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Anonymized engagements from across our work — client names withheld for privacy, drawn from real deployments in security systems, monitoring, life safety, IT security, consulting and hardware.

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Security clients value discretion, so these stay anonymous. Each one maps to an actual engagement across the services we run today — systems, monitoring, life safety, IT security, consulting and hardware.

Security Systems · National retail chain

Unifying surveillance across 40+ retail locations

Challenge

A multi-province retailer was running a patchwork of aging analog DVRs across more than forty stores, with no central visibility, recurring footage gaps, and loss-prevention investigations that took days to pull clips from individual sites.

What IRFI did

We designed and rolled out a standardized IP camera platform with cloud-managed video and access control, migrating every location onto a single dashboard with role-based access for regional and loss-prevention managers. The cutover was phased store-by-store to avoid trading downtime.

Outcome

The chain now works from one pane of glass across all sites, footage is retrieved in minutes instead of days, and the highest-risk stores saw a measurable drop in shrink within two quarters.

40+sites unified
~28%shrink drop, pilot stores
Minutesto retrieve any clip
Monitoring & Response · Residential condominium portfolio

Cutting false-alarm dispatches for a condo portfolio

Challenge

A property manager overseeing several high-rise condominium corporations was absorbing costly false-alarm dispatches, slow after-hours response, and resident complaints about unattended lobby and garage incidents.

What IRFI did

We moved monitoring to a certified central station and layered remote video monitoring over the existing cameras, so live operators could visually verify each alarm before dispatch and escalate genuine events to police or fire with eyes-on confirmation.

Outcome

The verified-response model sharply reduced nuisance dispatches and false-alarm fees, while real incidents were actioned faster with video confirmation attached.

62%fewer false dispatches
<60sto verify an alarm
24/7live operator coverage
Life Safety & Fire · Long-term care / healthcare

Holding compliance through a fire-system retrofit

Challenge

A long-term care operator had an aging fire alarm panel flagged at inspection, and faced mandatory fire-watch coverage plus compliance exposure during a multi-week retrofit in an occupied, round-the-clock building.

What IRFI did

We provided supervised fire alarm monitoring, scheduled trained fire-watch coverage through every impaired period, refreshed the evacuation plan and emergency communication, and sequenced the retrofit around resident-care routines.

Outcome

The facility maintained continuous compliance, passed re-inspection on the first attempt, and trimmed fire-watch hours by tightly scheduling the impaired windows.

0compliance gaps in retrofit
~35%less fire-watch spend
1stpass on re-inspection
IT & Cyber Security · Mid-market logistics

Segmenting IT, OT and the security network

Challenge

A distribution company ran cameras, access control and business systems on one flat network with thin firewall rules and no recent assessment — a single compromise could have reached everything on it.

What IRFI did

We carried out a cyber risk assessment, segmented the environment so physical-security systems, operational systems and corporate IT were isolated from one another, hardened the firewalls, and brought the network under managed monitoring.

Outcome

Critical exposure was closed, the security network was walled off from corporate IT in both directions, and the client gained continuous visibility through managed monitoring.

11critical vulns closed
3isolated network zones
24/7managed monitoring
Security Consulting & Risk · Public-sector / municipal

A multi-year security master plan for a municipal campus

Challenge

A public-sector body planning a new multi-building campus needed an evidence-based security strategy — and a defensible, prioritized capital plan — before committing budget to systems and infrastructure.

What IRFI did

We delivered a threat and risk assessment across people, property and process, a CPTED design review of the site, a phased multi-year security master plan, and the supporting policies, post orders and procedures.

Outcome

Leadership received a prioritized roadmap mapped to budget cycles, letting them invest where risk was highest rather than spreading spend evenly and thin.

TVRA+ CPTED review delivered
3-yrprioritized roadmap
Risk-ledcapital plan
Physical Security Products & Hardware · Critical infrastructure / data-centre

Hardening the perimeter and entry at a critical site

Challenge

A high-sensitivity facility had an exposed vehicle approach, tailgating at the main entrance, and door hardware that fell short of the assurance level the site required.

What IRFI did

We specified and installed crash-rated bollards and barriers along the approach, mantrap turnstiles and high-security electronic locks at controlled entries, and anti-intrusion security glazing — all integrated with the existing access-control system.

Outcome

The vehicle threat was mitigated, tailgating was designed out at the entrance, and every entry event became fully controlled and audited.

Crash-ratedperimeter installed
0tailgating at entry
100%audited entry events

Client identities, sites and exact figures are withheld or generalized to protect our clients’ security posture and confidentiality. Specifics are available under NDA on request.

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