A physical security risk assessment should leave you with three things. A clear understanding of your actual risk environment, not a generic description of security threats in general, but a specific, documented analysis of what threatens your organization and where you're most exposed. A prioritized set of recommendations that are proportional to that risk and tied to your operational and financial reality. And a baseline you can measure against over time.

Is your security program just a snapshot? Most cannabis operators believe their security program was evaluated and approved once, at licensing, and that's the end of the story. It isn't, and treating it that way is one of the most common and most expensive misunderstandings in the industry. Here's the part that catches operators off guard: the pre-opening inspection checks whether your facility matches what your application said you'd build. After that single checkpoint, almost no one ever...

Security program deficiencies are costing cannabis operators at the acquisition table. Learn what acquirers evaluate and what to fix before entering any process.