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The Refuge of Hope Ministries homeless shelter uses an access control system from Sielox to secure its facilities. Read more in this case study.

Securing physical or digital assets are at the heart of reducing enterprise and business risks. Identity management solutions help enterprises verify a user’s identity and ensure that only authorized users access facilities, applications, systems or networks. Let’s explore a sampling of the latest identity management solutions.

Today’s security threat landscape necessitates that security leaders work on an ongoing, effective security awareness program, tackling the inherent challenge of employee participation.  

With unmanned aircraft as a tool for their security teams, enterprise security can expand situational awareness, while making more effective use of a company’s human resources.

Smart video surveillance with artificial intelligence-enabled analytics can allow security leaders to gain efficiencies in response times, investigations and incident detection across healthcare organizations, all while protecting privacy and reducing false alarms.

Stephanie Jaros, Director of Research for the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) counter-insider threat program, talks to Security about the integration of the human and behavioral sciences into insider threat mitigation, as well as the criticality of the timeline when it comes to addressing such risks.

This year, on October 13th, the BlackBerry Security Summit 2021 took place — fully virtual. Keynote speakers included a range of BlackBerry organizational leaders across specialties, from Cybersecurity and Threat Detection to Product Management and Engineering.

This month’s leadership columnist Mike Gips proposes a satirical alternative to the need for leadership prevailing in security today, taking inspiration from essayist Jonathan Swift and his “Modest” proposal for addressing food scarcity, malnourishment, blight and overpopulation within Ireland in the 1700s.

An exit strategy is not necessarily top of mind if you are enjoying a successful security career. How do you start planning your exit strategy when you are no longer seeking professional advancement?

One of the insights that this year’s security leaders shared with us was which metrics their security programs and the C-suite find most valuable — and we found some overarching trends in this area.