AccessPoint vs. Secure Redact

The short answer

Secure Redact is Pimloc's self-serve SaaS for automatically blurring faces, heads, licence plates and screens in CCTV and body-worn video, with transcript-based audio redaction, a chain-of-custody record on every file, and published credit pricing — one credit for a minute of video — with separate UK/EU and US processing options. For a UK council, school, NHS trust or transport operator that needs to answer subject-access and FOI requests for CCTV and is happy with a specialist SaaS, it is a strong, transparent choice. AccessPoint's difference is that it is the access-request platform, not a redaction service: the recording is processed in your own tenant, every mark carries the statutory exemption it relies on, and the burned release, its hash manifest and the time-based redaction log stay in the same request file as the documents — priced flat by organization size rather than per minute.

What is Secure Redact (Pimloc Limited)?

Secure Redact is the redaction platform built by Pimloc Limited, a London company based at Somerset House. Pimloc describes Secure Redact as an AI-powered redaction, audit and discovery platform for video, audio, images and documents, aimed at DSARs, FOI requests and wider sharing of footage from CCTV, body-worn, dash and drone cameras. It automatically blurs faces, heads, licence plates and other personal data, blurs screens, displays and mobile data terminals, and detects sensitive information in documents; the vendor claims over 99 per cent of personal data is identified automatically.

On the audio side, Secure Redact generates editable, downloadable transcripts, uses named-entity recognition to pick out names, locations and dates for redaction, lets a reviewer create audio ranges manually, and can translate audio into English. It is offered as self-serve SaaS with published plans, through open APIs, inside partner video-management and evidence platforms such as Milestone XProtect and Eagle Eye Networks, and as a private or customer-cloud deployment for enterprise customers. Pimloc lists SOC 2 Type 2 and Cyber Essentials Plus, and offers separate data-processing jurisdictions for UK/Europe and the US.

It is a redaction tool with unusually honest pricing — and that is the comparison point. Secure Redact starts from the footage and charges by the minute; the request, its statutory deadline, the exemption catalogue and the paper records live somewhere else. AccessPoint starts from the request and treats the recording as one document on it, so the mark, the exemption and the withholding log are in the same place as everything else the office releases.

Secure Redact fact sheet

Product: Secure Redact — automated redaction, audit and discovery platform for video, audio, images and documents
Vendor: Pimloc Limited, Somerset House, London
Form factor: Self-serve SaaS, open APIs, integrations inside partner VMS/DEMS platforms, and private or customer-cloud deployment for enterprise
Processing location: Pimloc's SaaS infrastructure with a choice of UK/Europe or US processing jurisdiction; private or customer-cloud options for enterprise. SOC 2 Type 2 and Cyber Essentials Plus listed
Pricing model: Published credit plans: 1 credit = 1 minute of video, 5 minutes of audio, 30 images or 10 documents. Basic 10 credits from $65 / £49 per month on annual billing, Pro 20 credits from $119 / £89, Advanced 30 credits from $159 / £119; Enterprise from 60 credits per month on a 12-month contract; 10 free credits on sign-up
Notable integrations: Milestone XProtect and Eagle Eye Networks direct integrations; partner listings include Rhombus, NICE, Network Optix and Cisco Meraki. Integration with FOI request platforms is not described in its published documentation

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Secure Redact and AccessPoint, side by side

