For small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), physical security and safety is often a balancing act. Management needs to protect employees, visitors, property and assets, but budget, personnel and infrastructure limitations often lay the best planned intentions to rest. That makes it especially important to get more value from the security technology already in place.

With the right platform, access control can do more than decide who gets through a door.

The Sielox Pinnacle™ Access Control Platform helps mid-size organizations move from simply reacting to security events to identifying potential problems before they escalate by turning access control data into actionable business intelligence.

Access Control Is More Than a Locked Door

Traditional access control is about permissions: Does this person have the right credential to enter this door at this time?

Modern access control can answer much bigger questions:

  • Is someone trying to enter a restricted area?
  • Did someone’s credential just expire?
  • Is someone propping a door open?
  • Are contractors entering the premises when they aren’t supposed to be?
  • Is your security device not working properly, putting your building at risk?

Pinnacle uses advanced, user-selectable filters to identify these types of events and provide real-time notifications. In other words, the system can turn the activity already happening across a facility into actual intelligence that security and operations teams can use.

That distinction is particularly valuable for mid-size businesses, where a small security or facilities team may be responsible for monitoring an entire building or multiple locations.

From Reactive to Proactive Security Protection

Without intelligent filtering, access control data can quickly become background noise. Pinnacle’s pre-emptive filtering helps bring important events to the surface.

Device management filters can monitor the status and performance of access-related devices, helping identify system failures, unusual door activity and other issues. Alarm and event management filters can help distinguish meaningful security events from routine activity, reducing the burden of false alarms and allowing personnel to focus on situations that require attention.

The platform can also help identify potential insider threats through events like repeated denied access attempts, expired credentials or attempts to enter restricted areas.

That can mean a security team doesn’t have to watch every door all day to maintain effective oversight, and what would have otherwise been written off as a mistake might get a second look. The system allows security teams to focus other tasks, relying on the access control system to flag the information that truly deserves their attention.

Make Access Work for the Business, Too

Pinnacle can support privileged access management, contractor access, occupancy management, time and attendance, compliance and auditing. Businesses can establish different access levels based on employees’ roles, locations and schedules, while maintaining a record of access activity.

Together, these capabilities can help streamline everyday operations while giving security and facilities teams better visibility into how people move through and use the workplace.

Upon termination, employee access rights can be revoked without reconfiguring doors. When granting temporary access for a contractor, permissions can be set around specified timeframes to limit access. Should an organization need to look into an incident, access history serves as a documented record to help determine what occurred and who was involved.

Because Pinnacle is scalable, organizations can start with the requirements they have today and expand as their facilities, workforce and security needs grow.

Intelligence That Scales With Your Business

Pinnacle offers multiple configurations designed to accommodate organizations ranging from smaller businesses to larger, multi-site operations. Its open architecture supports leading electronic locks, credentials and readers, while features like wireless lock support can simplify expansion.

Pinnacle also provides capabilities including web-based management, video verification, configurable event notifications, lockdown and muster reporting, visitor management, photo ID badging and flexible time zones and schedules.

Critically, Sielox has committed to developing new integrations with locks, credentials, readers, and new access technologies as they emerge, so your investment today will reap benefits into tomorrow and beyond, regardless of how technology evolves.

Put Your Access Control Data to Work

Every access-controlled facility generates information about who enters, when they enter, where they go and what happens when they interact with the security system.

With Sielox Pinnacle, SMBs turn access control into a proactive source of security and operational intelligence. By identifying anomalies, managing access intelligently and bringing important events to the attention of the right people in real time, Pinnacle helps businesses make smarter use of the technology they already depend on.