Real estate runs on email and moves money on deadlines, which is exactly the combination attackers look for. Property management adds a second problem: you are effectively running a small network at every building you manage, most of which were never designed.
Cloud Guardian provides managed IT services, multi-property network support, and cybersecurity to real estate brokerages, property management companies, and commercial landlords across New Jersey. Work includes business email compromise and wire fraud prevention on the closing and rent-collection path, multi-factor authentication and email authentication records, support for Yardi, AppFolio, Buildium, RealPage and MRI, common-area and leasing-office Wi-Fi, building system network separation, VoIP across multiple properties, and support for agents working from anywhere.
The specific exposures in brokerage and property management operations.
An attacker sits in a compromised mailbox, learns the closing date, then sends revised wire instructions from a lookalike address at exactly the right moment. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has consistently ranked business email compromise among the highest-loss cyber crime categories, and real estate transactions are a named target.
No SPF, no DKIM, no DMARC enforcement, so a spoofed message from your broker's name lands cleanly in a client inbox. This is a configuration gap that takes hours to close and stops an entire fraud category.
Leasing office, common areas, amenity Wi-Fi, cameras, access control, and building systems all installed by whoever was cheapest that year, with no documentation and default passwords. Each one is a way into your management systems.
Applications with Social Security numbers and bank statements sitting in mailboxes, on desktops, and in shared folders with no retention limit and no access control. New Jersey breach notification obligations apply to that data whether you catalogued it or not.
Controls, not adjectives. Each of these is something we configure, document, and can show you evidence of.
Legacy providers price like it is 2014 because their stack is from 2014. We run a modern, automated, AI-assisted operation, which costs us less to deliver and costs you less to buy. Same room, better outcome, roughly half the invoice.
| Typical legacy MSP | Cloud Guardian | |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring | Alerts nobody reads until you call them | AI triage that opens, correlates and often closes the ticket before you notice |
| Response | Tier 1 reading a script, escalation next business day | Senior engineer on the first touch, 24/7, no phone tree |
| Documentation | Lives in one technician's head | Written, versioned, and handed to you, you own it, not us |
| Tooling | The same RMM they bought in 2014 | Current EDR, current identity stack, current automation, reviewed quarterly |
| Billing | Per-seat minimums, 36-month lock-in, surprise project fees | No minimums, no long lock-in, scope and price in writing before work starts |
| AI | Not in the stack, and not in the roadmap | Used to cut ticket volume and audit every action, with logs you can read |
The services real estate and property clients use most. Everything else we offer is available too.
No control set is absolute, but this category is unusually preventable. Mailbox compromise prevention, email authentication, forwarding-rule alerting, and a mandatory phone verification step on any instruction change together eliminate the common attack path. We implement all four and train the staff who touch closings.
Yardi, AppFolio, Buildium, RealPage, MRI, Entrata, and the accounting systems around them. We manage identity, access, device security, and the network performance those platforms rely on.
Yes. Site surveys per property, centrally managed access points, separate guest and resident networks kept away from management systems and building controls, and one dashboard covering the whole portfolio.
That is the normal condition in brokerage. The answer is to secure the data rather than the device: cloud document access with per-user permissions, MFA everywhere, no local storage of transaction files, and immediate access revocation when an agent leaves. We build for that model instead of pretending you can lock down machines you do not own.
Yes. One phone system, extensions across every location, leasing office and after-hours routing, and voicemail delivered to email.
Book a free assessment. We audit your real estate and property environment, show you exactly what is exposed, and quote what it should actually cost.