Physical Security Assessment
Your security program does not stop at the network edge. Canary Trap assesses physical security controls, facility access, onsite procedures, and operational safeguards through a combination of physical threat risk assessment and, where scoped, controlled physical penetration testing.
What we test, review, and validate.
We assess how physical security controls, procedures, and onsite operations perform against realistic threats, with clear scope, operational constraints, stakeholder contacts, and approval before onsite activity begins.
Outcome of this engagement
A Physical Security Assessment helps your team understand where physical security controls, processes, people, and facility safeguards may create risk, and what should be improved to better protect people, operations, sensitive information, and restricted areas.
Threat risk assessment
- Risks to people, equipment, operations, and critical assets
- ASIS and CPTED-informed assessment approach
- Threat considerations such as theft, unauthorized entry, and insider risk
Site & control review
- Site grounds, entry points, access zones, and restricted areas
- CCTV, intrusion, duress, intercom, and related safeguards
- Security staffing, visitor processes, and incident history
Controlled access testing
- Open-source and onsite reconnaissance
- Approved attempts to bypass or manipulate physical safeguards
- Restricted-area and sensitive-information controls, where in scope
Physical security findings your team can act on.
A Physical Security Assessment is only useful if it gives your team clear evidence, operational context, and practical recommendations without creating unnecessary disruption onsite.
Canary Trap deliverables are written to support security, facilities, IT, operations, leadership, compliance, and risk decision-making.
Physical security should be tested against how access actually happens.
Most organizations have doors, badges, cameras, visitor procedures, restricted areas, and response expectations. The question is whether those safeguards work together when someone attempts to misuse, bypass, or pressure them.
A Physical Security Assessment gives your team a practical view of physical security posture, including what was reviewed, what was observed, what was tested, where gaps appeared, and which improvements should be prioritized.
A controlled process from scope to evidence.
Every Physical Security Assessment is scoped around approved facilities, objectives, techniques, rules of engagement, evidence handling, stakeholder contacts, and safety protocols.
We confirm objectives, in-scope facilities, approved activities, operational constraints, stakeholder contacts, third-party approvals, documentation requirements, and rules of engagement.
We review available security documentation, incident history, site context, relevant threat information, and operational procedures.
We conduct onsite assessment activities, which may include site inspection, entry-point review, access control zoning review, electronic security system observations, operational practice review, and stakeholder interviews.
Where physical penetration testing is in scope, we perform controlled attempts to gain unauthorized access by bypassing or manipulating approved physical safeguards and processes.
We document assessment methods, findings, threat considerations, likelihood and impact, supporting observations, and prioritized recommendations for improvement.
Physical testing led by people who understand restraint.
Physical security assessment requires judgment, restraint, and careful coordination.
Canary Trap brings experienced security professionals, controlled methodology, and practical reporting to help your team understand physical risk without unnecessary operational disruption.
Controlled execution
Testing is led by experienced offensive security professionals, not handed off to junior operators following a script.
Real-world perspective
Every engagement is scoped with stakeholder sign-off, approved techniques, safe-word protocol, authorization documents, and named escalation contacts.
Practical recommendations
Photo and video evidence is captured only with explicit authorization and handled according to agreed evidence and chain-of-custody requirements.
Recognized assessment principles
Findings include practical recommendations for security, facilities, IT, operations, and leadership teams.
Clear stakeholder coordination
Every engagement includes clear communication, defined expectations, stakeholder alignment, and controlled escalation paths.
Focused reporting
Where included, validation helps confirm that improved controls or processes are working, not just documented.
Trust signals
Canary Trap is SOC 2 Type II certified, maintains an NPS above 95, and specializes in offensive security testing.
Physical access often connects to broader security risk.
Physical security findings often connect to social engineering, wireless access, internal movement, and red team objectives. These are common pairings.
Physical security assessment questions, answered plainly.
A cybersecurity tabletop exercise is a facilitated, scenario-based discussion that helps teams practice incident response decisions before a real incident occurs.
Canary Trap designs and facilitates tabletop exercises that test decision-making, escalation, communication, roles, incident response plans, and cross-functional coordination.
An incident response plan review evaluates the plan and supporting documentation. A Tabletop Exercise tests how people use the plan under a realistic scenario.
Many organizations do both: review the plan first, then run a tabletop to validate whether the plan works in practice.
Participants typically include security, IT, legal, communications, HR, operations, privacy, compliance, executive leadership, and other stakeholders involved in incident decision-making.
The audience is tailored to the scenario and objective.
Yes. Executive tabletop exercises are common when the goal is to prepare leadership or the board for decisions around ransomware, business interruption, public communications, customer notification, regulatory obligations, or cyber insurance.
Common scenarios include ransomware, business email compromise, account takeover, data exposure, vendor compromise, cloud compromise, insider risk, application compromise, and operational disruption.
Scenarios are custom-developed to your industry, size, risk profile, and objectives.
Most facilitated tabletop sessions run two to four hours. Preparation and after-action reporting are completed before and after the live session.
Larger or more complex exercises may require additional workshops or multiple sessions.
Yes. Tabletop Exercises can be facilitated remotely, on site, or in a hybrid format.
Yes. Canary Trap develops custom scenarios, injects, decision points, and discussion prompts based on your business, environment, incident response maturity, and exercise objectives.
Tabletop exercises are commonly used to support SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI, cyber insurance, and customer assurance expectations related to incident response readiness.
Specific compliance obligations should be confirmed against your framework, auditor, insurer, or legal advisor.
Yes. A Tabletop Exercise can support cyber insurance conversations by demonstrating that your organization has practiced incident response decision-making, escalation, communication, and recovery planning.
Yes. A tabletop can be run before or after adversarial testing. Before testing, it helps align response roles and expectations. After testing, it can help leadership and response teams rehearse decisions based on realistic findings.
Scoping typically requires your objectives, participant groups, preferred scenario type, current incident response plan, business context, regulatory considerations, timing, and any specific decisions or workflows you want to test.
A scoping call is used to confirm the right approach before work begins.
Canary Trap provides an after-action report, reviews the findings with your team, and recommends improvements to plans, playbooks, escalation paths, communications, and response readiness.
Ready to scope a Physical Security Assessment?
A short scoping call is enough to align on facilities, scenarios, rules of engagement, authorization requirements, evidence handling, timing, and the right next step.
Working toward a red team scenario, facility assurance requirement, audit, or operational security improvement? Tell us what you need to prove and we’ll work backwards from it.
