The Secured Podcast

The Secured Podcast

Hosted by: The Access Control Collective

Access Granted. Secured is the podcast for anyone in, or curious about, the physical security and access control industry. Each week, Lee Odess breaks down the business moves, technology shifts, and power dynamics...

Episodes

Allegion & ASSA ABLOY: Are They Even Playing the Same Game Anymore?

Season #3

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...
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SwiftConnect Just Bought 20 Years of Trust: Inside the HID SAFE Deal

Season #3

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...
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Access Control Hit CNBC — And VTS Made the Industry's Biggest Reversal

Season #3

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...
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How Extreme Climbers Made a Mainstream Security Story in Manhattan

Season #3

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...
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$4 Billion Says Your Door Controller Is a Cybersecurity Asset. Is Your Company Listening?

Season #3

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...
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The Most Downstream Trade in Physical Security Reacts to Its Own Disruption | Live from ALOA

Season #3

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...
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OpenAI’s $150M Bet: A New Era for Security Integrators?

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...
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Secured Presents: West to East with Jacob Hengel

Season #3

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...
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Secured Presents: West to East With Charles Johnson

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...
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Secured Presents: West to East with Jean-Baptiste Milan and Carter Kennedy

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...
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TSE 26 Episode 3 — The Mainstream Moment Is Real, But It Is Not Singular.

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...
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Physical Access Control is Now Identity Infrastructure

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...
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