# Harvard Protection Services New York, New York. A New York guard firm with more than ten thousand officers across forty-eight states that buys second-generation family guarding companies, and folds them into its own book. - Website: https://www.harvardprotect.com ## The Firm Harvard Protection Services launched in 1996, works from 59 Maiden Lane in New York, and reports more than ten thousand employees operating in 48 states and the District of Columbia. It sells enterprise protection and corporate security services, which in practice means officers under contract at customer sites. Its published acquisition is the archetype of the trade's supply: Motivated Security Services, a second-generation privately held security services organization founded in 1969, acquired effective November 2023 and announced that January. Family firms of that vintage are the population a searcher is bidding for, and they are also what the strategics buy. It publishes sparingly. One acquisition sits in its news category and its resources page holds three items, none of them deals, so the record here is thin by the firm's own choice rather than by a wall. That is worth remembering when a trade looks quiet: quiet buyers and absent buyers look identical from outside. Read again in September 2026: every post since the purchase is a safety article, the last of them in August 2025, and the site has said nothing for thirteen months. The whole site opened that evening holds one purchase ever, effective November 3, 2023 by its own body under a January post, which is the day the row carries now, and the newsroom has posted nothing since August 2025. ## In Its Trades - Security Guard: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-security-guard-business The other confirmed bidders: Sunstates Security (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/sunstates-security), Allied Universal (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/allied-universal). ## Confirmed Deals Deals traced to announcements, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record. - Motivated Security Services (2023-11-03): A second-generation privately held security services organization founded in 1969. Source: https://www.harvardprotect.com/2024/01/07/motivated-security-services/ Also on this site: https://searchspheresource.com/buyers Source: https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/harvard-protection Last checked: 2023-11-03 Site index for machines: https://searchspheresource.com/llms.txt