Where Burnaby’s risk lives
Burnaby’s business community runs from the offices around Metrotown and Brentwood to the business parks at Glenlyon, Discovery Place and along Production Way, where technology, engineering, film and creative companies cluster alongside distributors and light industry. Many of these businesses do their most valuable work in the cloud: designs, code, client files, contracts and financial data.
For them, the most likely attack isn’t someone breaking through a firewall. It’s someone signing in with a stolen password, or a shared link that exposes far more than intended. Our cybersecurity services concentrate on that reality.
Securing cloud accounts
Most of our Burnaby security work starts with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. We review and tighten:
- Sign-ins: multi-factor authentication for everyone, stronger methods for admins, and rules that block sign-ins from unexpected countries or unmanaged devices where appropriate.
- Admin accounts: separate, protected accounts for administration, used only when needed.
- Sharing: sensible defaults for external sharing, link expiry, and visibility into what’s been shared outside the company.
- Email: filtering, impersonation protection, SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and alerts for suspicious forwarding rules.
- Backup: a separate backup of mail, OneDrive or Drive, SharePoint and Teams, because the cloud provider’s recycle bin is not a backup.
See our Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace services for how we manage these platforms day to day.
Contractors, partners and project teams
Tech, engineering and production companies often work with freelancers and partner firms. Access gets granted quickly when a project starts and rarely gets removed when it ends. We make contractor access structured: individual accounts or guest access with multi-factor authentication, permissions limited to the right project, expiry dates, and a clean removal process. You can see at any time who outside the company has access to what.
Protecting intellectual property
Designs, source code and client deliverables are often worth more than the hardware they sit on. We help protect them with device encryption, managed laptops that can be wiped if lost, data loss alerts for unusual downloads or sharing, and clear rules for where company files are allowed to live.
Devices and the office network
On the device side, every computer gets endpoint detection and response and automated patching, and we monitor the security tools we manage around the clock. In the office or the business park, we separate staff, guest, camera and equipment networks so a compromised device can’t reach everything.
Training that fits technical teams
Technical staff are not immune to phishing, especially well-crafted messages that impersonate cloud services, code repositories or invoicing platforms. Our training is short, realistic and respectful of people’s time, with learning courses staff can complete at their own pace.
Getting started
Book a free security review. We’ll check your cloud accounts, devices and sharing, explain the risks in plain English, and give you a prioritised plan. For everything else we do locally, see IT support in Burnaby.
