quality people who do great work.”
Secom’s new VP of Federal Sales, Ron Bonievich, exemplifies Secom’s commitment to investing in talent and know-how, and the great work that inevitably results.
For over three decades, Bonievich served as a security specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency; the CIA.
But while most may associate those three little letters with cloak-and-dagger dynamics and other assorted spy games, the reality is far more interesting.
“I’ve been in security my whole life,” Bonievich says.
A stint as a federal police officer introduced Ron to the agency and was followed by a field installation technician role where he was responsible for SCIF alarm and intrusion detection system installs. (“Exactly what Secom does,” he notes.)
For a time, Bonievich tested the waters in the agency’s personnel department, conducting clearance related tasks—and then later transferred to the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), where for six years he ran the badge office, shepherding people on and off base and specializing in compound access control. During his second tour there, he was placed in charge of the guards – a full-circle event. Now, instead of protecting and serving as a police officer, he was managing the force himself.
During Bonievich’s later years with the agency, he became heavily involved in force protection, or the integrated application of law enforcement, anti-terrorism activities, training, physical security, and operations security.
“This often involved international work, assessing threats, evaluating and testing technical solutions and mitigations, and determining how to best deploy them based on mission needs,” he says.
During Bonievich’s last tour, he served as the CIA’s accrediting official for SCIFs, ensuring that their facilities met the stringent security standards required for storing and processing the government’s most sensitive information.
After retiring from the CIA in 2020, he joined the aerospace, military, and information security company BAE Systems where he worked for almost five years as a program manager and government strategy consultant. That is, until Secom’s own Chief Sales Officer, Mike Kidwell, came calling.
“Mike hit me up and said, ‘Hey, how would you like to bring all your expertise over and join our team at Secom?’ And I thought, ‘Why not?’”
As Secom’s VP of Federal Sales, Bonievich is poised to further expand the company’s government footprint. His seasoned knowledge of SCIF development, ICD 705 compliance, and NISPOM standards seamlessly aligns with Secom’s earliest roots and makes him a formidable partner for agencies such as the DoS, DoD, and NRO.
Bonievich is excited to add his expertise to Secom’s work with SCIF work overall, and with the increasing need for modular SCIF units that can be erected in warehouse space and rented out to clients on a short-term basis. SCIFs can be unobtrusively leveraged in the homes of VIPs during transitions of administrations and Secom can be lock-step in helping to secure the nation’s intelligence.
Ron is excited that his expertise can contribute to the work that Secom is executing in this area and thrilled to be a part of a company that has valued teamwork and hard work for the past 20 years. “I’ve hit the ground running, and I’m thrilled to contribute”.