Four ways to work together.

You're about to make a seven- or eight-figure commitment based on a recommendation from the company that profits from it. I sit on your side of the table.

• Independent review of current footprint, platform, and vendor agreements
• Requirements definition and RFP development
• Integrator selection, bid analysis, and commercial negotiation support
• Deployment oversight and acceptance testing
• Total cost of ownership modeling, including the years after the install

Engagement

Fixed-scope project, typically 4–12 weeks.

A system that works on handover day is a different thing from a system that still works in year three. The hard part is everything after: a camera offline in a store nobody visits, firmware across tens of thousands of endpoints, a subcontractor doing sloppy work in a market where you have no staff. I have run that estate at 11,000 sites across a dozen countries.

• Remote monitoring and system health architecture
• Service level definition and integrator performance management
• Firmware, lifecycle, and refresh planning across the estate
• Escalation and after-hours support models for markets without local staff
• Managed service contract review and renegotiation

Engagement

Fixed-scope project, or folded into a fractional CSO retainer.

Not every organization can — or should — dedicate a full-time executive to physical security. But "nobody owns it" is a position you have to defend after an incident, not before.

• Ownership of the physical security program and its governance
• Security standards for new sites, remodels, and acquisitions
• Vendor and integrator management, including contract renegotiation
• Incident response and threat case oversight
• Board and executive reporting
• A named, accountable executive attached to the program

Engagement

Monthly retainer, typically 3–5 days per month. Six-month minimum.

After an incident, the question is not what happened. It is whether you took documented, reasonable steps against a foreseeable risk — and who put their name to that judgment.

• Multi-site risk assessment using consistent, documented methodology
• CPTED evaluation and physical hardening recommendations
• Workplace violence prevention program development, including SB 553 and multi-state exposure
• Prioritized remediation roadmap with cost estimates
• Documentation built to withstand legal and regulatory scrutiny

Engagement

Fixed fee, scoped by site count.