2026-01-12
Dr. Pongsak Wonglertkunakorn
When Social Context Changes, Security Must Understand “Context,” Not Just “Rules”
Dr. Pongsak Wonglertkunakorn
- Workplace Consultant
- Ph.D. in Management from National Institute of Development Administration
- M.S. in Computer and Information Science from University of Pennsylvania
- B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from Chulalongkorn University
Modern society no longer operates within fixed roles.
A single person may be an employee in the morning, a meeting organizer in the afternoon, and a visitor in another building later the same day.
From a theoretical perspective, this represents a shift from a role-based society to a contextual society.
As a result, traditional perimeter-based security models are no longer sufficient.
Modern security platforms must therefore rely on a context-aware security model,
one that evaluates security based on identity, location, time, and usage behavior.
Enterprise platforms designed with this approach do not simply ask:
“Who are you?”
but instead ask:
“What are you doing, and in what context?”
This concept has already been implemented in platforms that unify identity management, physical access control, and space utilization within a single system—
allowing security to align seamlessly with real-life work patterns and daily activities.