ACCESS CONTROL AS A SERVICE
There is no server in the closet.
That is the entire point.
Drawbridge Cloud runs your access control the way your email already works — hosted, maintained, backed up and monitored by us, reachable from any device, with nothing on site to patch, replace or budget for. For over 30 years AMT has protected people and property without complexity, lock-in, or excessive cost.
Nothing to maintain
No server, no database, no operating system, no patch cycle, no replacement project in year five.
No IT involvement needed
Add a person, change a schedule, run a report —from the front office, not from a ticket queue.
Backed up every hour
Continuous backups, verified, and isolated so ransomware cannot reach them.
THE CASE
What you stop doing
On-premise access control asks a building to run a piece of IT infrastructure that has nothing to do with the building. Somebody specifies the server, patches it, backs it up, restores it when it fails, and replaces it when the vendor drops support. Usually that somebody has four other jobs.
ON-PREMISE SYSTEM
DRAWBRDIGE CLOUD
ON-PREMISE
Backups if someone set them up, restores if they worked
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Hourly backups, verified, isolated from ransomware
ON-PREMISE
Upgrades as projects, quoted and scheduled
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Updates arrive; nothing to schedule
ON-PREMISE
Remote access through whatever IT allows
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Any browser, any device, by design
ON-PREMISE
Capital purchase, then a replacement cycle
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No upfront setup cost, predictable ongoing cost
ON-PREMISE
Monitoring only when someone is watching
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Automated and live monitoring, continuously
Every row on the left is work your organization is doing today. The page you are reading is a list of things you can stop doing.
OWNERSHIP COST
What it stops costing
No upfront setup cost
The system does not start with a server purchase and a professional services line.
Backed up every hour
Maintenance, monitoring and backups are the service, not a separate contract and not a separate person.
No IT infrastructure to carry
No hardware refresh, no OS licensing, no database administration, no closet.
Bring your own devices
Staff use the phones and laptops they already have. No dedicated securityworkstation.
Ask us to run the numbers against what you are paying now — server, support hours, upgrade cycle and all. It is a short conversation and it is usually the one that decides it.
THE OBJECTION
“Isn't the cloud less secure?”
It is a fair question, and the honest answer is that it depends entirely on who is doing the work.
A server in a closet is as secure as the last time someone patched it. Many on-premise access control systems run on an operating system that is a few updates behind, backedup to a drive on the same network. That is not negligence — it is what happens when securing the security system is somebody's fifth priority.
Drawbridge runs on AWS infrastructure with a hardened, multi-layer, secure-by-design architecture, and AMT does the work full time: patching, certificate management, live monitoring, and backups that are verified and isolated so ransomware reaching your network cannot reach them. It is the same argument that moved email to the cloud, and it held up there.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
What AMT runs so you don't
Every item below is work that exists in an on-premise deployment too. The difference is who does it.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Servers and IT infrastructure — everything needed to support your users and their mobile devices, hosted and maintained by AMT.
Digital certificate management — secure, encrypted, authenticated access, with certificates renewed before they expire rather than after something breaks.
Performance tuning on the fly — capacity adjusted as your site count and door count grow, without a migration project.
BACKUP AND RECOVERY
Verified backups — continuous, not nightly, not weekly.
Digital certificate management — a backup nobody has tested is a hope. Ours are checked.
Ransomware-isolated copies — backups held where an intrusion on your network cannot reach or encrypt them.
MONITORING
Automated and live monitoring — both machine watching and people watching, continuously.
Resource and capacity monitoring — network, server, database, memory and disk, so constrained resources are found before they become an outage.
Ransomware-isolated copies — backups held where an intrusion on your network cannot reach or encrypt them.
Unusual and suspicious activity monitoring — behavior that does not fit the pattern gets looked at.
Predictive maintenance and live monitoring at this level are not practical in an on-premise deployment. That is not a criticism of anyone's IT department — it is a question of whether this is the thing they should be spending their week on.
THE SYSTEM
Delivery model aside, it still has to be good.
Intuitive enough that the front office runs it; customers report up to 90% reductions in learning time and tech support calls
The same interface on every desktop and mobile device
Familiar, web-like search rather than a console to be trained on
Notifications by text and email, defined by the user
Threat level management and instant lockdown
Notifications by text and email, defined by the user