SECURITY STANDARDS

We help organizations develop robust standards for the lifecycle management of security technology. Reducing cost, Increasing efficiency, and avoiding litigation.

Electronic Security System (ESS) Policy and Directives:Leadership endorsements and departmental directives for maintaining and enforcing your organization’s deployment and management of security technology, presented textually and in a responsibilities matrix.

Security Project Workflow: A comprehensive guide to project workflows from planning through project acceptance, expressed by project size and type. Along with roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders.

Service, Support, and Maintenance: Detailed performance criteria for service, support, and preventative maintenance.

Audit & Inspection Criteria: Detailed performance criteria for audit and inspection to ensure systems are performing to designed intent and specifications.

Managed Services: Well written Standards are complex documents that require ongoing departmental collaboration, updates from technology and operational changes and a host of other variables that can require the Standards to need revisions. Standards Managed Services provides 12 months of updates and revisions to the developed Standards.

Video Management Systems: Technical equipment criteria, camera and VMS recording and retention parameters, manufacturer preferences, coverage locations, and ancillary systems criteria, and 23 other critical points.

Access Control Systems: Technical equipment criteria, card and reader technology specifications, system architecture, database criteria, cardholder authorization matrix, manufacturer preferences, and 14 other critical points.

Intrusion Detection Systems: Technical equipment criteria, performance criteria, monitoring requirements, manufacturer preferences, and 8 other critical points.

Communications Systems: Technical equipment criteria, performance criteria, manufacturer preferences, and 11 other critical points, may include intercoms, emergency call systems, PA systems, and mass notification systems.

Network Infrastructure: IT Department expressed criteria, performance criteria, network architecture and bandwidth requirements, manufacturer recommended network configuration and security protocols, and 16 other critical points.

Event-to-Action: Event-To-Action expresses the detailed automated actions that a system is programmed to execute once an event (trigger) is received. This supplemental document to the Standards ensures that a consistent outcome is maintained for each system trigger, or event received.

Lockdown Performance Criteria: This performance criteria is a supplemental document to the Standards. It details the system response, performance requirements, and integrations to other systems that are activated in a lockdown.

Vendor Qualifications: Criteria for vendor qualifications and selection to design, install, and maintain your security technology, and 7 other critical points.

Procurement: Criteria for procurement, document control, bid leveling, de-scope meetings, evaluation and award, and 4 other critical points.

Security Plan, Design, and Installation Management: Standards for Project Management during the planning, design and installation phases of work including contract management, document control and meeting coordination.

Project Closeout: Criteria for project closeout, acceptance testing, project transition and 5 other critical points.

Training Standards: Criteria for training of basic users, super users, administrators, advanced performance-based training, and 6 other critical points.

Zoning Visualizations: Zoning visualizations provide floor plans of your facility color coded to represent the zoning methodology expressed in the Standards. This allows for the rapid identification of areas at your facility so that technologies can be applied to the respective zones.

Gap Analysis: Using the completed Standards as a measuring tool, Sentinel will assess facilities to determine the level of compliance to the Standards. With the discovered information a Gap Analysis report is provided with required remediations and rough order of magnitude budget.

As-Built Documentation: Legacy, inherited, and design-build systems are often under-documented lacking drawings that express how the systems were built, connected, and interfaced with other systems. Sentinel’s as-built documentation service provides full drawings of security systems so service and maintenance can be streamlined.