What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| transactional/sales | Security service operators' billing/ERP systems; corporate procurement departments; public-sector contract award databases (TED… | per contract/per invoice line (billable hours by site); public awards per… | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | National/state security industry regulators (e.g. UK SIA, US state licensing boards, German IHK/Gewerbeamt registers), firearms authorities | per licensed individual or per company licence, with status and expiry | public |
| financial filings | Listed security groups (Securitas AB, Allied Universal debt filings, ADT, Brinks, Prosegur), national company registers | quarterly/annual per legal entity, with segment revenue | public |
| quality & compliance testing | Certification bodies and standards auditors (UL, VdS, NSI/SSAIB, ISO 18788 certifiers), regulators' inspection units… | per audited site/company per certification cycle | public |
| pricing | Operators' rate cards; public tender award documents; collective bargaining agreements setting guard wage floors; benchmarking consultancies | per contract hourly bill rate by service type and region | purchasable |
| reviews & sentiment | Glassdoor/Indeed (employer reviews of guarding firms), Google/Trustpilot reviews of alarm and investigation firms | per review with date and location | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | Guard-tour and patrol-tracking platforms, cash-in-transit fleet telematics providers, lone-worker safety app vendors | per GPS ping / per checkpoint scan per officer or vehicle | partnership |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices and labour ministries; large guarding operators (G4S/Allied Universal/Securitas) HR and scheduling systems… | official data as monthly/annual aggregates by region; operator data per guard… | partnership |
| incident/safety/claims | Guarding and alarm operators' incident-report systems (Trackforce, Silvertrac, TrackTik), alarm receiving centres, insurers, police forces… | per incident/per alarm event with timestamp and site | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Alarm and CCTV installers/service providers' field service management systems, armoured vehicle fleet maintenance records | per device/vehicle per service visit | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Alarm monitoring centres and remote video monitoring providers (ADT, Verisure, Securitas Technology), access-control and CCTV/analytics… | per sensor event / continuous stream per site | exclusive |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Operators' workforce management/scheduling systems, staffing subcontractors | per shift per post, filled vs. unfilled hours, daily | exclusive |
| customer demographics | Residential alarm/monitoring providers' CRM systems; credit bureaus supplying subscriber scoring | per subscriber household with address and tenure | exclusive |
| communications/marketing performance | Alarm and monitoring providers' consumer marketing teams, lead-generation networks and ad platforms | per campaign/per lead | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.