The State of Physical Security Operations in 2026
2026 Benchmark: 81% of teams miss their own SLAs. See where you stand.
Your team processed hundreds of alarms today. Most of them were noise.
Watch for a live, no-fluff conversation about the false alarm problem: what it’s costing you, and what it actually takes to fix it.
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WHAT WE'RE COVERING
A practical framework for the root causes of false alarms, not just the symptoms
What a false alarm really is
Not all alarms are equal. We’ll separate environmental triggers, equipment noise, configuration errors, human-generated alarms, and nuisance alarms. Each has a different root cause and a different fix.
What it’s actually costing you
Time, money, and the real signals your team is missing. We’ll quantify the cost that never shows up on a dashboard, and why alarm fatigue makes it worse at scale.
How to start reducing it
A practical way to find where the noise comes from, diagnose the root cause, and prioritize the fixes that matter first. No new software required.
WHY THIS MATTERS NOW
The average security team processes 342 alarms a day. Roughly 1 in 3 is false: 100+ noise events before your operators find a real signal. At 1,000+ employees, it climbs to nearly 1 in 2.
93%feel confident
74-pt gap
19%always hit SLAs
93% of security leaders say they’re confident their program would detect a real threat. Only 19% always meet their own SLAs. The gap between confidence and performance is where real risk lives.
Source: 2026 State of Physical Security Operations Benchmark Report
WHO YOU’LL HEAR FROM
Your speakers
Ryan Schonfeld
Co-Founder & CEO, HiveWatch
Commissioned the study because the industry kept talking about itself without measuring what matters.
Angela Erwin
Manager, Security Operations Center, PwC US
Runs a SOC at enterprise scale. She brings the operator’s view: what false alarms actually do to a team, and what it takes to cut through the noise.
Ross Smiedendorf
Director, GSOC Delivery & Advisory, HiveWatch
Bringing hands-on operator experience from leading GSOC and travel security programs at ByteDance, Rivian, and Abercrombie & Fitch.
Bill Russell
Head of Platform Services Management within SAP Global Security and Risk Compliance
Has enterprise-scale perspective on data privacy risk, high-volume security operations, and what it really takes to bring AI into a legacy physical security stack.
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The alarm problem, talked about honestly
A conversation about a problem the industry has been ignoring: the false alarm problem, what it’s costing you, and what it actually takes to fix it.