Alarm Resilience Assessment

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  • Virginia Commercial Property Owners 
  • Virginia Pharmacies 
  • Virginia Churches 
  • Virginia Schools 
  • Virginia Municipalities 

Alarm Resilience Demonstration Program

"We perform a structured, non-destructive Alarm Resilience Demonstration." A documented, repeatable process.

ASSUMED PROTECTION vs. DEMONSTRATED PROTECTION

Security Systems Inc. believes the strongest protection is protection that has been verified.


Many organizations assume their alarm systems will perform as expected because they are installed, monitored, and Arm and Disarm without issue.


Our design philosophy extends beyond compliance.



We seek to understand how systems behave during abnormal operating conditions, communication disruptions, power failures, component faults, and deliberate attack attempts.

Demonstration Checklist 

Communication bus fault behavior

  • Simulate a non-destructive bus fault (short/open) at a supervised keypad/device.
  • Verify and document:
  • Local annunciation behavior (audible/visual indicators).
  • Device supervision response and keypad messaging.
  • Signals sent to the central station (type, timing, and escalation).
  • Capture evidence: photos of setup, event logs, central-station history, timestamps.

Communications survivability and failover

  • Disable primary path (e.g., IP) and confirm automatic failover to secondary (e.g., cellular).
  • Verify supervision intervals, restoration messaging, and after-hours escalation.
  • Evidence: path-down and restore events with times; dispatch policy for verified alarms.

Standby power verification

  • Calculate reserve with current device load; target ≥24 hours for jewelers.
  • Conduct a timed, controlled power-down test or a battery-capacity test per manufacturer guidance.
  • Evidence: calculation worksheet, test start/stop times, voltage/charger logs.

Overvoltage/transient resilience (non-destructive validation)

  • Confirm surge/transient protection on field wiring, review model and installation locations.
  • If lab-grade transient injections are not available, document protective devices and their ratings.
  • Evidence: photos, part numbers, locations, grounding/bonding verification.

Wireless integrity and supervision

  • Confirm two-way supervision, encryption, and frequency hopping where applicable.
  • Verify supervision interval settings and after-hours loss-of-supervision behavior (signal types, escalation).
  • Evidence: device list with supervision settings; simulated device-loss event logs.

Perimeter and glass protection

  • Confirm graded shock/vibration on safes and cases; glass-break coverage at storefront glazing; cross-zoning to balance false alarm risk and detection.
  • Walk-test and document detection along likely approach paths to cases and safe.
  • Evidence: floor plan with sensor placement and test pass/fail marks.

Opening/closing governance

  • Verify scheduled opening verification, late-to-close alerts, duress code handling, and exception reporting thresholds.
  • Evidence: policy statement, sample exception logs, monthly summary.

Annunciation survivability

  • Confirm protected circuits, siren coverage, and behavior under circuit fault (what sounds, for how long, under which conditions).
  • Evidence: test logs, circuit protection photos, behavior notes.

Deliverables

  • Demonstration Findings Report 
  • Executive Summary 
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