The Secured Podcast

This week on Secured, Lee Odess breaks down the latest news and ideas shaping the security industry, starting with Rhombus’ new DC10 single-door controller and EliseAI’s latest funding round and approach to multifamily. He also highlights three stories from The Secured Brief, covering macroeconomic risk in access control, what happens in the seconds after an AI-generated alert, and the challenges...

This week on The Secured Podcast, Lee Odess breaks down some of the biggest conversations happening across the security industry, from Cognex’s $500 million acquisition of RealSense and the rise of Physical AI to the growing need for OSDP education as the protocol becomes more widely adopted. He also sits down with Heather Torrey and Bret Holbrook of dormakaba Americas for an open conversation abo...

Lee Odess and Hilary Gallagher are live from VerkadaOne in Miami, where three years of announcements compounded into a single five-hour keynote. In this episode, they break down what actually mattered, why it wasn't really about any one product, and what it signals for where the industry is going. They also cover the bigger moves from the week: Cobalt AI drawing a hard line between detection and j...

This week on Secured, Lee Odess digs into SIA’s new ALPR guidance, the growing debate around privacy and public safety, and why the industry needs to get ahead of these conversations. He also looks at LEAF’s new end user committee and what happens when enterprise security teams have a seat at the table shaping credential standards. Lee highlights his conversation with Acre Security CEO Kumar Sokka...

What happens when the industry stops thinking about access control as a product category and starts thinking about it as a platform? This week on Secured, Lee Odess looks at dormakaba’s latest results and the end of its three-year transformation, Acre’s push toward a more unified platform, and what both say about where physical security is headed. He also digs into two community contributions that...

This week on Secured, Lee Odess gets into some of the biggest stories moving through the security industry right now, from dormakaba’s acquisition of Apollo Security and Azure Access Technology to Verkada’s latest move at Hard Rock Stadium.   He also looks at iLOQ’s continued growth, Ambient.ai’s move into AI agents, and the ongoing conversation around Flock, LPR, surveillance, and governance...

This week's Secured is a different one. I'm recording early — heading to Japan with my family, my kids picked it — and we're taking next week off. So instead of one big story, this episode is the sharpest things I read, heard, and talked about this week, plus my case for why independents matter more than ever. In this episode: Phil Kirschner (The Workline) joins me on the seam nobody wants to own...

PDQ Manufacturing acquires Command Access Technologies. ASSA ABLOY signs to buy Gunnebo Entrance Control. Splan becomes a launch partner in SailPoint's Unified Platform Access Program, announced at Black Hat with real commercial terms behind it. Honeywell completes its exit from Productivity Solutions and Services, closing out its pure-play automation pivot. And ADI Global Distribution goes public...

This week: Allegion posts its strongest quarter on record, and Lee wonders if the company everyone compares it to is even its peer anymore. The theme: an industry still keeping score on yesterday's scorecard while the game moved somewhere else. In this episode: - Allegion's record Q2, and why the ASSA ABLOY comparison is getting useless -ASSA ABLOY buys Classic Brass, the bolt-on discipline that k...

Everyone watched the World Cup. Almost nobody saw the security operation running underneath it — or the deal that just redrew the access control map. This week on Secured, the industry's platform era stops being a theory. SwiftConnect signs a definitive agreement to acquire HID's Workforce Business Unit — HID SAFE, Visitor Manager, EasyLobby, and HID Integration Services — with HID taking a minori...

This week, Lee breaks down why VTS — which covers over 60% of Class A office space in the US — walked away from building access control in-house to partner with SwiftConnect instead, and what that says about where real value lives in this industry. Then, access control data goes mainstream as Kastle Systems' Mark Ein appears on CNBC's Closing Bell to talk occupancy data across 3,500 buildings in 1...

In this episode of "Secured," Lee Odess breaks down one of the most talked-about security stories of the week: the viral Empire State Building climb and engagement, dissecting not just the spectacle but the physical security questions it raises for one of the world’s most surveilled buildings. He also covers Dormakaba’s acquisition of the UK’s leading movable wall distributor, Style Group, and unp...

