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Take Command of Your Guarding Strategy

Power your guarding with data, not guesswork. Develop strategy with an expert-led guard optimization analysis, or drive action and maximize efficiency with a security management module tailored to you.

For Strategic Allocation

See how our Guard Optimization Analysis gives you the data you need to assign guards effectively and efficiently.

For Ongoing Management

Looking to manage your guarding program in one centralized hub? Learn more about our Security Management Module.

Built for You, Backed by CAP

    • Over $1 billion in guarding spend managed
    • Leveraging more than 37 years of crime risk forecasting experience
    • Designed by criminologists, data scientists, and security experts

Guard Optimization Analysis

Your Data-Driven, Expert-Guided Approach to Align Guarding With Risk

Misaligned resources lead to underprotection and overspending. Our expert Research & Innovation team provides the data—and the guidance—to help you make confident, informed decisions about guarding.

Guesswork Shouldn’t Guide Your Guarding

  • Map risk to deployment with site-specific evaluations comparing current guard spending to actual crime risk
  • Uncover inefficiencies and see exactly where you’re over- or under-guarded across your footprint
  • Get actionable data to help reallocate resources more efficiently and cost-effectively
  • Increase impact and decrease spend with the power of objective data and expert-led analysis

Turn Insights Into Action

  • Strengthen your case with defensible, objective, third party reporting for audits, budget meetings, or RFPs

  • Unify guard deployment across fragmented or decentralized programs and departments

  • Empower team members to champion smarter guarding strategies by grounding their asks in data, not gut feelings

  • Maximize ROI by reallocating guarding spend to where it matters most, without necessarily increasing budget

Security Management Module

Operationalize Strategy Across Your Entire Enterprise

All your security management needs in one place. This flexible, integrated solution from CAP Index includes powerful guarding tools—alongside a full suite of security management capabilities—so you always know where your resources are going, and why.

Choose your modules to fit your needs:

Track guarding spend and hours

Monitor guard allocation by region or zone

Track and display site incidents

Analyze deployment against crime risk

Review and submit guarding requests directly to vendors

Manage Security From Your Command Center

  • Gain real time insight into site-by-site guard allocation, staffing, compliance, and spend
  • Manage performance to coordinate contract timelines and costs, stay on top of site risks, and respond rapidly to incidents and changing trends
  • Unify your operations to implement, manage, and monitor your guarding strategy at scale
  • Streamline your workflows by submitting and approving assignments and collaborating with vendors in one centralized system

Which Solution Is Right For You?

Guard Optimization Analysis

    • Strategic one-time evaluation of your current guarding deployment best for baseline assessments, planning, and ongoing performance review
    • Features site-by-site risk, incident, and trend review
    • Created by CAP Index Ph.D. criminologists
    • Ideal for planning, budgeting, and justification for increasing or decreasing coverage
    • Includes comprehensive support and  guidance on how to leverage your result

Security Management Module

    • Interactive resource best for understanding crime risk and managing security across your locations
    • Features dashboards, real-time data, location risk information, site incident reports, asset management and registry, and many other key capabilities
    • Created by CAP Index Ph.D. criminologists
    • Built into CRIMECAST or your system
    • Ideal for day-to-day operations, management, and reporting
    • Includes full system access and user training

See It In Action

Wondering if your guarding strategy is working as effectively asit  could? Our experts explain what signs to look for to know if you need a guarding optimization analysis and how it can help improve efficiency and maximize your security budget.

Guarding Case Study

See how organizations have transformed their guarding strategy with a guarding optimization analysis. Our case study walks through their challenges, the insights gained, and the measurable improvements they realized.

Guarding in Action

See how a guarding optimization analysis makes a real difference. Our blog walks through actionable strategies that help organizations deploy guards more effectively, reduce costs, and strengthen security where it matters most.

Behind the Analysis

Meet the experts who develop our guarding optimization strategies and turn complex data into actionable security insights.

Guard Smarter

Get a free custom analysis and take the first step toward smarter, more efficient guarding.