SCC Spectrum Security Almanacs
The standard of care for security practitioners
CPP-authored, with a new edition published as regulations change. Each almanac covers the security and emergency management requirements of a specific industry, with new industries added over time. Built for the practitioners who advise and run these operations.
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The Almanacs
An almanac for each industry. One standard of care. No subscription.
Spectrum for Hospitals
50 CPP-authored security standards and 50 state annexes. The regulatory reference for hospital security practitioners.
Spectrum for Food Supply Chain
Aligned to 21 CFR Part 121 Food Defense Rule. 44 CPP-authored standards plus a regulatory intelligence annex.
Spectrum for Commercial Warehousing
47 CPP-authored standards covering cargo integrity, insider threats, yard security, autonomous systems, and hazardous materials storage.
Frequently Asked Questions
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SCC Spectrum Security Almanacs is a CPP-authored reference that gathers everything a sector must answer to for physical security, the federal regulations, the accreditation standards, the recognized best practices, and the state rules, into one place and rebuilds it as the rules change. It gives a practitioner the standard and the working material they need to write complete, defensible policy for their own facility or client.
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Security directors at regulated facilities, consultants who serve multiple facilities, and the surveyors and administrators who hold those facilities to account. A director uses it to write and defend facility policy. A consultant uses it to standardize deliverables across clients. A surveyor or peer uses it as a reference for what good looks like.
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Spectrum is the standard, not the facility's policy. The practitioner writes the policy that meets the standard, tailored to their building, their staffing, and their state. Every standard includes sample language and an implementation checklist to make that fast, but the policy is theirs, customized and owned by the facility.
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A template is a fill-in document with no authority behind it, and leaning on an unverified one in a regulated environment adds exposure rather than removing it. Spectrum is a credentialed standard with the regulatory mapping, practical context, and implementation path behind every requirement, so the policy you write traces back to recognized criteria when a surveyor or an attorney asks where it came from.
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The practical context section explains what a standard means in practice rather than only on paper, the operational reality a director actually faces when implementing it. That analysis is the part you cannot find in the underlying regulations or in generic guidance, and it is a primary reason practitioners value the reference.
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Hospital, Food Supply Chain, and Commercial Warehousing launched in May 2026. Data Centers and K-12 Schools are scheduled before the end of 2026, and a new almanac is added every quarter.
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A bespoke consulting engagement is valuable and expensive, often well into five figures, and it produces a snapshot. Spectrum gives a facility the same class of CPP-authored, regulation-mapped material for a fixed price, so the facility can build and maintain its own defensible policy. Many consultants use Spectrum themselves to deliver that work faster.
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Those are containers, the platform that stores and routes policy. Spectrum is the content that goes inside the container. The standards are software agnostic, so a facility can import the policy it writes from Spectrum into whatever platform it already runs.
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It does not replace them, it operationalizes them. IAHSS guidance and the Joint Commission tell a hospital what good healthcare security looks like. Spectrum pulls those alongside CMS, OSHA, and the state rules and turns them into policy a facility can actually write, with sample language and a checklist, so one policy satisfies the accreditor, the federal rule, and the state at the same time.
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Nathan Makanoff, MBA, CPP, EMT, a security professional with 20 years across command centers, 911 dispatch, and hospital security, wrote the standards backward from the authoritative frameworks to the frontline. Every standard points back to the framework behind it, and the citations are verified against primary sources rather than asserted from memory, referencing the current published version of each regulation or accreditation requirement.
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A single edition is $2,499. For state-based verticals like Hospital, that includes the national core plus one state, with additional states at $499 each and region or national packages from $999 to $5,999. Advisory Access is a $4,999 add-on that gives one buyer a full year of direct guidance from the author across every Spectrum edition they own, including any they add during that year. It is not a subscription. Each edition is a one-time purchase, like a professional reference book, with no annual renewal obligation, and most facilities re-purchase only when the underlying rules see a major revision.
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Yes. Sample standards are available on request so you can see the structure and depth before committing to a full edition. Each edition has its own order form, all reachable from the individual product pages.
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