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INDUSTRY FOCUS With Ralph C. Jensen, Editor-in-Chief Looking Forward tTo 2 0 2 3 been and will continue to be a concern. Ben Williams, senior director of product management at ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions, says that devices are more inter- connected now, than ever before. What we know is that cybersecurity is increasingly more important. In Oregon and California, laws have been enacted that go beyond awareness, and that will hold companies more ac- countable for protection against cybersecu- rity threats in IoT devices. Access control solutions will include credential flexibility as this technology continues to evolve. It is a lot to wrap one’s head around all the change, technology and forward think- ing. Thankfully, there is a rather large brain trust in the industry that can/will explain all of this. Mind you, these same people will be working on something new for 2024. Finally, the winning security solutions from our New Product of the Year contest on within these pages. 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