● Building security assessments — condo, HOA & apartment
The building anyone can walk into.
A condo building has the access-control problem of an office and none of the staff. Calibre assesses how a stranger actually gets in — deliveries, lobby, garage, fobs, short-term lets — and hands the board one prioritized document it can act on.
Starts with a twenty-minute scoping call. No obligation, no sales pressure.
Physical security onlyNot a service line bolted onto a cyber practice. Buildings, people and credentials are the entire remit.
Vendor-neutralNo product resale, no installer partnerships, no referral fees. The findings are the only deliverable.
Controls, never residentsWe assess what the building does, not who lives in it or who visits. No resident monitoring, in the assessment or in the rules we help you write.
Led by a practitioner, not a sales team. Calibre is directed by a security professional holding an MS in Cybersecurity from NYU, with enterprise security audit experience at Goldman Sachs and applied engineering work across access control, credential systems and social engineering.
01 / Premise
Every resident is a door held open for someone.
Fig. 01Controlled lobby entry — one credential, two people through
A propped service door, a fob that was never deactivated, a lockbox on the side gate, a delivery driver with the door code. None of it appears in a minute book, and the board only hears about it after something is gone.
Physical security is our entire practice — not a service line bolted onto a cyber firm, and not a guard company selling you more guards.
A break-inpolice report
Someone who was let inno trace
What changes with us
The lobby door locks itselfWe hold it and time how long it really stays open
Fobs are deactivated on move-outWe ask the association to produce the list
Cameras cover the package roomWe check whether the footage is usable when police ask
The CC&Rs prohibit short-term rentalsWe look for the lockbox on the side gate
02 / The assessment
One building. One walk. One document the board can act on.
A single fixed-scope engagement, delivered the same way every time. Six areas, assessed on foot — in daylight and after dark, because most of what fails only fails when nobody is at the desk.
01
Entry & perimeter
Doors that latch, gates that cannot be walked through on foot, lighting and sightlines after dark.
02
Deliveries & packages
Where parcels sit, who can reach them, and whether the camera covering them produces anything usable.
03
Keys, fobs & credentials
What the association can actually account for, and what happens to a credential on move-out.
04
Occupancy & short-term lets
Lockboxes, code sharing and self check-in — assessed as controls, with an enforceable rule set for the board.
05
Garage & common areas
Bike rooms, storage cages, stairwells, roof and mechanical access — the parts of the building nobody owns.
06
Governance & response
Who owns security between meetings, what the vendor contract promises, and whether anyone has tested it.
Day-and-night site walk, access records and vendor contracts reviewedon site
Every finding prioritized, with a price rangeno cost · small spend · budget
Written for a board packet, not a security teamboard-ready
Presented at your board meeting if you want it presentedincluded
Fixed fee, agreed before we start — never a day ratequoted up front
Explicitly — findings split into no cost, small spend, and budget
Findings ranked with evidence and a remediation step
Incident logs
A quote
Risk-ranked, evidenced, with price ranges
Deliverable a volunteer board can act on without translating it
No
No
Written for a board packet — that is the point of it
Re-walk to confirm the gap closed
Not offered
Not offered
Yes, once the board has worked through the list
A general description of engagement models, not of any specific firm. Scope varies by provider — ask any shortlist the same questions.
Board document / Free
The Residential Self-Check.
Before the board budgets for it, walk the building. The 36-point checklist we use as the first lens on any condo, HOA or apartment building — from the garage gate to the package room, in a single walk-through.
Entry, deliveries, credentials, occupancy, common areas, governance6 sections
Scoring guide included36 points
Controls assessed — never residentsprivacy first
05 / Questions
Asked often.
One building, assessed on foot in daylight and after dark, across six areas: entry and perimeter, deliveries and packages, keys and fob credentials, occupancy and short-term lets, garage and common areas, and governance and vendor response. We also review your access-control records and security vendor contracts. You receive a single board-ready report: every finding prioritized, evidenced, and carrying a price range.
It is a fixed fee, quoted before any work starts — not a day rate, and not an hourly meter that runs while we are in your garage. The number depends on the size of the building, the number of entrances and amenity areas, and whether the association has usable access-control records. You get the figure on the twenty-minute scoping call, in writing, with no obligation. Associations tell us it lands in the same range as the third-party reports they already commission.
No, and we will not be asked into a building on that basis. We assess the building’s controls — whether the door latches, whether a credential was deactivated on move-out, whether there is a lockbox on the side gate. We do not observe, log, photograph or profile residents or their visitors, and the enforceable rules we help boards write are about credentials, lockboxes and check-in workflows, never about who a resident is or who comes to see them.
About three weeks from the site walk to a document in your board packet. What the board receives is a prioritized list of findings, each with evidence and a price range, split into fixes that cost nothing, small spends, and items for next year’s budget — plus, if you want it, a presentation of the findings at your board meeting. It is written to be read at that meeting, not decoded afterwards.
We also advise on office, government and critical infrastructure security — facility assessment, social engineering testing, access control review and retained advisory. See the full practice.
06 / Contact
Tell us about your building.
Twenty minutes is enough to tell you whether an assessment is worth your association’s money. We’ll be honest either way.
