it's also critically important to your neighboring buildings that yours doesn't burn down. we have a fire inspection regularly that comes and inspects for common causes of fires (electrical wiring, plugs, etc) to help reduce possibility of a fire. it's not our core competency, and we have to allow a specialist access to our business to help mitigate problems, both for us and people around us. Should we have some sort of analogous municipal data security inspectors?

Nailed it.