ADT Security Services and Brivo Systems announced the implementation of a web-based access control solution for five federal facilities managed by the General Services Administration (GSA) in Detroit and the Chicago area. The Brivo solution helps fulfill Homeland Security/Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), intended to enhance security and reduce identity fraud at all federal facilities by establishing common identification standards for employees and contractors.
ADT is working with Brivo Systems, a provider of Software as a Service applications (SaaS) for security management. The GSA project employs Brivo's network appliance at each facility.
The current project began with the McNamara Federal Building, a 27-story structure in downtown Detroit that serves as home to many federal agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration.
ADT was also awarded a contract to implement similar systems, using the Brivo solution, for four GSA-operated buildings in the Chicago area. Among the five total facilities, ADT installed card readers at 55 access points used by 8,000 employees of about 50 federal agencies.
Jeremy Niksic, GSA's Physical Security Specialist for the region that includes Chicago, said the agency wanted a system that was open and compliant with FIPS 201, the federal government standard that specifies personal identity verification (PIV) requirements for federal employees and contractors. He said GSA also wanted to be able to use the latest PIV 2 standard for government-issued smartcards that provide enhanced interoperability and unify identity verification for use in both physical and logical access control.
“We felt that ADT and Brivo were fully capable of meeting all provisions of those requirements,” Niksic said. Niksic also added that the new systems put GSA in position to transition toward cloud computing.