Acre Security has announced a new integration linking its Intrusion Controller family with its Access Control, creating a streamlined system that unifies access and intrusion management under one identity platform.
This development is aimed at reducing the duplication of user and access credential management, simplifying cross-system administration, and is currently available in EMEA and APAC regions.
Addressing operational needs
The Acre Intrusion Controller (AIC) has become a trusted platform across Europe, while the Acre Access Control (AAC) gains traction in North America as organisations upgrade their security frameworks. This integration arrives at a crucial time as critical infrastructure operators are being encouraged to tighten their insider-threat programs and enhance offboarding processes.
Organisations like the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the U.S. have recommended viewing insider threats as part of a cross-departmental program involving HR, IT, and security departments. The combined AIC–AAC framework is designed to better handle these challenges by ensuring synchronisation between systems.
Unified platform advantages
The cloud-based integration reduces false positives and improves threat responseTraditionally, access control and intrusion detection have evolved separately, often leading to operational challenges during critical situations such as employee exits and access modifications where timing and traceability are critical.
The new integration leverages cloud architecture to overcome protocol barriers, allowing for a shared data layer and intelligence residing in a single location, which aids in reducing false positives and coordinating responses to threats effectively.
Comprehensive security solutions
In response to an increasingly complex threat landscape, Acre Security CEO Kumar Sokka emphasised the importance of operational clarity, stating, "We are not claiming to be first to ‘unify’ security tools. The difference is what we mean by unification: identity, policy, and audit that hold up during offboarding and incident response. This release is a step in our One Acre journey."
This marks the integration’s significance in providing a cohesive framework for access and intrusion detection on a governed platform.
Responding to sector demands
The data centre sector, in particular, faces significant security demands, driven by increasing AI infrastructure development. According to IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average cost of a physical security breach in the US is around $10.22 million, underscoring the need for integrated security systems.
Acre's approach allows for unified governance, with a single cardholder profile handling both access permissions and intrusion arming rights, offering quick responses and preventing delays associated with syncing multiple systems.
Simplifying security management
The platform consolidates all security-related information on a single dashboard, displaying alerts and event histories together for more straightforward assessment and faster verification procedures.
Acre’s cloud-native architecture, utilising its proprietary FlexC bi-directional encrypted communication protocol, eliminates the need for on-premises translation servers and additional integration appliances, reducing potential points of failure. This integrated system presents a streamlined and secure solution for modern data centres and enterprises alike.
Acre Security, a global pioneer in physical security solutions, announced the general availability of its integration between its Acre Intrusion controller family (EVO, Gen1, AIC-1200) and Acre Access Control (AAC).
The integration connects access and intrusion into one governed workflow, reducing duplicated user and access credential management and cross-system administration.
Acre Intrusion Controller (AIC)
Acre Intrusion Controller (AIC) is a proven platform across Europe, while AAC continues to gain momentum in North America as organisations modernise their security environments.
The announcement comes as critical infrastructure operators are being urged to tighten insider-threat programs and improve offboarding. CISA and other U.S. bodies have continued to publish guidance that frames insider threat as a cross-functional operational program, not a single-team policy, with HR, IT, and security working from shared processes. In practice, that means offboarding cannot depend on two separate systems staying in sync.
Acre’s AIC–AAC integration is built for that reality, helping prevent a common problem – two separate systems drifting out of sync and leaving old permissions behind after someone changes roles or leaves.
Evolving independently
Access control and intrusion detection evolved independently, as they solve different problems: access control is permissive (managing who can enter and when). Intrusion detection is detective (monitoring for unauthorised presence and triggering alarms). Access control is standardised around Wiegand and OSDP protocols for reader-to-controller communication.
Intrusion systems used proprietary panel protocols and industry standard reporting protocols for central station monitoring. The vendor ecosystems were equally siloed, with different trade associations, installer certifications, and sales channels.
Different buyers
Inside enterprises, these systems are often reported to different buyers. Facilities management might own the burglar alarm because it is tied into building management. The security director or IT owned access control because it touched employee credentials and identity systems.
That split creates operational gaps during moments that matter most, especially employee exits and access changes, where timing, traceability, and clean revocation are critical.
Eliminating the barrier
Cloud architecture eliminated the protocol barrier. When both systems run on the same cloud infrastructure, they can share a common data layer regardless of the protocols the field hardware uses. The translation happens at the edge; the intelligence lives in one place.
Current threat landscape requires a coordinated response, as security operations centers receive high volumes of alerts daily, many of which are false positives. Correlating events across systems helps stretched teams separate signal from noise.
Unifying access and intrusion detection
"Organisations today face an increasingly complex threat landscape while managing more systems and more data than ever before," said Kumar Sokka, CEO of Acre Security. “We are not claiming to be first to ‘unify’ security tools. The difference is what we mean by unification: identity, policy, and audit that hold up during offboarding and incident response. This release is a step in our One Acre journey to give security teams operational clarity by unifying access and intrusion detection on a single, governed platform."
Security demands
The integration arrives as data center operators face unprecedented security demands due to the race to build AI infrastructure at a historic scale.
These facilities have become high-value targets. IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that the US average cost of a physical security breach was $10.22 million. As data centers house the compute power behind AI training and inference, operators require security architectures that treat access control and intrusion detection as a unified system.
Acre's different approach
Other vendors often deliver “unification” by integrating separate products through partnerships and connectors. Acre’s approach is different because both the access control and intrusion systems are Acre platforms. That allows unification at the governance layer: one person profile, consistent permissions, and a single record of changes across both systems, instead of two databases trying to stay in sync.
This means a single cardholder profile governs both access permissions and intrusion arming rights. When HR terminates an employee, one action revokes both door access and alarm codes, without sync delays or orphaned credentials in a secondary system.
Exception days, holiday calendars, and scheduling rules apply across both systems from a single configuration.
Displaying information in a single dashboard
The platform presents security‑related information in a single dashboard with a unified alarm and event history. For example, an intrusion alert and a door‑forced‑open alert are displayed within the same application for faster event and alarm verification, rather than appearing in separate applications that require manual correlation.
Cloud-native architecture with Acre’s proprietary FlexC bi-directional encrypted communication protocol means no on-premises translation servers, no integration appliances, no additional points of failure between systems.
The AIC-AAC integration is available now in EMEA and APAC.
