Cannabis Industry Security Program
Comprehensive security assessment for cannabis operations, including cultivation facilities, retail operations, and supply chain compliance with state-specific regulations.
In scope
- Seed-to-sale tracking security
- Payment processing compliance
- Cultivation facility security
- Retail operation protection
- Supply chain validation
- State compliance verification
You receive
- Cannabis security architecture
- Compliance documentation
- Track-and-trace security
- Payment system security framework
- Physical security integration plan
- Employee security procedures
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Core Cannabis Security Assessment
$45K
Security and state-compliance assessment for a single-state operator: up to 2 licensed facilities, up to 50 employees and up to 5 vendors. Reviews seed-to-sale tracking, payment handling and physical security integration; delivers a gap report and roadmap.
- Sites
- 2
- employees
- 50
- vendors
- 5
- Seed-to-sale / track-and-trace system security review
- Payment processing review for up to 2 sites
- On-site physical security walkthrough of each facility
- State compliance gap report for 1 state
- Prioritized remediation roadmap
- — Writing policies and employee procedures
- — Hands-on control implementation
- — Operations licensed in more than 1 state
- — Penetration testing
Advanced Cannabis Security Program
$75K
Assessment plus build-out for operators with up to 5 licensed facilities, up to 250 employees and up to 15 vendors, in up to 2 states. Adds written compliance documentation, employee security procedures, supply chain validation and guided control implementation.
- Sites
- 5
- employees
- 250
- vendors
- 15
- Everything in the Core assessment, for up to 5 facilities
- Compliance documentation set for up to 2 states
- Employee security procedures
- Supply chain and vendor validation for up to 15 vendors
- Guided implementation of priority controls
- Security architecture document
- — Ongoing program management after hand-off
- — Recurring compliance monitoring
- — More than 2 state jurisdictions
Enterprise Cannabis Security Solution
$120K
Full-scope cannabis security with custom compliance tools, continuous monitoring, and complete program management
- Sites
- 15
- employees
- 1000
- vendors
- 40
- — Purchase or installation of cameras, access control or alarm hardware
- — Legal representation before state regulators
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a readiness & governance assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & framework selection
The standard or regulation, the systems and the business units in scope are fixed.
You see · Your audit or regulatory driver.
02Evidence collection & interviews
Policies, configurations and records reviewed; control owners interviewed.
You see · Documents and time with control owners.
03Gap analysis
Each requirement mapped to current state: met, partial or missing, with the evidence behind it.
You see · A clear gap register.
04Roadmap & evidence plan
Prioritized remediation with owners, and the evidence an auditor will ask for.
You see · A plan you can execute or hand to us.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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