Access
Access control is the cornerstone of security—it monitors, manages, and enforces who can go where and when.

Brivo’s cloud-based platform delivers powerful, centralized access control for your buildings. Gain real-time visibility, automate entry permissions, and monitor all activity from a single, secure interface. Stay in control from anywhere, ensuring safety and operational efficiency at all times.

Comprehensive Visibility
Gain complete insight into your environment—from any device, anywhere—enabling faster incident response and improved situational awareness.

Data-Driven Insights
Leverage Brivo Access intelligence and activity analysis to transform actionable insights into smarter, data-driven decisions.

Access Control
Enhance the efficiency of your security operations and building health by controlling who has access, when, and how every event is monitored and tracked.

Open Integrations
Choose flexible technology solutions that seamlessly integrate with your existing hardware and scale with your evolving needs.

Visitor Management
Make hosting visitors and guests secure, seamless, and efficient. Brivo’s visitor management tools simplify check-ins, automate access permissions, and maintain complete visibility into who’s entering your facility—so you can enhance security while creating a welcoming experience.

Integrations
Security should evolve with your business. Brivo’s open API seamlessly integrates with your existing tools and technologies, empowering you to choose the devices, credentials, and solutions that meet your current needs—while giving you the flexibility to scale and adapt for the future.

The Critical Role of Security-by-Design

In today’s complex threat landscape, organizations must safeguard their employees, the public, and their own operations—not just from deliberate attacks but also from unplanned disruptions such as natural disasters. Shifting from a reactive to a proactive security posture is essential for minimizing costs and conserving resources. This begins with a foundational architectural principle: security-by-design.

Proactive by Design

Incorporating security expertise early in the design process allows teams to anticipate and address vulnerabilities before they materialize. Using threat intelligence, access control innovations, and security data, organizations can create environments that discourage threats and promote safe behavior—well before ground is broken.

“Security means a number of different things—it can mean heavy doors, cameras, guards… But it also means building things to discourage threats and encourage secure behavior. Integrating this from the start is the only way to do this right.”

Proactive planning also streamlines construction. Workers know what to build, the associated costs, and potential challenges, enabling safer, more efficient project execution.

Empowering Security Teams

Security-by-design reduces complexity, lowers operational overhead, and simplifies system integration. This empowers security teams to focus on higher-level priorities—like developing strategies, hunting threats, and responding to incidents—rather than troubleshooting poorly integrated systems. When security is built in from the beginning, teams can operate more effectively and efficiently.

Optimizing Projects from the Ground Up

Designing with security in mind ensures compliance with regulations and smooths the path to inspection approval. According to the Structure and Infrastructure Engineering Journal, design errors and changes during construction account for 52% of project overruns. Early integration of security helps avoid costly retrofits, delays, and compromises in both security and design aesthetics.

“Perhaps the biggest problem is that post-build fixes will be sub-optimal when compared to solving problems in the design stage…”

With clear plans in place, construction teams perform better, and designers can deliver spaces that are not only visually impressive but also secure.

Conclusion

Security-by-design isn’t just a best practice—it’s smart business. It aligns safety, functionality, and efficiency from day one, helping organizations build environments that are resilient, secure, and future-ready.