Lee Odess is a leading voice in global access control and the founder of The Access Control Collective (TACC). TACC operates as a modern analyst, media firm, and creative agency for the physical security industry: content, community, events, and advisory work built for an industry moving from a $10 billion hardware business to a $70 to $100 billion software, identity, and platform business.

Lee’s central argument is that the winners in access control will be the companies that position themselves as software companies, or as hardware companies that enable software. How they get there varies. Owning the identity relationship, as the industry’s center of gravity shifts from the door to the person, is one path. Platform architecture, ecosystem position, and go-to-market are others. The path isn’t fixed, but the positioning is. Lee analyzes the market through three rooms: Core Security, the traditional $10 billion hardware and channel business; Adjacent Markets, the $70 billion world of identity, IAM, proptech, and cloud; and Mainstream, the $100 billion world of enterprise software, AI, and policy. TACC covers all three. Lee speaks in boardrooms and at conferences globally, from ISC West to The Security Event.

TACC’s platform includes The Secured Brief, now past 150 consecutive issues, the Secured Podcast (the official podcast of ISC and other events), Secured YouTube channel, the Secured Collective community of over 1,800 members and growing daily, and a LinkedIn following of over 25,000. TACC also runs ACS Events, invitation-only and sponsor-free global summits. ACS has been executed in North America, Europe and soon APAC.

Connect with Lee and join Corporate Access to the Secured Brief and community at leeodess.com/community.