Protocol Intelligence

Physical Security

Access control, surveillance, alarm response, and the design of controlled space. Physical security is treated here as an information system that happens to have doors.

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What does a physical control know about the person in front of it, and where did that come from?
02
When an alarm reaches a monitoring provider, what context arrives with it?
03
How does a building designed for one threat model behave under a different one?

3 pieces

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InsightsPR-2601

The Convergence of Physical and Digital Security

The separation between physical and digital security is an artifact of how the industry organized itself, not of how risk actually behaves. A look at where the two meet and what it costs to keep treating them separately.

Feb 10, 20267 min read

GuidesPR-2603

Security Across Multiple Residences

Several properties, several installers, several standards, and no shared record. How to establish one baseline across residences that were never designed to be managed together.

Apr 01, 20268 min read

InsightsPR-2605

From Products to Systems: The Future of Integrated Security

Security is bought as products and fails as a system. On why integration is the discipline that determines outcomes, and what changes when it is designed rather than assumed.

Jun 03, 20268 min read

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The capabilities closest to physical security. Writing and practice inform each other, which is the reason Protocol publishes at all.

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