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BSIS licensed officers for colocation facilities, enterprise data halls and technology campuses, running access control and patrols that hold up in an audit.
A data center can have biometric readers on every door and cameras on every aisle and still fail an audit because of one person. The officer who waves a familiar contractor through the mantrap. The visitor badge that never gets returned. The patrol that was logged but never walked. Technology sets the standard. People decide whether it is met.
We Guard Now provides data center security in Los Angeles for colocation providers, enterprise data halls, edge sites and technology campuses. Our officers are BSIS licensed, briefed on your access policy and escalation path before their first shift, and trained to enforce the rules consistently, including on the people who have been coming in for years. Every entry, round and exception is logged in a format your compliance team can hand to an auditor.
Whether you need one data center security officer on a lobby desk or round the clock coverage across a campus, we can usually have officers on post within 24 hours.
Tell us about your property, and we’ll give you a written quote, usually the same day.
Our data center security services cover the human layer of your physical security programme. Most facilities in Los Angeles start with lobby and access control coverage, then add patrols and loading dock posts as they see how officers perform.
Officers verify identity against your access list, check government ID, issue and recover visitor badges, and escort anyone without unescorted rights. Nobody gets through because they look like they belong.
Officers monitor mantraps and turnstiles, stop tailgating and piggybacking, and log every attempt. Tailgating is the most common physical control failure auditors find, and it is almost always a people problem.
Scheduled and randomised patrols through data halls, corridors, electrical and mechanical rooms, with GPS verified checkpoints so each round is proven rather than claimed.
Supervision of deliveries, hardware arrivals and decommissioned equipment leaving the building, matched against work orders so nothing leaves without authorisation.
Fence line, gate, generator yard and fuel storage checks, with attention to vehicles parked nearby for no clear reason.
Officers work your security operations desk, monitoring cameras, door held and forced door alarms, and responding on site rather than simply logging an event.
Visitor logs, access exceptions, patrol records and incident reports kept in a consistent format your team can produce for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA or PCI DSS reviews.
We write post orders around your access policy, not a template. Tell us what your auditors ask for and we will build coverage that answers it.
A data center security officer protects uptime as much as property. The job is controlled, repetitive and exacting. Most shifts involve no drama at all, and that is exactly the point. The value is in doing the same checks correctly every time, for every person.
On a typical shift, one of our Los Angeles data center security officers will:
What a data center officer never does is make exceptions. A client executive without a badge waits like anyone else. That consistency is uncomfortable for about a week, and then it is the reason your audit goes smoothly.
This is the real decision most data center operators face, and the answer depends on scale, audit burden and how much of your team you want spending time on hiring and scheduling.
Comparison point | Contracted Security Officers | In House Security Team |
Best for | Colocation, enterprise and edge sites that want coverage without building a department | Large campuses with a dedicated security leadership function |
Staffing and cover | Provider handles hiring, scheduling, sick days and relief | Your team recruits, schedules and covers every absence |
Licensing | BSIS guard card and PPO held by the provider | You must meet California licensing rules for proprietary security |
Cost profile | One flat hourly rate, predictable | Salaries, benefits, overtime, training and turnover cost |
Flexibility | Scale up for migrations, audits or incidents at short notice | Slower to scale, fixed headcount |
Control | Written post orders set by you, enforced by us | Direct day to day management |
Choose contracted officers if you need reliable, licensed coverage at one or several sites, want predictable cost, or cannot justify building and managing a security department.
Choose an in house team if you run a very large campus, need security staff embedded deeply in operations, and already have security leadership to manage them.
Many operators run a hybrid: an in house security manager who owns the programme, with our officers staffing the posts. You keep control of policy while we handle the hiring, scheduling and cover. If your site is a cell tower, central office or unmanned network hut rather than a data hall, that is a different kind of coverage.
Internal link: “Running network sites rather than data halls? See our telecommunications facility security page.”
Multi tenant facilities where officers manage customer access, escorts and cage visits for dozens of companies, each with its own authorisation list.
Company owned data halls where officers enforce internal access policy and support audit evidence for leadership and regulators.
Smaller distributed sites where a single officer or patrol visits keep a lightly staffed facility secure.
High density buildings in the Downtown core around One Wilshire, where lobby control and escort discipline carry real weight.
Offices from Playa Vista and Santa Monica to El Segundo where valuable hardware, prototypes and people share the same floors.
Office buildings where a single secured room holds the entire business, and access to it needs controlling like a small data center.
Studios and post houses across Burbank, Hollywood and the Westside protecting render hardware and unreleased content.
GPU clusters and compute facilities holding extremely high value hardware in a small footprint.
