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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 reshaping how the world approaches security.This is where the industry's biggest questions get answered directly: what's actually driving the shift from hardware to software, why some companies are winning the platform transition while others get left behind, and what the data and the deals are really telling us about where this business is headed.Every episode covers what matters: the trends most people are missing, the strategies executives are actually using, and the decisions that will define the next chapter of this industry.If you lead a team, build a product, or make decisions in this space, Secured gives you the clarity to do it well.
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Signup to Generate a PitchAccess 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 reshaping how the world approaches security.
The Secured Podcast is hosted by The Access Control Collective. The show has published 80 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Partner Portal is Dead" (30 October 2026, 17 minutes), "HID Sells PKI, Allegion’s Two Company Story, and Why Security Needs to Get Sophisticated" (23 October 2026, 15 minutes), and "ACS26 in New Zealand and the MCP Moment" (16 October 2026, 24 minutes).
The Secured Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 16 minutes across 80 episodes.
Booking probability for The Secured Podcast is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Secured Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Secured Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
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The Access Control Collective hosts The Secured Podcast, a business podcast with 80 episodes published.
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The security industry is changing, and the latest moves from major players are making that clear. This week, Lee Odess breaks down Q3 earnings from ASSA ABLOY, Allegion, and dormakaba, the private equity acquisition of...
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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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This week, Secured goes live from ALOA — the American Locksmith Association's 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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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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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...
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