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INDUSTRY FOCUS With Ralph C. Jensen, Editor-in-Chief
The New Normal,
NIew Technology
just can’t seem to get my arms around have been in place being reassigned as a that phrase, “The New Normal.” I’m new partner. He writes about driving new not sure why it bothers me so much, be- approaches to cybersecurity. As the eco- cause how it see it ... every day is a new systems continues to expand, so does the day; every day something new is hap- threat landscape. With more devices being
pening. To me, the new normal sounds like connected there is an awareness of height-
we’re surrendering to a pest.
This industry, security and all its vari-
ants, including software has worked through bugs before. With persistence and determination, the industry wins; the pests are defeated. The security industry is no stranger at pushing the envelope. For the most part, I suppose those achievements have been step by step but there have been some quantum leaps.
The point is, security is always moving forward. Technology is evolving at such a rapid pace that it is hard to define where it all started, and if it will ever end. It likely will not.
Within the pages of this magazine, I have been fortunate to publish an article from Dr. Martin Gren. He says, “We are seeing more solutions being designed to serve mul- tiple purposes from safety and security to business operations.” The technology has been in place for years, and the natural evo- lution tends to offer solutions responding to a crisis. Security technology is being inte- grated within other technologies to provide security and safety in new ways.
Dr. Gren writes about several forth- coming technologies, or solutions that
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A few of the topics that Dr. Gren tack-
les are zero-trust networks, layered cyber- security, and device management and life- cycle management.
In concert with Dr. Gren, Fredrik Nilsson weighs in on resilience in the face of crisis. Now, this is what I like to read about. It is optimistic and deals with the reality we find ourselves to- day. Nilsson writes about the COVID-19 pan- demic and corporate global citizenship. The thought process behind COVID-19 involves the technology of touchless door entry solu- tions with Apps that can authenticate users and automatically open a door.
Some businesses are already using in- telligent IP audio systems, which will relay critical health information to everyone en- tering a building.
What about Nilsson’s thoughts on cor- porate global citizenship? I’ll give you a hint of what he is writing about, to include Planet, People and Profit. This is the real new normal. This is where the new normal bumps into technology, in a meeting.
accuracy, there is no guarantee that the same or similar results may be achieved in all environments. Technical inaccuracies may result from print- ing errors and/or new developments in the industry.
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