IT support built for real estate agencies
You got into property to sell homes and build a rent roll. Not to troubleshoot VPN connections between offices or wonder whether your trust account data is actually secure. Your agency holds buyer financials, seller contracts, and settlement instructions that attackers actively target. CIO Tech manages your IT so you can manage your agency.
Your agency is a target and nobody is watching
Real estate agencies handle large financial transactions every week. Settlement fraud, trust account breaches, and business email compromise are not hypothetical risks. They are happening to agencies across Sydney right now.
Settlement fraud hits real estate first
Attackers compromise email accounts and intercept settlement instructions. They change bank details on a Friday afternoon. The buyer transfers $800,000 to a criminal’s account. This is business email compromise, and conveyancers and real estate agencies are the primary targets in Australia. If your email is not properly secured, every settlement your agency touches is at risk.
Trust account data with no protection
The Real Estate and Business Agents Act requires you to safeguard trust account records. Buyer and seller financials, deposit receipts, rental bond details, tenant personal information. Most agencies store this across Rex or PropertyMe, email inboxes, and shared drives with no access controls. One compromised password exposes everything.
Multi-office, multi-device, no consistency
Your principal office runs one setup. The branch in Parramatta runs another. Agents work from phones and laptops in the field, at open homes, and from their cars. Nobody set up security policies for any of it. Every device that connects to your systems without protection is a door you left unlocked.
IT that understands how real estate agencies operate
CIO Tech works with property businesses across Sydney. We know your platforms, your multi-office challenges, and the regulatory requirements around trust account data. Here’s what changes when your agency has a proper IT team.
Rex, Agentbox, PropertyMe, Console. Handled.
We support the platforms real estate agencies actually run on. CRM, property management, trust accounting, digital document signing. We keep them running, integrated, and backed up. When Rex throws an error at 4pm on a Friday, you call us instead of losing an hour you don’t have.
Email security that stops settlement fraud
Every CIO Tech Assured plan includes Microsoft 365 hardening with multi-factor authentication, anti-phishing protections, and SPF/DKIM/DMARC alignment (email authentication standards that prevent attackers from impersonating your domain). This significantly reduces the risk of business email compromise, the attack that costs Australian property businesses millions every year.
Every office, every agent, one standard
We manage security and IT across all your locations. Head office, branch offices, agents in the field. Every device gets the same Essential Eight controls, the same EDR protection, and the same monitoring. No gaps between offices, no unprotected phones accessing client data at open homes.
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, we drive over. CIO Tech Assured starts from $500/month with published pricing. No offshore helpdesk, no ticket queue. An engineer who knows your agency and picks up the phone.
Security built for high-value transactions
Real estate agencies move money every day. That makes you a higher-value target than most small businesses. CIO Tech builds four layers of protection around your agency, 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 block the most common attacks before they reach your trust account systems.
BEC protection for every inbox
Business Email Compromise is the number one cyber threat to property businesses. We harden every Microsoft 365 inbox with anti-phishing rules, Safe Links and Safe Attachments, and SPF/DKIM/DMARC alignment so attackers cannot send emails that appear to come from your domain. Settlement instructions stay genuine.
EDR on every device
Endpoint Detection and Response monitors every computer, laptop, and phone in your agency for suspicious behaviour. Agents working from the field, property managers in branch offices, admin at head office. If ransomware tries to encrypt your files, EDR detects it and isolates the device automatically.
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 trust account records, property management data, and client contracts are recoverable even in a worst-case scenario. We test restores every month.
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 property 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 real estate agencies, law firms, medical practices, and professional services firms across Sydney. Every client gets the same security depth, the same local team, and the same direct access to engineers.
CIO Tech
Bella Vista, Western Sydney
Essential Eight
Implemented across every Assured plan
Western Sydney
Local Bella Vista team, on-site capable
Published pricing
From $500/month, no surprises
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