Physical security assessment has a methodology problem.
IPSRM™ was built to solve it.
A structured operational methodology for independent consultants, in-house security leaders, and governance professionals who need physical security assessment to produce outputs that boards can act on.
Most physical security assessments fail not in the field but in what happens to the findings afterwards. IPSRM™ addresses that through three governed stages — each building on the last, and together producing assessment output that boards can actually use.
COLLECT - CALIBRATE - COMMUNICATE
COLLECT
Systematic gathering of evidence across six interdependent assessment domains — from strategic threat context through to systemic resilience. Every observation domain-attributed and grounded in evidence, not assumption.
CALIBRATE
Structured assessment of findings against the site-specific threat environment and asset profile. Residual risk scoring on a 1–25 scale, tier-based prioritisation, and documented calibration reasoning for every material finding.
COMMUNICATE
Executive-grade reporting designed to answer the questions boards actually ask. What is our exposure? What are the priorities?What is the residual risk if we do not act?
Governance is asking more of Physical Security Assessment
Boards and audit committees increasingly require physical security assessment to produce structured, evidenced outputs that support formal governance declarations. In the UK, Provision 29 of the Corporate Governance Code 2024 requires boards to declare on material controls effectiveness — physical security qualifies for a significant number of listed organisations. Equivalent governance pressures apply across jurisdictions. IPSRM™ produces the assessment output those declarations require.
Physical security professionals have the knowledge and experience to produce board-level assessment but lack the necessary infrastructure.
What the discipline has lacked is the methodological infrastructure to translate that expertise into structured, evidenced, repeatable outputs that governance-facing stakeholders can act on. The result is assessment work that is professionally capable but structurally inconsistent — and increasingly inadequate for the governance demands now placed on it. IPSRM™ provides the infrastructure.
Not ready to purchase yet? Receive a sample extract from the Practitioner Guide — including the Six-Domain Architecture and residual risk scoring structure.