	Secure Redact	AccessPoint
Where the footage is processed	Uploaded to Pimloc's SaaS, with a choice of UK/Europe or US processing jurisdiction; a private or customer-cloud deployment is offered to enterprise customers	Inside your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant. Face detection runs on your App Service with no outside call; on-screen text detection and transcription use Azure AI Document Intelligence and Azure AI Speech deployed in your tenant. The original recording is never modified
Detection: faces, plates, on-screen text	Automatic blurring of faces, heads, licence plates, screens, displays and mobile data terminals; vendor claims over 99% of personal data identified. Detection of printed text on screen (names, numbers) is described for documents rather than video frames	In-tenant face detection with stabilised tracking (one proposed tracked mark per person) and on-screen text via frame OCR against your detection patterns — a licence plate, a name badge, a case number on a monitor — each proposal carrying a rule citation. No dedicated plate, head or body detector; anything else is drawn once and tracked automatically in both directions
Audio: mute, bleep, voice distortion	Automatic redaction of names, addresses, dates and other personal data in audio via named-entity recognition, plus manually created audio ranges. Whether a span is muted, bleeped or pitch-shifted in the output is not described in its published documentation	Mute, bleep and voice distortion (pitch-shifted so every word stays audible) can be combined on one recording, each span with its own exemption — the severance Ontario's IPC has ordered in place of removal
Transcript-anchored marks	Automatically generated transcripts that are editable and downloadable, used to pick the words to redact; audio can also be translated into English	Time-coded, speaker-labelled transcript; Find & redact, detection rules and the AI pass propose Mute marks over the spoken span for you to accept or dismiss. Needs Azure AI Speech deployed in your tenant
Link to the request and the exemption cited	Not described in its published documentation — Secure Redact is positioned as the redaction step for DSARs and FOI requests managed elsewhere	Every mark — region, audio span or whole-record withhold — carries the exemption from the jurisdiction pack, alternates, comments, flags and approval like a page redaction, the in-frame caption can show it, and the request's redaction log lists each span with its effect and exemption
Audit log and release record	A full audit trail and chain of custody on every file, covering processing, redacting, storing and sharing	Hash-chained, append-only audit ledger in the request file; each release carries a MANIFEST.sha256 of every entry, a Redaction Index and a "How this release was prepared" statement that counts manual, rule-proposed, model-proposed and propagated marks
Formats and the burned release	Accepts mp4, mov, avi, webm, wmv, mpeg, 3gp and mkv; 4K support on the Advanced plan; anonymized video can be shared with third parties. The output format and whether sharing links expire are not described in its published documentation	Uploads up to 2 GB by default in resumable blocks; the release renders MP4 / MP3 with marks burned in and a record-label caption, packaged in the same ZIP as the PDFs. Per-audience release variants are stored as exclusions, so a new mark applies to every cut by default
Integration with request platforms	Direct integrations with video-management and evidence platforms (Milestone XProtect, Eagle Eye Networks) and an API for custom workflows; no FOI or DSAR request platform integration is described	AccessPoint is the request platform: recordings are documents on the request, added from the Documents tab or Teams meeting recordings, and the release decision feeds the Contents page, the redaction log and the statistics
Pricing model	Published per-minute credit plans from $65 / £49 a month on annual billing, with top-up credits; enterprise contracts from 60 credits a month	Flat annual subscription by organization size, published on the site and billed through the Microsoft commercial marketplace — no per-user, per-seat or per-minute fees, and video and audio redaction is included

Competitor capabilities vary by product edition and configuration; this table reflects each product's public positioning as of 2026-09-04.

Where Secure Redact fits

A fair comparison cuts both ways — Secure Redact is a reasonable choice when:

You are a UK or EU public body — a council, school, NHS trust or transport operator — answering DSARs and FOI requests for CCTV, and a UK-hosted specialist SaaS with SOC 2 and Cyber Essentials Plus satisfies your data-protection officer.
Your volume is small and irregular, so paying by the minute of footage on a monthly plan is cheaper than a platform subscription.
Your footage sits in Milestone XProtect or Eagle Eye Networks and you want to send clips to redaction from inside the video-management system.
You need live-stream anonymization or analytics over anonymized video, which Secure Redact offers and AccessPoint does not.

Where AccessPoint differs as a Secure Redact alternative

Your tenant, not a redaction SaaS Detection, transcription, review and the burned release run inside your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant, in whichever region your tenant already lives. The original recording is never modified and nothing is uploaded to a third party.

The exemption rides on the mark Each region, audio span or whole-record withhold carries the statutory section it relies on from the jurisdiction pack, with alternates and an approval, and the caption burned into the frame can show it. The redaction log lists every span with its effect and exemption beside the page-level entries.

Part of the request, not a step beside it The recording is one document on the access request. Its release decision feeds the Contents page and the statistics, the fees panel estimates media review hours, and the ZIP that goes to the requester holds the burned MP4 or MP3 next to the PDFs with one hash manifest.

