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HID Sells PKI, Allegion’s Two Company Story, and Why Security Needs to Get Sophisticated
This week on Secured, Lee Odess breaks down HID’s decision to sell its PKI business to Vista Equity Partners and what it means to know what not to own. Plus, Allegion’s Q3 results reveal a growing divide between its...
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ACS26 in New Zealand and the MCP Moment
Lee Odess and Hilary Gallagher are back from ACS26 in New Zealand with a look at the conversations and industry shifts that stood out. They share highlights from a week built around community and local culture, then...
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We've built the future. We just haven't built the bridge to it…
Recorded live at Bergfest 2026 in Munich, this episode brings together leaders from across the access control industry to discuss the gap between where the technology is heading and how quickly the market is adopting...
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Visitor Management Isn't a Product Category. It's the Land Grab.
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...
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Why Depth Now Beats Breadth
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...
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Live from VerkadaOne: Physical AI, Transportation, and Two Acquisitions
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...
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The Water Treatment Hack That Should Scare You
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...
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Could Cheaper, More Open Access Control Hardware Help Make Schools Safer?
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...
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Flock and LPR as a Category Are Losing Right Now
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...
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Silicon Valley Is Coming For Your Lunch Money
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...
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The Access Control Buyout Wave Isn't Killing This Industry. It's Saving It.
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...
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Allegion & ASSA ABLOY: Are They Even Playing the Same Game Anymore?
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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