Capabilities
Physical Security
Security planning and integration across facilities, properties, perimeters, access systems, monitoring, and operations.
Capability overview
What this covers.
Physical security is usually purchased as equipment. It works as a system: perimeter, approach, access, detection, response, and the procedures that connect them.
Protocol designs and coordinates that system, then holds the vendors who install and monitor it to a defined standard.
Problems addressed
The conditions this work exists for.
01
Equipment is specified before the environment is understood.
02
Perimeter, access, and detection are procured separately.
03
Monitoring and response are not designed together.
04
Access is granted physically and revoked administratively, if at all.
05
Systems degrade quietly between service visits.
Environment first, then architecture, then equipment. Vendors are selected against a specification rather than a specification being written around a vendor.
Core service areas
What the work contains.
- 01Site and property assessment
- 02Perimeter and approach design
- 03Access control architecture
- 04Detection, surveillance, and monitoring design
- 05Response planning and procedure
- 06Vendor specification and oversight
- 07Service, inspection, and lifecycle management
Relevant audiences
Who this is delivered to.
The same capability is scoped differently for each environment below. What changes is the exposure being addressed, not the discipline.
How the work is held
Assessment establishes the current state, architecture defines the target, integration brings systems and providers onto it, and management keeps it there as the environment changes.
Relevant products
The systems supporting it.
Each product below is in development. The capability is delivered by people and process today, not by software.
Protocol engages physical security against a described environment rather than a template.
Illustrative project types
Shapes an engagement takes.
Constructed illustrations of typical scopes. No client engagement is described anywhere on this site.
- 01Estate perimeter and access design
- 02Multi-site physical security baseline and remediation plan
- 03Access control architecture for a distributed organization
- 04Monitoring and response design across several providers
Related intelligence
Related analysis.
Discuss physical security.
Most engagements begin with a defined-scope assessment: what is being protected, what is in place, and where responsibility actually sits.