A solid emergency preparedness plan can help protect a business’s investment, providing the resources needed to survive and recover from events such as natural disasters, fires, weather-related catastrophes, power outages, or data loss. As part of our physical security consulting services, Harvard security professionals work with clients to develop a comprehensive strategy to lessen the impact of disasters or catastrophic events and to allow a business to survive.

Successful preparedness requires detailed planning, periodic stakeholder training, and mutual cooperation among internal and external crisis management coordinators. It also requires robust public and private sector partnerships. The Harvard team is experienced in mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery planning as the foundation for a successful emergency preparedness strategy.

Access control and credentialing systems are crucial elements of an enterprise protection model. An abundance of technologies and products are available that can ensure that an environment is secure and that access to facilities and sites are controlled, monitored, and managed according to unique business requirements.

Our executive protection company assists clients in selecting and deploying the appropriate levels of access control and credentialing, and matching available technologies with desired levels of enterprise security. Selective restriction of access to a physical location or other resources may include identity authentication to facilitate entering; using smartcard photo identification and login credentials; or access control systems such as mantraps, locks, keys, and physical key management.

In today’s environment, it is all too routine that threatening letters and parcels are mailed to corporate and government offices. Thankfully, most of these items are inconvenient and nuisance mailings, however, some are not. A small percentage of such deliveries can cause damage, and may even be filled with deadly biological toxins that can cause serious bodily harm or death.

In order for Harvard to offer full-scale enterprise protection services to our clients, we have developed a strategic alliance with the SoBran, Inc. team to provide comprehensive mail, parcel, and package screening and operational support for organizations and corporations. Harvard will work with our clients to identify the most cost-effective, scalable solution to address this vulnerability and provide seamless business continuity operations.