Security your tenants actually want to walk past

Corporate property has a problem most sites do not: the security presence is part of the guest experience. A lobby officer is the first person a client, a candidate or a board member meets. Post orders here have to cover access control and courtesy in the same breath, and the officer has to be selected and trained for both.

We build the program around the building — tenant mix, hours, loading dock traffic, after-hours access policy — then supervise to it. Uniform standard is matched to the setting, which in most corporate environments means business dress rather than tactical presentation.

What we deliver

Posts we staff

• Lobby & reception
• Front desk / concierge
• Access control & screening
• Mobile & roving patrol
• Overnight & weekend cover
• Alarm response
• Termination standby
• Vacant property protection
• Special event staffing
• Emergency surge coverage

What a corporate post actually covers

Post orders are written per building, and in multi-tenant properties per tenant where authority differs. We walk the property with your facilities or building manager and record what is true: which doors badge and which are propped, when cleaning and vendors are on site and who lets them in, where the camera coverage stops, which stairwells are used and which are forgotten, what the after-hours access process actually is, and who has authority to authorise an exception.

A typical deployment covers a lobby console post handling access control, visitor processing and issuance, and deliveries; turnstile and elevator-bank enforcement including tailgating challenge; loading dock and vendor verification during delivery windows; interior rounds covering stairwells, garages, mechanical spaces and vacant floors on varied timings; after-hours access authorisation against a documented list; alarm response and coordination; and support to your emergency procedures — floor wardens, evacuation, shelter-in-place — as a participant in your plan rather than an author of a competing one.

Console posts are only as good as the challenge culture behind them. We agree in writing, before the first shift, exactly what an officer is authorised to do when a person who is not on the list wants to come in and is annoyed about being asked. Without that, the officer defaults to avoiding a complaint, which is how access control quietly stops existing.

Fire watch, and the compliance work that is not optional

When a building’s fire alarm or sprinkler system is impaired — for maintenance, construction, or because something failed — the fire code requires a fire watch: dedicated personnel patrolling designated areas at set intervals, with a written log, until the system is restored. It is one of the few security functions where the requirement is explicit, the interval is prescribed, and the record is the deliverable. Getting it wrong risks occupancy, not just a citation.

We staff fire watch at short notice, patrol to the interval the authority having jurisdiction requires, log every round with time and location, and hand the log over at restoration. Construction and renovation phases inside occupied buildings get the same discipline: contractor access verification, after-hours site control, and material and tool security in a space where the normal access controls have been temporarily removed by the work itself.

Terminations, threats and the day you know is coming

A high-risk termination is the one security event you get to plan in advance, and most organisations plan it badly by planning it late. Done properly it starts days earlier: a threat assessment on what is actually known, coordination between HR, legal and security, badge and system deactivation timed to the meeting rather than to the end of the day, a discreet officer presence positioned to be available rather than displayed, a route and a vehicle, and a defined posture for the following weeks.

That last part is where most plans stop and where the risk actually lives. Our workplace violence programme work covers threat assessment and case management past the day itself, and where the risk follows an individual home or on the road it moves to executive protection under the same contract.

Where the investigations and cyber side comes in

The corporate incidents that cost the most are not caught on a camera. A departing employee taking a client list, an expense pattern that does not reconcile, a vendor relationship that is too comfortable, an account accessed from somewhere it should not be — those are investigative and forensic problems.

Because the licences sit under one roof, a suspicion can move to a documented internal investigation, to digital forensics on a laptop or account with chain of custody intact, or to financial investigation without a second procurement. Managed cyber monitoring and background and vendor screening run through the same agency, and security consulting covers the assessment and policy work that should precede all of it.

How a programme is priced

Corporate posts are quoted per post, per hour, driven by hours of day and week, shift length, armed or unarmed — most corporate environments are unarmed by design — and whether the post is standing, roving or on call. A single console post covering peak hours plus after-hours roving usually outperforms blanket coverage at the same spend.

Included rather than billed separately: property survey, post orders per building and tenant, challenge and escalation authority agreed in writing, supervision, incident reporting, uniform, licensing and insurance. Quoted separately: fire watch and construction coverage, termination and threat details, investigative and forensic work, and surge coverage.

Frequently asked questions

Programs are built, not assigned

Every sector carries its own risk profile, regulatory environment, and public-facing expectation. We build the post orders, training emphasis, reporting cadence, and escalation path around the environment — then supervise to it. Uniform standards are matched to the setting, from business dress to full tactical presentation.

Honeybadger is not currently licensed in every jurisdiction. Where a client requires coverage in a state we do not yet hold, we will pursue licensing for the engagement.

Background reading: The threat picture at corporate offices and campuses