Secondary facilities that sit quiet until they are needed, and need to be exactly as secure as the primary when that day comes.
Rooms holding patient or financial data where HIPAA or PCI DSS physical controls apply.
Airport security guard services in Los Angeles for cargo terminals, FBO hangars, ground-handling yards, and airside support offices around LAX, Van Nuys, and Hawthorne, badge-controlled areas where documentation discipline matters as much as presence.
We provide data center and technology facility security across Los Angeles County, including:
Data center coverage depends on officers who show up on time, every time, because an empty lobby desk is an open door. If you are comparing security companies in Los Angeles, ask where the officers assigned to your site actually live. Long commutes produce late arrivals and call outs, and a late arrival at a data center is a gap in your access record.
We staff from the surrounding area wherever possible, from the Downtown interconnection core to the El Segundo and Playa Vista technology corridor, so the officer on your post knows the area and can be relieved quickly when needed.
Do not see your neighborhood? We cover all of Los Angeles County. Call +1 714-760-5385 and ask.
We screen for people who can say no politely to a senior executive without a badge. That trait matters more at a data center than anywhere else.
Access logs, exceptions and patrol records kept consistently, so evidence requests take minutes rather than a week of searching.
We turn your access control policy into post orders officers actually follow, and update them when your policy changes.
Field supervisors run unannounced checks. If a procedure is being skipped, we find it before your auditor does.
Field supervisors run unannounced checks. If a procedure is being skipped, we find it before your auditor does.
Every officer holds a current BSIS guard card, verified before assignment. We operate under PPO # 121614 with general liability and workers compensation coverage.
We do not publish a single hourly figure, because a lobby desk at an edge site and a multi post colocation campus are very different assignments. What we can tell you plainly is what moves the rate.
Round the clock coverage needs three shifts plus relief, so it is priced as a full rotation. Longer, predictable schedules cost less per hour.
Almost all data center work is unarmed. Armed coverage adds a firearms permit, range qualification and higher insurance, typically 30 to 50 percent more.
Officers comfortable with access control systems, escort procedures and technical environments narrow the pool slightly.
A single lobby desk costs far less than lobby, dock and patrol posts together. Multi post sites price better per hour because supervision is shared.
Short term cover for a migration, audit or incident is available. Ongoing coverage is priced lower because it is easier to staff.
Sites supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA or PCI DSS need tighter documentation and training, which is reflected in the rate.
What we do commit to: one flat hourly rate quoted in writing before you sign, no fuel surcharges, no administrative add ons, and no rate change mid contract without your agreement. If another quote is dramatically lower, ask what the officers are paid. Low pay means turnover, and turnover at a data center means officers who do not know your access rules.
Call +1 714-760-5385 or request a quote online. We review your facility, access policy and compliance requirements, and identify which posts genuinely need staffing.
You receive post orders built from your access policy, shift schedules, officer counts and a flat hourly rate. No vague estimates.
Once you approve, we brief and assign your team and coverage begins, typically within 24 hours. Your field supervisor gives you their direct number.
No long term contract is required to start. Whether you need data center security guards in Los Angeles for a two week migration or permanent coverage, both are fine.
They control who enters the facility, verify identity against your access list, manage visitor badges and escorts, stop tailgating, patrol data halls and the perimeter, supervise deliveries and outgoing equipment, respond to alarms and keep audit ready logs of all of it.
Yes, on the physical side. Officers follow your written access procedures and keep visitor logs, exception records and patrol logs in a consistent format your compliance team can produce as evidence. We do not certify your facility, but we make the physical controls easier to prove.
We can, but almost all data center work is unarmed. Armed officers suit sites with a documented threat or specific client requirement. We will tell you honestly if armed coverage is not needed.
Officers are positioned to watch mantraps and turnstiles, challenge anyone following through without badging, and log each attempt. Consistent enforcement, including on familiar faces, is what actually fixes tailgating.
It depends on hours, number of posts, compliance requirements and officer profile. We quote one flat hourly rate in writing with no hidden fees. Call +1 714-760-5385 for a same day estimate.
Yes. Every officer holds a current BSIS guard card issued by the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, verified before assignment. We operate under PPO # 121614.
Yes. We provide short term officers for migrations, hardware moves, audits and construction phases, as well as ongoing coverage.
Yes. Cell sites, central offices and unmanned network huts are covered on our telecommunications facility security page, because they need a different mix of patrols and remote monitoring.
Tell us about your facility and what your auditors ask for. We will give you a straight answer on the coverage you need, what it costs and how fast we can start. Free assessment, no obligation.