Compliance Series, Part 3: Lorica CaaS and What Comes Next

In our first two Compliance Series articles, we looked at why compliance failures in private security often go far beyond paperwork, and how Lorica Marketplace is designed to solve them. Compliance issues don’t just create fines or license problems; they create lawsuits, insurance disputes, and reputational damage that can end contracts overnight. Lorica Marketplace addresses these risks by embedding verification and oversight into every external engagement.

This final article looks ahead to the next stage: Lorica Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS). While Lorica Marketplace will focus on compliant contracting and hiring, Lorica CaaS will give security firms a way to manage compliance across their own workforce, and eventually across their vendor networks.

From External Engagements to Internal Readiness

Lorica Marketplace will handle external work such as 1099 contracting and W2 hiring. Lorica CaaS will apply the same foundation to internal operations, using verified profiles and centralized data to manage licenses, training, insurance, and policy compliance in one place.

Marketplace solves the problem of who you hire. CaaS will solve whether your people, and your vendors, remain compliant once they are on the team. The goal is a single, trusted infrastructure for both sides of the equation: contracting on one end, workforce management on the other.

How Lorica Compliance-as-a-Service Will Work

Profiles for every professional. Each employee will have a Lorica profile containing their licenses, training history, and certifications. Managers will see real-time status updates and receive alerts when renewals are due. The profile replaces the manual spreadsheet with an auditable, continuously updated record.

Compliance dashboards. Supervisors will have a clear overview of who is cleared for duty, which credentials are expiring, and where coverage gaps may exist. This turns compliance from a reactive process into an active part of daily operations.

Guardrails built into workflows. Assignments will automatically check for valid credentials or insurance coverage before approval. Managers will get simple alerts rather than discovering issues after a contract is underway.

Client-ready “baseball cards.” With one click, managers will be able to share a short, professional snapshot of a team member’s verified credentials with clients or contract originators. These summaries help firms demonstrate compliance and professionalism without exposing unnecessary personal information.

Seamless integration with Marketplace. When an internal need becomes an external search, Lorica CaaS will connect directly to Marketplace. A manager who needs an additional W2 hire or 1099 contractor will be able to initiate that process using the same standards and data already in the system.

The intent is simple: compliance should be automatic, visible, and built into everyday decisions, not a separate administrative task.

Looking Ahead: Vendor Compliance Without the Blind Spots

Prime contractors often struggle to maintain visibility once work flows down to subcontractors. Those subcontractors may have strong internal controls, but the prime usually cannot see them.

Lorica aims to extend its compliance infrastructure across these networks. When subcontractors also operate on Lorica, prime contractors will be able to verify the compliance status of vendors and, when appropriate, their assigned personnel. Visibility will be limited to what the prime needs to know, and based on standardized, permissioned data rather than documents passed over email.

This future capability will allow primes to manage compliance risk across multiple layers of subcontracting without adding new layers of paperwork.

Why This Matters

Private security firms operate in a high-risk environment where a single compliance failure can undo years of credibility. A lapsed license or expired insurance policy can expose clients and contractors alike to lawsuits and lost business. The traditional fix – more spreadsheets, more forms, more manual checks – no longer scales.

Lorica’s vision is to build the compliance infrastructure that makes those failures less likely. Marketplace will make external contracting and hiring compliant by default. Lorica CaaS will give companies real-time control over their internal workforce. Over time, the same infrastructure will extend to vendors and subcontractors, giving the industry a unified system for compliance management.

Private security will always depend on trust, but trust is strongest when it is verified. Lorica is building the tools to make that verification simple, reliable, and universal.

Security professionals can apply to join Lorica’s waitlist or obtain a referral link from a Lorica Ambassador who is already on the waitlist. Security companies do not need a referral to join.