Washington, DC – April 1st, 2025 – IDCA has announced that former Amazon Regional Security Program Manager, Doug Dreher, has joined the organization's Technical Standards Committee, as the AI industry continues to evolve, and emerging standards have attained an even greater importance. Doug has in-depth experience across physical security, antiterrorism initiatives, force protection, intelligence analysis, and data center design and construction.

“I am honored and excited to join the International Data Center Authority’s Technical Standards Committee,” Dreher said in announcing his role with IDCA. “With the acceleration of data center construction globally, I feel it is imperative we strive for standardization and accreditation internationally.”

“The current AI wave is rapidly changing everything that the world knows about data design and operations, and the increasingly complex security challenges they face,” according to IDCA Head of North America Kurtis Friesen. “Collaborative standards are critical as a modern, holistic, and effective set of open standards that address AI, application, and Cloud needs, to bring transparency and enable simplified decision-making for end-users. Doug's vast experience in the technology industry brings great benefits to the work of the Technical Standards Committee.”

Doug has worked in federal and government positions, in the areas of vulnerability assessment and risk management, planning and analysis, security force oversight, and business continuity planning. In his current role as Director, Data Center Development at Gibraltar Perimeter Security, he serves as a subject matter expert for the design and installation of fully integrated security systems at data centers and other locations globally.

Prior to his current role, Doug held positions of increasing responsibility at Amazon Web Services, including Senior Physical Security Engineer, Regional Security Program Manager, and Security Program Manager. Before joining AWS, Doug served as an Antiterrorism/Physical Security Program Manager for the U.S. Government at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, where he developed and implemented security programs for twenty-three corporate enterprises. He also served as Director, Security Programs for the U.S. Government at Naval Weapons Station Earle.

About IDCA

International Data Center Authority (IDCA) is the global bipartisan digital economy think tank that works with nations to create AI policies, Digital Hubs and Digital Economies through the standardization of the approach, selection, design, feasibility, operation, and various processes and methodologies of digital infrastructure and related processes and systems.

The global IDCA team works with its partners and affiliates worldwide to achieve the optimum delivery of its advanced services locally and effectively at every project. IDCA is represented in more than 40 countries and active globally in North America, South America, Western Europe, Middle East, Eastern Europe, West Africa, North Africa, East Africa, Central, and South Africa, Southeast Asia, and Asia Pacific.