The Secured Podcast

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 Americas and international businesses. We also cover five community articles on classroom safety, connected access control, specifications, digital wallet credentials, and the tools installers need in the field. Lee announces the Secured Lounge, built with RX Global for ISC East, and shares his My View on why physical security needs to get more sophisticated about how it communicates. The industry is reaching a mainstream audience, and technical communications alone won’t cut it anymore. Tune in for this week’s industry news, community insights, and a look at what comes next for physical security.

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 explore the growing gap between companies adapting to change and those holding on to familiar models. Plus, Lee breaks down why the security industry needs to rethink what “smart” really means, the latest moves from Ring, Apple, Rhombus, and Secure Passage, and why Genea’s new MCP server could signal a much bigger shift in access control.

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 it. Lee Odess sits down with: Allan Chester from Any2Any, Julia Webb Toomey from Wavelynx, Ian Bayly from TANlock, Mehdi Elhaoussine from LEGIC, Olivia Renaud from Allegion, Pete Jones from HID, and Juan Andres Arias from dormakaba. They explore the challenges holding mobile credentials back, the role of open standards like Aliro, the impact of budgets and internal incentives, and who will ultimately drive the industry forward. The conversation also looks at why companies need to move beyond selling hardware and products to demonstrating real customer value, what the future of identity could look like by Bergfest 2030, and what it will take to get there.

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 around credential interoperability. In My View, Lee takes a deeper look at visitor management and questions whether it is really its own category, or another way people interact with access control, identity, and the spaces around them. He also shares the story behind ACS26 in New Zealand, from a cold email that started it all to this year’s theme, “Our Mainstream Moment,” and what he believes it means for the industry.

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 about what’s happening behind the scenes at the company and how it is thinking about the future of identity and the access control ecosystem. Plus, Lee shares his latest “My View” on why the traditional integrator model may be changing and why depth could matter more than breadth in the Intelligence Era.