Research Facility Security Program
Specialized security assessment for research facilities, focusing on intellectual property protection, laboratory security, and research data safeguarding.
In scope
- Intellectual property protection review
- Laboratory security assessment
- Research data handling evaluation
- Access control analysis
- Collaboration security review
You receive
- Research security architecture
- IP protection framework
- Data security strategy
- Physical security recommendations
- Collaboration security guidelines
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Core Research Security Assessment
$55K
One research site with up to 250 staff and up to 5 labs: IP protection review, laboratory physical security walk-through, research data handling evaluation and access control analysis. Delivers findings plus an IP protection framework.
- Sites
- 1
- employees
- 250
- 1 research site, up to 5 labs
- IP protection review
- Laboratory security walk-through
- Research data handling evaluation
- Access control analysis
- IP protection framework
- — Collaboration and external partner security review
- — Research security architecture design
- — Multiple sites
- — Implementation of controls
Advanced Research Security Program
$95K
Up to 3 sites and up to 1,000 staff: all five scope areas including collaboration security with external partners, every lab assessed rather than sampled, plus the research security architecture, data security strategy and collaboration guidelines.
- Sites
- 3
- employees
- 1000
- Up to 3 sites, all labs assessed
- Collaboration and partner security review
- Research security architecture
- Data security strategy
- Physical security recommendations
- Collaboration security guidelines
- — Custom protection tooling
- — Program implementation and rollout
- — More than 3 sites
Enterprise Research Security Solution
$150K
Full-scope research security with custom protection tools and complete program implementation
- — Software or hardware purchase costs
- — Physical security installation
- — Ongoing managed monitoring after the term
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a security 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
Systems, sites, stakeholders and the question the assessment must answer.
You see · Your objectives and constraints.
02Discovery & evidence
Documents, configurations and interviews, plus technical testing where the service includes it.
You see · Access and time with key people.
03Analysis
Findings rated by risk to your business, not by a generic score.
You see · A prioritized view of your risk.
04Report & debrief
Executive summary, findings and a remediation roadmap, walked through with your team.
You see · The report and the debrief.
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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