Verkada physical security, designed and run by the Central Ohio people who already build and secure networks. When something breaks there is one number to call, and nobody to point at.
Free, no obligation. We analyze your cameras, alarms, access control and the network underneath them, then hand you the gaps in writing.
If any one of these gives you pause, that is exactly what the free analysis is for.
Names withheld at the clients' request. Both are Ohio DCC licensees. Both run Verkada on a network YourColo designed, installed and monitors.
Cameras, badge readers and alarm panels are computers on your network, so we run them that way: designed, monitored and documented alongside your servers and identities. Tight coupling prevents most problems outright, and turns the rest into a quick answer instead of a week of finger-pointing.
The same monitoring that watches your servers watches the switch ports, power and links your cameras depend on. Capacity, firmware and certificates get handled on a schedule, so recording keeps running instead of quietly stopping.
Staff get single sign-on and multi-factor login once, across IT and security alike. A new hire has the right doors and the right apps on day one; someone who leaves loses both the same afternoon.
Badge events, logins, network health and video line up on a single timeline, so “why did that door open?” or “why is this camera dark?” gets answered in minutes, with the evidence already packaged for the Division or your insurer.
Design, monitoring and repair sit with the same people, so there is no triage between the camera installer, the alarm company and the IT vendor. Issues route straight to whoever can fix them, inside the 24-hour window the rules allow.
Requirements below come from Ohio Administrative Code 1301:18 and the Division's surveillance access notice. Specifics vary by license type. Cultivator, processor, testing lab and dispensary rules each carry their own section.
| DCC requirement | Verkada platform | YourColo service |
|---|---|---|
| Continuous recording & retention24-hour live feed with motion recording, at least 15 fps, 45-day retention, date and time stampsOAC 1301:18-5-05 · -6-04 · -8-05 | Cloud-managed cameras with onboard storage and retention plans beyond 45 days; every clip time-stamped and searchable. | Right-sizes retention and coverage per license type, and verifies recording health so gaps never reach an inspector. |
| Required camera coverageEntries and exits, limited-access areas, storage, destruction and disposal, cash handling, every point of sale | Dome, fisheye, bullet and multisensor models to cover each zone the rule names. | Site survey and a coverage map tied line by line to the rule, updated with every floor-plan change. |
| Real-time Division accessBrowser-based over port 443 with a trusted certificate, with no plugins, VPN or RDPDCC notice · Feb 9 2024 | Verkada Command runs in Chrome or Edge over HTTPS, with no inbound ports open at your site. | Provisions the DCCsurveillance account with scoped, view-only rights and handles change notifications to the Division. |
| Alarms and duressCommercial-grade alarms on entries and windows, motion detection, silent duress alarm | Verkada Alarms: intrusion sensors, panic buttons and professional monitoring with video verification. | Designs zones and duress workflows, and coordinates dispatch contacts and responder procedures. |
| Limited-access areasTrained, authorized staff only, with daily records of who entered | Verkada Access Control: role-based schedules, badge or mobile credentials, event logs linked to video. | Builds role policies from your staffing plan and schedules the daily access reports for your records. |
| Failures, testing and inspectionAudible and visual failure alerts, notify the Division, repair within 24 hours, monthly tests, annual third-party inspection | Offline, tamper and device-health alerts by app, email and SMS. | 24x7x365 RMM watches every device, dispatches repairs inside the 24-hour window, runs documented monthly tests and preps the annual inspection. |
| The part the rules do not spell outHardening the system that holds your evidence | Encrypted in transit and at rest, automatic firmware updates, SSO and MFA, full audit trail of every view and export. | Segments security devices from POS and business systems, manages firewalls, identity, endpoints and email security, and reviews it from the SOC. |
YourColo builds and runs every layer a compliant cannabis site depends on, on platforms your team already knows. Physical security sits on top of a network we designed, behind identity we manage, watched by a SOC that never closes.
Also: network architecture and design, RMM, managed detection and response, email and endpoint security, and the documentation that makes an inspection uneventful.
Cannabis operators run lean IT teams under heavy regulation. YourColo takes the whole load: the network, the identities, the endpoints, the monitoring and the paperwork. The people on site run the facility.
Continuous monitoring, threat detection and response across endpoints, identity and network, with humans on duty at 3 a.m., when the alerts that matter usually land.
Patching, health checks and remote remediation for servers, workstations and the devices your security system depends on. Failures get found before an inspector or an outage finds them.
Segmented networks that keep cameras, access control, POS and back office apart, with firewalls, wireless and multi-site connectivity designed for facilities that cannot go dark.
Okta and Microsoft single sign-on, multi-factor login and least-privilege roles, with joiners, movers and leavers handled the same day, so a former employee's account never outlives their badge.
Citrix and Microsoft 365 desktops and applications delivered to whatever device your team uses, without exposing the systems behind them.
Email and collaboration security, endpoint protection, data loss prevention and backup. These are the controls that stand between a phishing message and your seed-to-sale records.
Verkada cameras, access control, alarms and sensors designed, installed and managed as part of the same stack: one console, one set of credentials, one support number.
Test logs, access reports, coverage maps and change records kept current, so a DCC inspection, an insurer's questionnaire or a customer audit is a file you hand over, not a fire drill.
Engagements run from co-managed, where we support an internal IT lead, to fully managed, where YourColo is the IT department. Talk through the fit.
A legacy recorder shows you what happened once somebody reports it. Verkada's AI works every camera continuously, and our SOC makes sure the alerts reach people who act on them. Screens below are real Verkada Command views, with faces blurred.
Type what you are looking for, such as hand truck being used, and get every match across every camera in seconds. No scrubbing through hours of footage to find one moment.
One click turns a search into a standing alert, and Command estimates how often it would fire before you save it.
person without a hairnet in the extraction room
boxes carried out the back door
door propped open
person near the waste area after hours
Pick one person. Verkada pulls every sighting from every camera into a single chronological timeline and traces the route on your floor plan. That is 58 clips in this example, with no manual review.
Package the result as one evidence file for the Division, your insurer or law enforcement. AI-powered incident summaries write the description of each clip saved to the report.
Feature availability depends on Verkada license and camera model. Ask us what your current hardware supports.
Run this the same week every month and keep the record. It covers the recurring obligations in the surveillance rules, plus the cyber check the rules imply but never name. Ticks are saved in your browser only.
Enter your work email and we will send a printable PDF of this checklist, a record of what you just checked, and the OAC citation behind every line. Keep it in your inspection binder. It is the monthly log the rules ask for.
We analyze your surveillance, alarm and access systems against every DCC requirement, examine the network they run on, and hand you the findings in writing. No charge, and no obligation to buy anything.