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.
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.
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.
Procore, Aconex, Buildertrend, supported
We support the project management platforms construction companies actually use. When Procore isn’t syncing across devices, when Aconex logins stop working, when Buildertrend won’t load on a site tablet, you call us. We resolve it. Your project management software stays running so your projects stay on schedule.
Email protection that stops invoice fraud
Every CIO Tech Assured plan includes Essential Eight controls and Microsoft 365 hardening. We deploy anti-phishing protections, Safe Links, Safe Attachments, and SPF/DKIM/DMARC alignment (email authentication that stops attackers impersonating your domain). Your accounts payable team gets a properly secured inbox instead of a guessing game.
Every device managed, wherever it is
We deploy endpoint management and EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) on every company device. Phones, laptops, tablets. If a device is left in a van and gets stolen, we can wipe it remotely. If ransomware tries to encrypt files on a site foreman’s laptop, EDR detects and isolates it before it spreads. You get visibility across every device your crew uses.
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 with published pricing and no hidden costs.
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.
Essential Eight controls
Eight security controls from the Australian Cyber Security Centre, covering patching, admin access restrictions, multi-factor authentication (a second verification step when logging in), and application control. These are the same controls that principals and insurers are starting to ask about on tender questionnaires.
EDR on every device
Endpoint Detection and Response monitors every phone, laptop, and tablet your crew uses. If ransomware tries to encrypt project files on a foreman’s laptop that was left in a van overnight, EDR detects the behaviour and isolates the device automatically. Your project data stays intact.
Immutable backups, tested monthly
Three copies of your data. Two different storage types. One copy offsite. All immutable, meaning no attacker can alter or delete them. Your tender documents, project records, contracts, and financial data are recoverable even after a worst-case attack. And we test restores every month, because a backup that has never been tested is not a backup.
Microsoft 365 hardening
Invoice fraud starts in email. We harden your Microsoft 365 tenant with multi-factor authentication, anti-phishing protections, Safe Links and Safe Attachments, and SPF/DKIM/DMARC alignment (email authentication standards that stop attackers impersonating your suppliers). Your accounts payable inbox becomes significantly harder to compromise.
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 approachThe 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.
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, no surprises
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