Google Review
“I had a great experience with the team at CIOTech. Their team was professional and really took the time to understand our needs.”
Belinda Head
IT SUPPORT FOR CONSTRUCTION
IT support built for construction companies
Your crew runs on phones and utes, not server rooms. But the contract you just won has a cyber policy clause, and right now, you can’t answer it. Devices get left in vans overnight. Tender documents sit in shared inboxes. Invoice scams target your accounts payable team every week. CIO Tech manages your IT so your crew keeps building while your business stays protected.
Bella Vista, NSW
Same-day on-site
Construction specialists
THE REALITY
Your office manager is also your IT department
Construction businesses don’t have IT teams. The office manager handles it between processing invoices and chasing subbies. That works until it doesn’t. And when it doesn’t, the cost isn’t a help desk ticket. It’s a project delay.
Invoice fraud is hitting construction hard
A subcontractor sends through an invoice with updated bank details. Your accounts payable team pays it. Except it wasn’t the subcontractor. Business email compromise is the single most common cyber attack on construction companies, because the payment amounts are large, invoices are frequent, and verification is rare. One compromised email costs tens of thousands.
Tender documents with no protection
Your pricing, margins, supplier rates, and project bids sit in email attachments and shared drives with no access controls. If a competitor or a disgruntled ex-employee gets hold of your tender pricing, you lose the commercial advantage you spent years building. Most construction businesses have never reviewed who has access to what.
Mobile crews, zero visibility
Your people work across multiple sites. Phones get left in vans overnight. Laptops connect to open Wi-Fi at cafes. Devices run without patches, without endpoint protection, without anyone knowing whether they’re compromised. There’s no central management, no inventory, and no way to wipe a device if it goes missing from a site.
THE SOLUTION
IT that works from the site, not just the office
CIO Tech works with construction companies across Sydney. We know your crew isn’t sitting at desks, your devices move between sites daily, and your project data can’t be recreated if it’s lost. Here’s what changes when you have proper IT behind your business.
When Procore won’t load on the site tablet
Procore not syncing the latest drawings to the site tablet. Aconex logins stuck on the supervisor’s phone the morning a payment claim is due. Buildxact crashing every time the estimator opens a tender. You call us, not the vendor’s overseas helpdesk. We know your project management stack and we keep it running so the crew on site can keep building.
The fake supplier email that redirects $40k, blocked
A subbie emails through new bank details on next month’s invoice. Except it isn’t the subbie. It’s an attacker who sat in the inbox for three weeks watching how you talk to suppliers. We tighten the email account where these scams land so the obvious fakes bounce, the clever ones land in quarantine, and an attacker pretending to be your director cannot reach the bookkeeper. Underneath, that is Essential Eight controls and M365 Hardening, included as standard.
The phone left in the ute overnight, wiped on demand
Site mobiles disappear. Laptops jump on dodgy Wi-Fi at the cafe down from the job. A foreman’s tablet gets handed to a labourer for a day. We see every company device your crew uses, push the patches that close the holes, and if a device walks off site we wipe it remotely before anyone gets near your tender folder. If ransomware tries to encrypt files on a supervisor’s laptop, the device is isolated automatically before it touches the next one. The technical name for this is endpoint detection and response, or EDR.
Local team, on-site when you need it
CIO Tech is based in Bella Vista, in the heart of Western Sydney. When something needs hands-on attention at your office or a job site, we drive over. No offshore helpdesk, no interstate call centre. CIO Tech Assured starts from $500/month plus GST with published pricing and no hidden costs.
WHERE DO YOU STAND?
Two ways to see where your IT stands
Pick the depth that suits the time you have right now.
2 minutes
2-minute Cyber Posture Snapshot
Six questions, instant qualitative grade. No PDF, no follow-up homework.
7 minutes
7-minute IT Maturity Assessment
Twenty-five questions, detailed PDF report with section scores and a priority action list.
