September 2020

Part 5 – Maslow’s Tech Hierarchy: A 5-Step Method for Evaluating Your Access Control & Security Needs in a Post-COVID World

Continued from Part 4 Maslow’s Tech Method Steps 3 & 4 Step 3 – Love & Belonging, Allowing Effective Group Dynamics and Cooperation The third level of our tech pyramid, or set of ingredients for the best security recipe, is what Maslow called ‘Love and Belonging.’ This is actually not as abstract as it initially …

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Part 4 – Maslow’s Tech Hierarchy: A 5-Step Method for Evaluating Your Access Control & Security Needs in a Post-COVID World

Continued from Part 3 Now that we know we need a method, some philosophical handbook to help us negotiate the tumultuous sea of security and access control products beyond computational benchmarks, Maslow’s sundial for the infinitely complex foundation of human needs can do just that. It is a way of calculating how far a product …

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Part 3 – Maslow’s Tech Hierarchy: A 5-Step Method for Evaluating Your Access Control & Security Needs in a Post-COVID World

Continued from Part 2 Part 3: Security and Access Control Technology Through the Lens of Human Needs   Today, Maslow’s pyramid is so ubiquitous that most people are at least vaguely familiar with the concept. In an article reviewed by clinical psychologist David Susman, Cherry argues that, “Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is one of the …

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Part 2 – Maslow’s Tech Hierarchy: A 5-Step Method for Evaluating Your Access Control & Security Needs in a Post-COVID World

Continued from Part 1 Part 2: ‘How To’ Compare Security and Access Control Tech without a Method   There is a huge gap in the literature-base on how to compare security and access control technology; it is actually less of a gap and more of a chasm. On the one side are well intentioned but …

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Part 1 – Maslow’s Tech Hierarchy: A 5-Step Method for Evaluating Your Access Control & Security Needs in a Post-COVID World

Part 1: A Time of Uncertainty with No Shortage of Options   There can be no doubt that the COVID-19 outbreak has been a “transformational event” ushering in monumental change, “restructuring” the very foundations of our business and social landscape.[1] It has brought with it a profound sense of uncertainty across almost all industries; Gaillard …

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