Episode 22 | $4 Billion Says Your Door Controller Is a Cybersecurity Asset. Is Your Company Listening? This week, Lee breaks down Verkada's move to scale its physical AI platform to 2.4 million devices across 170 countries with new backing from Nvidia — and why the real story isn't the investment, it's the category claim. Then: Accenture pays $4.175 billion for a majority stake in Dragos, Run Zero...

This week, Secured goes live from ALOA — the Associated Locksmiths of America annual show in Las Vegas — with three guests from the locksmith trade reacting in real time to the week's biggest stories in physical security. Joining Lee: Wayne Winton, Dave O'Toole, and Jason Montague. This episode focuses on the Secured podcast broadcast directly from the event floor. We have 3 locksmiths joining the...

The security industry is facing a massive inflection point that will define the next fifty years of business. With OpenAI investing 150 million dollars into a formal partner network, the line between security integrators and enterprise software consultants is officially blurring. This episode explores why waiting for the market to settle is the riskiest strategy you can take right now. Chapters: 0...

Welcome to Secured Presents: West to East, a 45+ episode series filmed live at ISC West where we bring the biggest voices in security into real, unfiltered conversations. In this episode, we’re joined by Jean-Baptiste Milan, Global OEM Sales Manager at HID, and Carter Kennedy, CEO of Soloinsight. We dive into: The collaboration between HID and Soloinsight to bring biometrics into the CloudGate pla...

Welcome to Secured Presents: West to East, a 45+ episode series filmed live at ISC West where we bring the biggest voices in security into real, unfiltered conversations. In this episode, we’re joined by Charles Johnson Founder and CEO of NGA Security Advisors LLC We dive into: Negligent security and premises liability How foreseeable risk is evaluated after an incident The role of planning, docum...

Welcome to Secured Presents: West to East, a 45+ episode series filmed live at ISC West where we bring the biggest voices in security into real, unfiltered conversations. In this episode, we’re joined by Jacob Hengel, CTO of YourSix. In this episode, we dive into: Video intelligence platforms Real-time monitoring and analytics Data aggregation across systems And how video is evolving beyond survei...

Welcome to Secured Presents: XPod from The Security Event. In Episode 3, Lee Odess closes out the series with a bigger question: is physical security having its mainstream moment? The answer from the show floor was not simple. Across 12 different voices, the “moment” looked different depending on where each person sat in the industry. Some pointed to AI and agents changing integration economics. O...

Physical access control is no longer just a door hardware problem. It has evolved into a critical identity infrastructure challenge that connects physical and digital operations across every major industry. In this episode of Secured, we break down the findings from a comprehensive new report published in partnership with Acre Security. We dive deep into three critical verticals: education, health...

Welcome to Secured Presents: West to East, a 45+ episode series filmed live at ISC West where we bring the biggest voices in security into real, unfiltered conversations. In this episode, we’re joined by Darren Bain, VP of Strategy at RightCrowd. In this episode, we dive into: Workforce identity management Access governance in enterprise environments Compliance and operational efficiency And how i...

Welcome to Secured Presents: West to East, a 45+ episode series filmed live at ISC West where we bring the biggest voices in security into real, unfiltered conversations. In this episode, we’re joined by Lucas Mason, Marketing Manager at Centrios. In this episode, we dive into: The role of messaging in the security industry How companies differentiate themselves The importance of brand clarity And...

Welcome to Secured Presents: West to East, a 45+ episode series filmed live at ISC West where we bring the biggest voices in security into real, unfiltered conversations. In this episode, we're joined by Joelle Hushen, Founder & President of the NICP and the US CPTED Association. In this episode, we dive into: What CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) actually is — and why it...

Welcome to Secured Presents: West to East, a 45+ episode series filmed live at ISC West where we bring the biggest voices in security into real, unfiltered conversations. In this episode, we’re joined by Matt Kopel, CEO and President of SwiftConnect. In this episode, we dive into: Mobile-first access strategies Frictionless entry experiences The role of digital identity ecosystems And how user exp...

In Part 2 of our XPod series from The Security Event, we look at one of the most repeated assumptions in physical security: that regulation is a tax on innovation. The voices in this episode push back on that idea. When regulation is done right, it can force better product discipline, stronger architecture, cleaner data practices, and trust with buyers who cannot afford to get security, privacy, o...