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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | Public procurement portals (TED, national tender databases) publishing awarded guarding/event-security contracts; operators' rate cards… | Per contract award (value, duration, lot) and per hourly bill rate by guard… | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | National/regional security industry regulators and police licensing bodies (e.g. UK SIA, Belgian FPS Interior, German IHK registers, US… | Per licensed individual or per licensed firm, with licence type, validity dates… | public |
| financial filings | National business registers and stock exchanges for listed and large security groups (Securitas, Prosegur, G4S/Allied Universal entities)… | Per legal entity, annual or quarterly; revenue, margin, headcount, segment split | public |
| quality & compliance testing | Certification bodies and auditors (ISO 9001/18788, national guarding standards, ACS in UK), client-side contract audits, working-dog and… | Per audit/certificate per site or per entity; per dog-handler team certification | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Glassdoor, Indeed, Google Reviews, Trustpilot; recruitment platforms | Per review, per employer/branch, timestamped | purchasable |
| customer demographics | Security operators' CRM systems; market research firms (Freedonia, MarketsandMarkets, Omdia) profiling client sector mix | Per client account (sector, size, sites) internally; sector-share aggregates in… | purchasable |
| employment & workforce | Security service operators' HR/workforce-management systems, sector trade associations (CoESS, ASIS), national statistical offices and… | Per employee shift/roster line internally; monthly or annual headcount, wage… | partnership |
| incident/safety/claims | Security operators' incident reporting systems, client site logs, insurers and brokers underwriting guarding/cash-in-transit risk, police… | Per incident (time, site, type, response, injury/loss), rolled up per client… | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Operators' workforce scheduling platforms (e.g. Timegate, Winteam, Kronos deployments), staffing subcontractors | Per shift/post per site per day; contracted vs. filled hours, overtime, no-show… | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Security operators' billing/ERP systems; large corporate and public-sector clients' accounts payable | Per invoice line: hours delivered, service type, site, period | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | Operators and their technology vendors: lone-worker/man-down devices, body-worn cameras, RFID/NFC checkpoint readers, access-control… | Per device event/reading, timestamped per officer or per door/checkpoint | exclusive |
| geospatial/movement | Guard-tour and patrol-tracking vendors, fleet telematics providers, cash-in-transit and mobile patrol operators | Per GPS ping / per checkpoint scan, per patrol officer or vehicle… | exclusive |
| logistics & freight movement | Cash-in-transit and valuables-logistics operators, central banks and commercial banks contracting cash movements | Per consignment/run: route, stops, value bands, timestamps | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Operators' fleet and equipment management systems; armoured vehicle builders and service workshops | Per vehicle/asset per service event; odometer, armour and radio/body-cam… | 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.