Flat by organization size, not by the minute Video and audio redaction is part of the platform. Pricing is flat by organization size and published on the site, with no per-minute credits to top up. AccessPoint is listed on the Microsoft commercial marketplace, reviewed and tested by Microsoft.

Migrating from Secure Redact to AccessPoint

There is no case history to move out of a redaction tool. Releases you have already made through Secure Redact stay where they are, with their chain-of-custody records; the practical test is to run the next request with footage through AccessPoint beside it and compare what comes out.

Keep prior releases and their Secure Redact audit trails where they are — nothing needs to be re-imported for the record to stand.
Deploy Azure AI Speech and the media processor in your tenant (both are deployment parameters), then take the next DSAR or FOI request with CCTV or body-worn footage and work it in AccessPoint in parallel.
Run face and on-screen text detection and a transcript-based Find & redact, then accept or dismiss the proposals with the exemption on each mark.
Compare the two releases side by side: the burned file, the hash manifest, the redaction log's per-span effect and exemption, and the reviewer hours against the media review estimate.
Let the Secure Redact plan lapse at the end of its month or contract once the office is satisfied — unused credits are the only thing at stake.

If the footage arrives from a video-management system, export the clip as you do today and drop it on the request's Documents tab; files over 100 MB upload in resumable blocks.

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Questions people ask about Secure Redact and AccessPoint

What is Secure Redact?

Secure Redact is a redaction platform built by Pimloc Limited in London. It automatically blurs faces, heads, licence plates and screens in CCTV, body-worn, dash-cam and drone footage, generates transcripts and redacts names, addresses and dates in audio, redacts documents and images, and keeps a chain-of-custody record on every file. It is sold as self-serve SaaS with published credit pricing, through APIs and partner video-management platforms, and as a private-cloud deployment for enterprise customers, with a choice of UK/Europe or US processing.

Is there a Secure Redact alternative that runs in our own Microsoft 365 tenant?

Yes. AccessPoint redacts video and audio inside your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant, as part of the access-request platform: the face detector runs on your App Service without calling an outside service, on-screen text detection and transcription use Azure services deployed in your tenant, and the original recording is never modified. There are no per-minute credits — video and audio redaction is included in a flat subscription by organization size.

How does AccessPoint's detection compare with Secure Redact's?

Secure Redact automatically blurs faces, heads, licence plates and screens and claims over 99 per cent of personal data identified. AccessPoint detects faces in-tenant and proposes one tracked mark per person, and reads on-screen text with frame OCR so a licence plate, a name badge or a case number on a monitor becomes a proposal carrying a rule citation. It does not ship a dedicated head, body or licence-plate detector — a subject seen from behind is drawn once and tracked automatically — and every proposal waits for a reviewer to accept or dismiss it, so nothing is applied silently.

Secure Redact publishes its prices. How does AccessPoint's pricing compare?

Both publish. Secure Redact charges by credit — one credit is a minute of video or five minutes of audio — on monthly plans from $65 / £49 on annual billing, with top-ups and enterprise contracts from 60 credits a month. AccessPoint is a flat annual subscription by organization size, published on the site and billed through the Microsoft commercial marketplace, with no per-user, per-seat or per-minute fees; video and audio redaction is part of the platform rather than metered.

Does AccessPoint cover UK data-protection and FOI requests the way Secure Redact does?

AccessPoint ships jurisdiction packs for the UK FOI Act, the Environmental Information Regulations and UK GDPR subject-access requests alongside Canadian, US, EU and other regimes — each preloading deadlines, exemption catalogues, business-day calendars and letter templates. A video mark cites the same exemption catalogue as a page redaction, so the section relied on for blurring a bystander in CCTV is recorded in the redaction log exactly as it would be for a paragraph in a document.

Competitor information on this page is drawn from public sources — vendor websites, government reports, and press coverage — and was last reviewed in 2026-09-04. Products evolve, and a comparison is never the whole story: capabilities vary by edition and configuration. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we'll correct it.