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Zero trust has become the latest buzzword in the security industry. It’s helpful to analyze the model from the attacker’s perspective to identify assumptions or actions that could provide a foothold for cybercriminals.

COVID-19 created an identity and access weak point, but here’s how next-gen identity and access management can help.

MultiCare Health System based in Washington State has begun a journey of unifying its video surveillance management and access control under one platform.

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has served as one of the largest processors of COVID-19 tests in the country. The Security Team has supported these efforts in myriad ways, helping maintain business continuity and ensure campus safety, visitor management, and compliance with COVID-19 safety protocols.

Security spoke to Kimber Goerres, Security Systems Integration & Project Management Lead at Sony Electronics, who has served diligently in her role, ensuring the company’s error or down rate is nominal and establishing the technical security requirements for Sony offices globally. Here, Goerres speaks about her role, establishing technical security requirements and ensuring improved security levels through risk, vulnerability and audit assessments.

In the 2021 annual Access Control Trends Review, there has been a significant increase in businesses using their smartphone as their key, 64% more than last year. In addition, data shows most people have returned or will return to the office soon, by September 2021. 

Now, user experience is at the forefront of the evolution of security technology, with devices being developed that both enhance and simplify the way in which people interact with security solutions.   One significant advancement for the security industry has been the development and introduction of frictionless access control technology – a solution that alters and simplifies the overall user experience.