Physical security for technology companies
You need a program you can defend, and it has to scale with every office you open. Holtium puts a dollar figure on your physical security risk and prioritizes what to do next, so a lean team can answer for the program as the company grows.
If you are a professional services firm, this page fits you too. The same office, people, and client data pressures apply.
The stakes
is what intellectual property theft is estimated to cost the US economy each year. For a technology company, that is the product itself.
Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property.
of data center operators said their most recent major outage cost more than $100,000, and one in five put the cost above $1 million.
Uptime Institute, Annual Outage Analysis 2026.
workplace homicides in the US in 2024. Duty of care follows your people into every office and onto every trip.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 2024.
You are scaling fast, and physical security is now someone's job without being anyone's function
You are opening offices and adding headcount quickly. Physical security usually sits with IT, facilities, or a lean workplace team, alongside everything else they own. It worked when there was one office. It does not scale to many.
Then the questions start. Enterprise buyers send security questionnaires that ask how you protect your offices, your people, and your intellectual property. Your board and your investors ask whether the program keeps pace with the company. You need a defensible answer, and you need it without standing up a large security function first.
Corporate offices
every new lease adds people and access to protect.
Data centers and server rooms
uptime depends on who can reach the hardware.
Labs and R&D space
the prototype is worth more than the room it sits in.
Events and executive contexts
offsites, launches, and leaders with public profiles.
Distributed workforce
your duty of care travels with your people.
Business risk through a physical security lens
The IP Commission estimates intellectual property theft costs the US economy between $225B and $600B a year, and for a technology company the IP is the company.
Code, prototypes, roadmaps, and the people who carry them are reachable through office access, not just through the network. The loss shows up as competitive advantage that never appears on an incident report, which is exactly why it goes unmanaged.
In Uptime Institute's 2026 outage analysis, 57 percent of operators said their most recent major outage cost more than $100,000, and one in five put it above $1 million.
A meaningful share of major outages trace back to human error, most of it people failing to follow procedure. That makes who can reach the hardware, and under what process, a physical security question. Whether you run your own halls or lease colocation space, an outage lands as productivity loss for you and every customer on the platform.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded 470 workplace homicides in 2024, and an office business is not exempt: open floors, public leaders, and a workforce spread across cities and home offices all carry exposure.
Each incident carries a safety response cost, and duty of care you cannot evidence compounds into legal exposure when something happens to someone on your payroll, wherever they are working.
Every new office opens on decisions made under a deadline: a badge system chosen by the local office manager, a guard contract inherited from the landlord, visitor rules that differ by city.
Within a few years no one can say which offices meet the bar and which are exposed, and the spending behind it has never been compared across sites. The cost is duplicated controls at some offices, real gaps at others, and a scramble every time a buyer or auditor asks how the program works.
The platform your team runs the program on, sized for a company that is still lean
Holtium brings your risks, controls, locations, and spending into one place, helps your team decide what to do next, and measures it all in dollars so leadership can act on it. A Holtium team works alongside yours, so a small internal team gets a full risk picture without building it.
Your risk register covers the risks a technology company actually carries: your people across a distributed workforce, your offices and any data center or lab space, and your intellectual property. Build it in the platform, or bring in the one you already have.
Control mapping connects every control you already run, badge systems, guard contracts, cameras, visitor management, and executive protection arrangements, to the risks it reduces and the offices it covers, so you can see which locations are protected and which are exposed as you grow.
The roadmap turns decisions into tasks with owners, budgets, and tracking, and the What-If simulator shows the effect of a decision before you commit a dollar to it, such as adding coverage at a new office versus closing a gap at the data center, so the program has a plan you can show a buyer, a board, or an investor.
A number you can put in front of a buyer, a board, and an investor
We start with your baseline, the risk you would face with nothing but doors, walls, and locks, then subtract what your current controls already prevent. What remains is your exposure today, split into the losses behind it, such as competitive advantage if intellectual property walks out, productivity if an office or data center goes down, and the cost of keeping a distributed workforce safe.
It is built on recognized standards and loss data, the same quantitative discipline used in cyber, operational risk, and engineering. It begins as a range rather than a false-precise figure and sharpens as we verify your controls, and every figure traces back to what drove it, so you can stand behind it with a skeptical enterprise buyer or a board that expects rigor.
Each quarter, leadership gets an executive risk report that reads like finance, not a security tool: where exposure stands, what moved it, and what comes next.
Inherent, losses avoided, and residual risk exposure, split into loss types. Technology company sample data.
Built for a team that does not have a team
You share what you already track, in any format: lease files, badge system exports, guard contracts, partner provider assessments. We map it to your risks and offices for you, and most teams are up and running within weeks. Your job is to review and confirm, not to do the heavy lifting.
That is the point for a company at your stage: you get a program you can defend without hiring a security department to produce it.
Questions technology teams ask
How do you put a dollar figure on physical security risk for a growing company?
We model each risk at each office, data center, and lab using recognized standards and loss data, the same quantitative discipline used in cyber, operational risk, and engineering. The figure starts as a range, sharpens as your controls are verified, and always traces back to what drove it, so your team can defend it in front of a CFO or a board.
An enterprise customer sent us a security questionnaire that asks about physical security. Can Holtium help us answer it?
Yes. The register, the control mapping, and the roadmap are the evidence those questionnaires ask for: which controls exist at which offices, what condition they are in, what is planned next, and which risks leadership formally accepted and why. Teams answer with documentation instead of scrambling to reconstruct the program the week a deal depends on it.
We are a startup without a single security hire. Is this too early?
No, and this is the cheapest moment to get it right. The Snapshot gives you a first quantified picture of your physical security exposure without a program behind it, and the platform grows with the footprint, so the office you open next year starts covered instead of inherited as a gap. What you avoid is the rebuild at 500 people.
We lease space in colocation data centers rather than running our own. Does that exposure still count?
Yes. Your provider's controls cover part of the risk, and the mapping shows which part, so what remains with you, such as who on your side can reach the hardware and under what process, is visible instead of assumed away. If an outage would cost your customers money, the exposure is yours no matter whose building it is.
What does a corporate physical security program include?
In Holtium, the program is a risk register for your offices, data centers, and people, your controls mapped to the risks they reduce, a roadmap with owners and dates, and a quarterly report in dollars that leadership can act on. That structure answers security questionnaires and board questions without a dedicated team building it by hand.
See what your exposure is worth as you scale
You stay in charge of the program. We do the analysis, so you get the evidence without building it.
