Steve Keller & Associates, Inc. is the leading security consulting firm in the U.S. specializing in projects involving museums, libraries, cultural and historic properties, select universities, and facilities involving high value collections. We also work extensively with architects in designing complex state of the art protection systems and preparing bid documents for projects involving cultural properties. And, we have done extensive work for very high end private collectors, gated upscale communities where a large number of residents have major collections, and corporate art collections. Check out our services for architects at our Architects’ Support Site.

Our clients have included the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Gallery of Art, Harvard University, Yale University, the Statue of Liberty, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, LAMOCA, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Norton Simon Museum, the New deYoung Museum of Art, Orlando Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Heard Museum, Phoenix, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and 500 other cultural  institutions and select private clients. Some of the world's leading private art collectors are our clients as well as numerous national, state and local governments. We have provided security for such treasures as the Magna Carta, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Dunlop’s broadside of the Declaration of Independence.

In 2004, we merged with Contemporary Services Corporation to form Cultural Property Protection Group (CPPG). Our subsidiary, Horizon Institute, Inc., became a “brand” of CPPG and continues to provide training materials, including videos, and conducts training seminars for a variety of markets. Horizon Institute continues to function out of the Ormond Beach office. Cultural Property Protection Group is located in Northridge, (LA) California. Except for our presence on the web, in industry directories, and an annual appearance at a museum security trade show, we rarely advertise. The majority of our clients are from referrals and repeat business. Some of the world’s most famous architects have used, and continue to use, our services.

The parent company of Steve Keller & Associates, Horizon Institute, and Cultural Property Protection Group is Contemporary Services Corporation (CSC). CSC is a $100 million per year company best known for serving the sports and entertainment industries and has provided security for 29 consecutive Super Bowls, annually provides security for all of the BCS bowl games, about 40 college and university sports programs, the PGA Tour, NASCAR, the Final Four, and many professional sporting events in baseball, basketball, and hockey. They have provided security for several recent Olympic Games. CSC also provides security for a great deal of the entertainment industry including traveling concerts by leading performers and scores of major entertainment venues. Through APEX Group, a sister company, we offer armed and unarmed security escorts and most recently the APEX contingent of retired law enforcement agents have been certified by CPPG to provide armed art escort couriers on domestic shipments.  Steve Keller & Associates, Inc. is the consulting and engineering division of CPPG.

We invite you to tour our site and help yourself to any of the resources you find here. If you are in need of a security consultant  to assist with a project or conduct a survey, or security system engineer to design your security system or serve on your architectural design team, we would very much like to be on the short list of those you consider. Architects should visit our Architect Support Page to download all of the information that you typically need for a short list presentation. Members of the Press seeking information and comment for articles or information on how to schedule an interview on deadline should go to our Press Support Page.

Be sure to visit our Breaking News Blog, bookmark it, and return often, or subscribe to its RSS news feed for automatic notification when it is updated. This valuable service is now available to all cultural institutions and museum professionals and functions similar to a news blog. 

New Feature!  Go to our Breaking News Blog for a real time alert assessment of the potential for cyber incidents such as virus and malware or hacking attacks against your systems such as your access control system. You will also find a real time Homeland Security Threat Level assessment updated minute by minute.