Portfolio Cybersecurity in Burnaby, BC
Security for property companies as a portfolio: identity, email, endpoints, vendors and building systems, ranked by what would hurt the most.
Portfolio Cybersecurity for Burnaby properties
Burnaby is a dynamic commercial hub with a strong mix of tech, retail and industrial enterprise. PropertyIT delivers portfolio cybersecurity for property teams in Burnaby and across the Lower Mainland. Security for property companies as a portfolio: identity, email, endpoints, vendors and building systems, ranked by what would hurt the most. We treat each building as an operating environment with its own constraints: age, suite count, carrier access and tenant mix. Work is led remotely from Vancouver, with local technicians coordinated for installation and site visits.
Standards, documentation and ownership
Our platforms for portfolio cybersecurity, such as Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra ID, Fortinet, DNS filtering and Email security gateways, are chosen for supportability. You own the equipment, the accounts and the documentation. Administrative credentials are stored in a vault you control, and a printed one-page summary for each building is left in the telecom room or property office.
How the work runs day to day
After scoping, we schedule portfolio cybersecurity around your operations. In occupied buildings that means avoiding move-in days, quiet hours and month-end closing. Changes are made in planned windows with a written rollback, residents or tenants are notified where service may be interrupted and every change is logged. Your property team gets a daily summary during active installation.
Pricing for portfolio cybersecurity in Burnaby
Project work such as portfolio cybersecurity starts from $2,500 and rises with the number of buildings, suites and systems. Ongoing support runs $89 to $199 per user each month, vCIO retainers start from $1,500 per month and security assessments from $1,900. A 10% launch discount applies to new engagements, GST is added at 5% and there is no lock-in after onboarding.
What is included
A portfolio cybersecurity engagement in Burnaby begins with a survey of the building or portfolio, then a design, an installation or configuration phase and a documented handover. Typical outputs include multi-factor authentication and conditional access across the tenant, plus drawings, credentials held in a vault and a short runbook your own staff can follow. Exclusions are written into the scope so there are no surprises on invoice day.
Local conditions that affect the work
Buildings in the Lower Mainland contend with earthquake exposure along the Cascadia margin, atmospheric-river flooding in low-lying areas and the occasional wide-area carrier outage. Those conditions influence where equipment is installed, how it is powered and how quickly a failure can be repaired. Infrastructure is described by dense fibre, carrier-neutral data centres and a deep pool of local IT talent, but also heavy competition for it and constant office-lease churn. In Burnaby we factor both into the design of portfolio cybersecurity, choosing mounting locations, backup power and failover paths that match the real hazards.
What you get in Burnaby
- Multi-factor authentication and conditional access across the tenant
- Payment-change and wire-fraud controls with call-back procedure
- Endpoint detection on office and site laptops
- Vendor and contractor access register with expiry dates
- Separation between office, building and tenant networks
- Incident playbook covering rent, access control and emergency contacts
Faults this removes
- Payment-change requests approved over email without call-back
- Shared accounts at site offices and front desks
- Contractor and vendor access that was never removed
- Building systems reachable from the office network
Typical platforms
- Microsoft Defender
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Fortinet
- DNS filtering
- Email security gateways
See the full Portfolio Cybersecurity service page, or explore building IT in Burnaby.
Frequently asked questions
How do you measure success for portfolio cybersecurity?
Target: multi-factor authentication on every account, a vendor-access register reviewed quarterly and a rehearsed incident playbook. We report against these indicators and review them with your leadership each quarter.
What does portfolio cybersecurity include for a Burnaby property?
Typical deliverables include multi-factor authentication and conditional access across the tenant, along with drawings, a configuration backup and a handover session. The exact scope is written into a fixed-price proposal that lists outcomes, assumptions and exclusions.
Do you handle portfolio cybersecurity for Burnaby buildings remotely?
Mostly, yes. Design, configuration, monitoring and documentation are done remotely from Vancouver. Where physical work is required, we coordinate a local technician and keep you in contact with a single project lead.
Will the work disrupt tenants or residents?
We schedule around move-ins, quiet hours and month-end, and give your team draft notices for any planned interruption. Changes use written rollback plans, so a problem is reversed rather than debugged live.
Which platforms do you use for portfolio cybersecurity?
Common platforms include Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra ID, Fortinet, DNS filtering and Email security gateways. We prefer mainstream, supported equipment that another provider could take over, and we document every configuration so the system belongs to you.