AMAG Technology™, known for its advancements in the realm of physical security and identity management, has unveiled Symmetry CONNECT 2.0. This new solution continues AMAG’s commitment to enhancing identity-first physical access control amidst increasingly complex enterprise environments.
Many businesses today face challenges due to the absence of a unified access control system. With factors such as mergers, acquisitions, and an expanding global footprint, organizations often manage a patchwork of systems that add complexity and risk.
Collaboration with SwiftConnect
AMAG has collaborated with SwiftConnect, a company providing interconnected access networks, to introduce an effective identity and access management system.
Symmetry CONNECT 2.0 is designed to facilitate seamless identity management across multiple platforms, integrating various systems while minimizing disruptions to existing infrastructure. This system allows security personnel to manage a single identity across mixed and varied systems and locations.
Addressing Identity and Access Challenges
"Symmetry CONNECT 2.0 solves a real-world problem our customers face all the time: managing access rights consistently across multiple access control systems, often inherited through mergers, acquisitions, and growth," stated Jennifer Marx, Executive Vice President of Product Management at AMAG Technology.
Further emphasizing the product’s compatibility with existing and competing platforms, Marx added, "We listened and delivered a solution that works with Symmetry and competing platforms, so our customers can manage identities and access with greater speed and confidence."
Enhanced User Interface and Processes
Symmetry CONNECT 2.0 features a modern unified UI to manage identity detailsThe release of Symmetry CONNECT 2.0 includes a contemporary, unified user interface, enabling teams to manage identity details efficiently — from credentials and roles to onboarding and approvals. These changes propagate automatically across all connected systems, leading to reduced errors and enhanced operational efficiency.
Symmetry CONNECT is built around five core components: onboarding/offboarding, centralized policy enforcement, self-service access requests, a streamlined user experience, and audit and compliance enhancements. These elements aim to replace fragmented and manual processes — traditionally managed through emails, spreadsheets, and phone calls — with a more centralized and cohesive approach.
Advancing Identity Management
According to Marx, "Identity is the center of access control administration. Symmetry CONNECT helps customers replace manual, inconsistent processes with an automated approach to identity operations, improving transparency, reducing risk, and strengthening audit readiness across an organization." Customers using Symmetry CONNECT 2.0 can manage identities across various sites, maintain oversight in audits, and modernize identity processes while retaining existing systems.
This advancement supports more efficient onboarding, reduces risks associated with orphaned access, and aligns with global business growth, allowing for progressive integration during acquisitions and control system consolidation. For integrators, CONNECT 2.0 offers a framework for standardizing identity practices, enabling swift service delivery with minimal disruption and fostering sustainable identity lifecycle and policy service development.
AMAG Technology™, a global pioneer in physical security and identity management solutions, announced the release of Symmetry CONNECT 2.0, the next evolution of AMAG’s identity-first approach to physical access administration.
Many enterprises do not operate single access control systems anymore. Mergers, acquisitions, global growth, and decentralised operations create a patchwork of systems that are difficult to manage, increase risk, and slow response.
Partnership
AMAG Technology partnered with SwiftConnect, provider of the connected access network for places and spaces, to offer a dynamic physical identity and access management system that allows streamlined identity management across multiple access systems.
Built for the reality of multi-system enterprises, Symmetry CONNECT 2.0 helps customers unify a single identity across disparate physical access control systems while preserving existing infrastructure and minimizing disruption. Security operators manage one identity while scaling across multiple, mixed systems and buildings.
Managing identities and access
“Symmetry CONNECT 2.0 solves a real-world problem our customers face all the time: managing access rights consistently across multiple access control systems, often inherited through mergers, acquisitions, and growth,” said Jennifer Marx, Executive Vice President of Product Management, AMAG Technology.
“We listened and delivered a solution that works with Symmetry and competing platforms, so our customers can manage identities and access with greater speed and confidence.”
User interface
Symmetry CONNECT 2.0 delivers a modern, streamlined single user interface where teams can manage every aspect of an identity. From the same view, operators can manage credentials, access rights and roles, onboarding and offboarding, and approvals.
Operators can manage it all from one screen, and changes are applied everywhere, reducing errors and increasing efficiency.
Symmetry CONNECT
Symmetry CONNECT centers on five core processes: onboarding/offboarding, centralised policy enforcement, self-service access requests, streamlined user experience, and audit and compliance.
These are areas where work is disconnected and manual, involving emails, spreadsheets, phone calls and memory-based processes, which increases risk and slows operations. Symmetry CONNECT is designed to reduce that friction by using a more centralised, identity-centered approach.
“Identity is the center of access control administration,” said Marx. “Symmetry CONNECT helps customers replace manual, inconsistent processes with an automated approach to identity operations, improving transparency, reducing risk, and strengthening audit readiness across an organization.”
With Symmetry CONNECT 2.0, customers can:
- Manage one identity across multiple sites and systems to support clean audits and simpler lifecycle management.
- Preserve existing access control investments preventing a rip-and-replace scenario while modernising identity operations over time.
- Improve onboarding and offboarding speed and consistency with centralised policy-driven administration.
- Reduce orphaned access risk by improving visibility and control across disparate access systems.
- Scale globally, supporting acquisitions and access control system consolidation at the customer’s pace.
- For integrators, CONNECT 2.0 helps standardize identity across disparate systems, deliver value quickly with minimal disruption, and create ongoing services around identity lifecycle and policy.