Take the Assessment WHAT SYDNEY BUILDERS HEAR FROM US
Real reviews from real clients
A small sample of recent Google reviews. We protect what matters because the people who trust us deserve nothing less.
Google Review
“Highly recommend CIO Tech. Nav is extremely knowledgeable and helpful. No task was too big or too small. Thanks CIO Tech.”
Courtney Brett
Google Review
“CIO Tech did an outstanding job upgrading our systems and managing our IT. The process was smooth, efficient, and done with minimal disruption.”
Andrew Romano
FTC Consultants
BEFORE AND AFTER
In-house IT vs CIO Tech Assured
What changes when you move from ad-hoc IT to a managed baseline. Same business, different operating model.
In-house IT or break-fix
CIO Tech Assured
In-house One IT person who handles everything
Assured A team of engineers, each specialised
In-house Reactive. Fix it when it breaks
Assured Proactive. 24/7 monitoring catches issues first
In-house Patches when someone gets around to it
Assured Critical patches deployed within 48 hours
In-house Backups that may or may not actually restore
Assured Immutable 3-2-1 backups with monthly restore testing
In-house Security as a separate add-on quote
Assured Essential Eight included as standard
In-house No documented response time
Assured SLAs published, response time measured
In-house Phone calls answered when convenient
Assured Same-day on-site from Bella Vista
In-house Pricing per hour, surprise invoices
Assured Published pricing from $500 per month plus GST
THE SECURITY STACK
Security that protects what you can’t rebuild
Construction businesses hold tender pricing, contract documents, project records, and payment data. Losing it to ransomware or a compromised email isn’t an IT inconvenience. It’s a project at risk. CIO Tech builds four layers of protection around your business, all included as standard.
The principal’s cyber questionnaire, answerable
The cyber clause on the head contractor’s contract is the new normal, and most builders we talk to can’t answer half of it. We switch on the basic controls the questionnaire is actually asking about: patching kept current, admin access locked down, multi-factor authentication on every account, and only approved software allowed to run. The next time a principal sends through the security annexure, your office manager has answers, not a panic. The label for this is Essential Eight.
Ransomware on a site laptop stops at the laptop
A supervisor opens what looks like an updated set of drawings from the architect. One click and in most builders that single laptop is how every device on the network ends up encrypted, including the office machine with the tender pricing on it. We watch every phone, laptop, and tablet your crew uses for the warning signs of an attack and isolate the device automatically before it can touch the next one. The technical name for this is endpoint detection and response, or EDR.
Tender folders nobody can wipe overnight
Tender pricing, contract documents, RFIs, variations, payment claims, retention schedules. Three copies, two different storage types, one copy stored where an attacker cannot reach it even with full admin access. And we run a real restore every month, because the builders that lose project files are the ones that found out their backup did not work on the day they needed it. This is what 3-2-1 immutable backup means in plain English.
The bank-detail-change email that never lands
Invoice fraud always starts in email. The fake supplier statement. The phishing message pretending to be the ATO about your BAS. The link that drops malware on the bookkeeper’s laptop with the payroll file open. We tighten the email setup behind your business so the obvious attacks bounce, the not-so-obvious ones land in quarantine, and an attacker pretending to be your director cannot reach the inbox of accounts payable. The label for this is M365 Hardening.
We do not promise to eliminate risk. Nobody can. What we do is implement the controls that significantly reduce your exposure to the attacks that actually hit construction businesses in Australia, and verify those controls are working every month.
Learn more about our cybersecurity approach TRUSTED BY SYDNEY BUSINESSES
The same security depth, the same local team
We work with construction companies, trades businesses, medical practices, and professional services firms across Sydney. Every client gets the same security depth, the same published pricing, and the same local team that shows up when it matters.
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CIO Tech
Bella Vista, Western Sydney
Essential Eight
Answers tender and insurance questionnaires
Western Sydney
Local Bella Vista team, on-site capable
Published pricing
From $500/month plus GST, no surprises
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