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Service 01 · Physical Security

Access control, surveillance, and perimeter — designed as one system.

Most facilities accumulate physical security piece by piece: a badge reader here, a camera there, a fence added after an incident. We design and evaluate it as a single layered system, engineered to the standards that govern your facility.

Why not your facilities team or a general contractor?

Internal staff and integrators profit from, or answer to, the systems they already run — their assessment doubles as a case for their own hardware. Virga sells no hardware and reports to no one but you, backed by federal-grade design experience most physical security reviews never touch.

What This Covers

Every layer between the perimeter and the asset.

Physical security is a system, not a shopping list. We assess and design each layer to work with the others, not around them.

01

Access Control & Credentialing

Who can get in, where, and when — enforced by policy as much as by hardware. Badge systems, visitor management, and the authorization logic behind them.

02

Surveillance & Monitoring

Camera coverage, video management systems, and intrusion detection evaluated for actual coverage and response time, not just camera count.

03

Perimeter & Site Design

Fencing, gates, vehicle barriers, standoff distance, and CPTED principles applied to the site itself — the layer most programs treat as an afterthought.

04

Facility Hardening

Doors, frames, glazing, and electrified locking hardware — the openings that determine whether the rest of the system actually holds.

05

Records & Audit Trails

Access logs and visitor records built to hold up to a 90-day evidence request, not just a glance during a walkthrough.

06

Key & Credential Control

The inventory, the master key, and the access devices nobody can currently account for — closed and documented.

The Virga Approach

Assessed against the standard that governs your facility, not a generic checklist.

A camera in the right place beats three in the wrong ones. We evaluate what's enforcing a decision versus what's simply installed, then document the gap in terms your authority having jurisdiction will accept.

Signature Capability

From the perimeter to the door — in real specifications.

We design physical security to construction-specification standard, producing coordinated documents across every CSI MasterFormat division that security touches — written to satisfy the DoD, DHS, and sector regulations your facility actually answers to. Your protection is engineered into the building from the site line inward — not improvised by an integrator after the walls are up.

Division 32

Perimeter & Site

  • Fencing, gates & access points
  • Vehicle barriers & crash-rated bollards
  • CPTED site & landscape design
  • Standoff & approach control
Division 28

Electronic Safety & Security

  • Access control & credentialing
  • Video surveillance (VMS / CCTV)
  • Intrusion detection & monitoring
  • Visitor management & integration
Division 08

Openings

  • Doors, frames & security glazing
  • Electrified locking hardware
  • Access-controlled openings
  • Door position & status monitoring
Coordinated across every dependent trade: Div 26 Electrical  ·  Div 27 Communications & Cabling  ·  Div 10 / 11 Specialties & Security Equipment
Governing Standards

Specified to the authority that governs your facility.

A MasterFormat division tells the trades what to install. The governing standard tells them how well it has to perform. We write to both — so the design survives the review, the inspection, and the audit that follows.

DoD & Military

  • UFC 4-010-01Minimum antiterrorism standards for buildings — standoff, glazing & progressive collapse
  • UFC 4-020-01Security engineering facilities planning & design-basis threat
  • ICD 705SCIF and SAPF construction, accreditation & acoustic protection
  • DoD 5200.08-RPhysical security program requirements

DHS & Federal Facilities

  • ISC Risk Management ProcessThe standard for federal facility security, end to end
  • ISC Facility Security LevelFSL determination & the countermeasures each level compels
  • CISA GuidanceCritical infrastructure protection & bombing-prevention practice
  • FIPS 201 / PIVFederal credentialing & interoperable access control

Sector & Regulatory

  • NERC CIP-014 & CIP-006Physical security for transmission assets & BES cyber systems
  • TSA Security DirectivesPipeline, surface & transportation requirements
  • NIST SP 800-53 / 800-171 & RMFPhysical control families & CUI safeguarding

Your environment may answer to one of these or several at once. We identify which apply before design begins, reconcile the conflicts between them, and document compliance in terms your authority having jurisdiction will accept.

From the fence line to the final door contact, one designer is accountable for the entire security envelope — coordinating with your architect, engineers, and integrators, and always on your side of the table.

Built On Federal-Grade Design Experience
  • $100M+ in capital construction initiatives directed — risk assessments, countermeasure planning, and project management for new and modernized secure facilities.
  • 45% lifecycle cost reduction across 550+ physical security assets, through standardized maintenance schedules and a disciplined replacement cycle.
  • CDSE Physical Security Certification and service as an ISC Design-Based Threat subcommittee chair, shaping the federal standards this page cites.
  • Currently directs technology and design strategy across access control, video surveillance, and detection-sensor hardware for a multi-billion-dollar, multi-region critical-infrastructure portfolio.

Know where your physical layer actually stands.

A focused, on-site assessment against the standards your facility answers to — with findings prioritized by risk and cost.