Data centers
Always on
Every site
Every door
Secure every identity. Govern every access decision. Across every data center.
Identity-driven physical security built for hyperscale, colocation, and mission-critical data center environments.
Data centers operate around the clock. With expanding facilities, complex security infrastructure, and a constant flow of employees, contractors, technicians, and customers, controlling physical access at scale is increasingly challenging.
Alert Enterprise Guardian unifies Physical Identity Access Management (PIAM) across your data center ecosystem, automating access provisioning, enforcing security policies, and providing centralized governance across your existing physical access control systems (PACS).
- Protect critical infrastructure
- Scale without compromise
- Simplify security operations
Hyperscale & colocation
Your data centers are scaling. Is your physical security keeping up?
As hyperscale and colocation environments expand, security teams must manage more facilities, more identities, and more sensitive infrastructure, often across disconnected PACS platforms, credential technologies, and operational processes.
Manual access approvals, fragmented contractor records, and inconsistent site-level policies introduce security gaps and unnecessary administrative overhead.
Guardian brings centralized intelligence, automation, and governance to your existing physical security ecosystem.
One platform to govern physical access across your entire data center footprint.
- Centralize access governance Apply consistent identity-driven policies across facilities, regions, and PACS technologies.
- Automate access lifecyclesProvision, modify, and revoke employee, contractor, and vendor access as authorization requirements change.
- Protect restricted infrastructureGovern permissions for data halls, server rooms, network infrastructure, and other high-risk areas.
- Eliminate excessive accessIdentify outdated privileges and reduce unnecessary standing access.
- Strengthen audit readinessMaintain traceable access decisions, approvals, reviews, and revocations.
Third-party access
Contractor access without the security gaps.
Data centers depend on contractors, maintenance teams, equipment vendors, and third-party technicians to keep critical infrastructure running.
Whether commissioning a new data hall, servicing cooling systems, or replacing network equipment, personnel need authorized access quickly, without introducing unnecessary risk.
Guardian automates third-party access from request to revocation.
Reduce manual badge administration, accelerate authorized access, and eliminate permissions that outlive the work they were intended to support.
When the work ends, the access ends.
Critical areas
Protect critical infrastructure and customer environments.
Not every door carries the same risk.
From shared operational spaces to highly restricted infrastructure, every area within a data center has different access requirements.
Guardian helps security teams enforce granular, identity-driven policies based on role, assignment, location, authorization, and business need.
Govern access to sensitive environments including:
For colocation operators, the challenge extends to managing multiple customers, each with distinct access requirements, authorized personnel, and service providers.
Guardian helps govern tenant-specific permissions, control access to customer-assigned spaces, and maintain visibility into authorized access across shared facilities.
One facility. Multiple customers. Distinct permissions. Centralized governance.
Every facility
One security governance model across every data center.
Different PACS. Different facilities. One governed access lifecycle.
Hyperscale and colocation operators often manage geographically distributed facilities with different physical access control systems, identity sources, and security processes. Expanding through new construction, acquisitions, and regional growth only adds complexity.
Guardian provides a centralized orchestration and governance layer that connects HR, identity management, contractor management, IT, and physical security systems.
Without replacing your existing PACS infrastructure, you can:
- Standardize access policies across facilities and regions.
- Reduce duplicate identities and fragmented access records.
- Gain enterprise-wide visibility into physical access permissions.
- Automate provisioning and deprovisioning across connected systems.
- Centralize access requests, approvals, and lifecycle workflows.
As new data centers come online, extend a consistent security governance model without multiplying manual processes or disconnected systems.
Continuous governance
Know who has access. Know why. Know when it should end.
Move beyond badge management to continuous access governance.
An active credential doesn’t necessarily mean someone should still have access. Employees change roles. Contractors complete assignments. Vendors rotate personnel. Projects end. Yet access privileges can remain active long after the original business need disappears.
Guardian connects physical permissions to identity, role, assignment, and policy, giving security teams visibility into who has access, where they can go, why access was granted, and whether it remains appropriate.
Automated provisioning, access reviews, and revocation workflows help identify excessive privileges, outdated permissions, and policy violations before they become persistent security gaps.
Don’t just manage credentials. Govern the identities and permissions behind them.
Compliance
Make compliance continuous. Not an audit-time scramble.
Every access decision should be traceable and defensible.
Data center operators face demanding security expectations from customers, auditors, regulators, and internal risk teams. Demonstrating that physical access is properly authorized, periodically reviewed, and promptly revoked can be difficult when evidence is scattered across disconnected systems.
Guardian centralizes physical access governance records to support applicable security and audit requirements, including controls associated with:
Maintain a consistent history across the full lifecycle:
Reduce manual evidence gathering while improving accountability and visibility across your data center environment.
Less time assembling evidence. More time strengthening security.
Secure the infrastructure the world depends on.
One platform
Every identity
Every access decision
Automated
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