MaximumASP Achieves High-level Security with Brivo
Company very pleased with "granular" control in protecting customer's assets
Bethesda, MD, June 08, 2010 - Brivo Systems LLC, the leader in Software as a Service applications for security management, today announced that MaximumASP and its sister company MaximumColo have deployed a Brivo OnSite SE/XE™ solution for upgraded access control capabilities in their co-location and managed hosting facility. MaximumASP, a Web-hosting firm located in Louisville, Kentucky, is a recipient of the prestigious 2009 Microsoft Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year award. The integrator for the project is ADT.
As both a managed hosting and co-location facility, it is essential that MaximumASP provide a very high level of security for their many clients. Both operations are housed in the same building and the relatively new co-location business is growing at a good pace. “Brivo allows us to effectively control security for our three different ‘customers’: our employees, our vendors, and our direct customers,” said Stacy Griggs, Vice President of Sales, MaximumASP. “The co-location operation houses equipment for multiple competing telecom carriers and each must have access to their own gear while maintaining strict separation between them.”
The Brivo system manages all the buildings’ outside doors and those internal doors to each customer’s equipment areas. During business hours, a user need only go through two secure doors to reach their designated area; after hours, there are three secure doors. All door readers are equipped with biometric access as well as a keypad for entering a PIN number—both are required for entry. In the employee-only areas of the building, access is gained with a proximity card.
“We had another access control system at our prior location,” Griggs related, “but we did not have the granular control we have with Brivo. The system took a long time to give us each biometric reading and we wanted more sophisticated control on all of the doors so we can provide our customers with the protected and documented access they need.”
“We selected Brivo for their modular system architecture, which allows us to grow and add new control panels as our facility increases in size,” commented Eric Peek, Director of Information Security. “As a new and ever-expanding co-location datacenter we do not know how many doors or input/output devices we will need in the future. With Brivo, we can continue to expand our access control needs as fast as our business grows.”
At present, the Brivo system controls 10 doors for a total of 60 users, but as the co-location business continues to grow and new sections of the building are brought online, MaximumASP expects to have several hundred users divided into multiple access groups for employees, each of their customers, and all their different sub-contractors.
MaximumASP was able to make use of their existing control panels thanks to Brivo's DataSync solution, an XML API that enables integration between the Brivo system and the end user’s legacy hardware and data. Peek again, “The best feature of the Brivo system is their open XML API that allows us to integrate our custom control panel into the access control system. With this API we can use our control panel to add users, add groups, suspend users/groups, and even control things such as doors and other input/output devices connected to our Brivo access panels. The reporting and notification options are also great features that other competing access control systems just do not have.”
“The Brivo user interface is configurable enough to allow very granular control over the system but easy enough to use so that entry level personnel can be trained to perform daily tasks like adding/deleting users,” Peek concluded.
About MaximumColo
MaximumColo, based in Louisville, Kentucky is a colocation, managed services, and outsourced disaster recover (DR) company. Our highly-redundant 33,000 square foot facility features the latest technologies in security and power effectives. This green datacenter is designed to consume 30% less power than other facilities in the region.
About MaximumASP
MaximumASP, based in Louisville, Kentucky, was founded in 2000 as an outsourceing firm for Windows-based hosting services. MaximumASP was named by Microsoft as its 2009 Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year. The company currently hosts more than 50,000 domains for customers in over 120 countries. With a strong focus on cloud computing and managed hosting plans that combine advanced monitoring and management tools, MaximumASP has become a top choice for companies looking to host PCIor HIPAA compliant applications and enterprises that require high availability hosting solutions. For more information visit www.maximumasp.com
About Brivo Systems
Brivo Systems LLC provides an online, open-system security management technology platform that empowers organizations to protect and remotely monitor buildings and perimeter entry points using the latest in Internet and wireless technologies. With Brivo’s security management system, customers significantly expand their physical access control system by customizing functionality to exactly fit their needs and more effectively mitigate and manage security risk. The company’s hardware products and software services enable businesses to control physical access to offices, warehouses, remote/unmanned buildings, as well as sensitive areas such as computer rooms, where real-time control and accountability of entry are critical. 2009 marked 10 years of Brivo making security simple for thousand of end users around the world.
Brivo is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Duchossois Group, a privately held holding company, headquartered in Elmhurst, Illinois, which owns AMX, The Chamberlain Group and Milestone AV Technologies. Duchossois also holds strategic interests in Churchill Downs, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHDN), and a number of other diversified businesses.
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