Why Every Business Needs a Commercial Security Audit

Every busi­ness should rou­tine­ly con­duct a com­mer­cial secu­ri­ty audit to stay abreast of risks that threat­en its oper­a­tions, assets and peo­ple. There are a num­ber of ben­e­fits and knowl­edge to be gleaned from con­duct­ing these secu­ri­ty audits, and busi­ness own­ers can get per­son­al­ized advice and secu­ri­ty rec­om­men­da­tions from our experts at PROTECTION PLUS.

A com­mer­cial secu­ri­ty audit is an in-per­son assess­ment of your busi­ness that iden­ti­fies crit­i­cal secu­ri­ty vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties, along with rec­om­mend­ed steps and solu­tions for elim­i­nat­ing those gaps. The audit is a nec­es­sary mea­sure for under­stand­ing your busi­ness’ secu­ri­ty pol­i­cy strengths, oppor­tu­ni­ties and weak­ness­es, with the help of knowl­edge­able secu­ri­ty pro­fes­sion­als.

Let’s look at the key rea­sons to con­sid­er a com­mer­cial secu­ri­ty audit and what you will gain from it.

1) Uncover Security Vulnerabilities

Do you know where your secu­ri­ty vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties lie? Are they the same risks that you and your team iden­ti­fied when you opened the busi­ness?

Chances are your vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties have grown or evolved. Or, if you’ve nev­er care­ful­ly eval­u­at­ed your secu­ri­ty gaps before, then it could be only a mat­ter of time before your busi­ness is tar­get­ed.

With a com­mer­cial secu­ri­ty audit, a trained PROTECTION PLUS Secu­ri­ty Expert will do an in-depth eval­u­a­tion of your unique secu­ri­ty require­ments based on the con­di­tions inside and out­side your busi­ness. We’ll look at poten­tial entry points for intrud­ers, areas where inter­nal theft could go unde­tect­ed, how quick­ly author­i­ties could respond to an emer­gency and numer­ous oth­er fac­tors.

2) Law Compliance

Are there any laws that require your busi­ness to imple­ment spe­cif­ic secu­ri­ty mea­sures? Have you gone over every let­ter of the law with a fine-tooth comb to be sure that you are in com­pli­ance with the rules?

Just as one exam­ple, Ontario laws require cannabis stores to imple­ment numer­ous secu­ri­ty pro­to­cols, such as video sur­veil­lance sys­tems, secure entry points and secure dis­plays. Fail­ure to adhere to these laws can result in steep fines or loss of the busi­ness’s license.

A com­mer­cial secu­ri­ty audit will allow you to con­firm if your busi­ness is com­pli­ant with applic­a­ble laws regard­ing secu­ri­ty, and it will iden­ti­fy the steps you must take to get back in com­pli­ance.

3) Define Security Policies

Con­duct­ing a com­mer­cial secu­ri­ty audit will enable you to assess whether your company’s secu­ri­ty poli­cies are ade­quate and whether or not they are suc­cess­ful in their imple­men­ta­tion.

Beyond any secu­ri­ty tech­nol­o­gy that you have installed, it is vital that busi­ness­es set clear pro­to­cols for secu­ri­ty and safe­ty, espe­cial­ly in envi­ron­ments with valu­able assets. These poli­cies could be as sim­ple as defin­ing how the alarm sys­tem should be set or cre­at­ing employ­ee check­lists for clos­ing the busi­ness at the end of the night.

By uncov­er­ing vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties, a com­mer­cial secu­ri­ty audit can help you set more robust poli­cies for pre­vent­ing theft, break-ins and oth­er threats.

4) Find the Appropriate Security Solutions

Final­ly, an audit will iden­ti­fy spe­cif­ic secu­ri­ty solu­tions to help you elim­i­nate the vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties uncov­ered dur­ing the assess­ment. For exam­ple, rec­om­men­da­tions could include par­ti­clu­ar types of video cam­eras, alarm sys­tems, locks, access con­trol sys­tems and oth­er solu­tions, based on your unique secu­ri­ty needs.

A PROTECTION PLUS Secu­ri­ty Expert will work with you to define the right solu­tions for your needs and bud­get.

Schedule a commercial security audit today

Find out which secu­ri­ty vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties pose a threat to your busi­ness. Con­tact PROTECTION PLUS to sched­ule a com­mer­cial secu­ri­ty audit.