You said · Growing faster than our IT
Industry · Construction and engineering
The contracts got bigger. The IT stayed the same size.
Most construction firms we work with built their IT for a team of fifteen. It was simple. A shared drive, a few laptops, and manual onboarding. It held together until the first major prime contractor questionnaire arrived. Now the head office is hiring faster than your one IT person can keep up. Offboarding leaves licences active. Onboarding takes days of manual setup.
What this usually looks like
What outgrowing looks like in Australian construction.
You are bidding for work with Lendlease, Multiplex, or CPB. They require MFA enforcement, EDR coverage, and Essential Eight ML1 self-attestation. Your current setup cannot prove you meet these standards. The answer to half their security questions is 'we are not sure'.
Mandatory ransomware reporting kicks in if your turnover exceeds three million dollars. You have no incident response plan that works for a mobile workforce. Site connectivity is patchy. Mobile devices roam between sites, homes, and the office with no identity posture worth the name.
The work underneath is not glamorous. It is identity, endpoint, backup, and a documentation trail that survives audit. Done properly once, it scales with the business. Done in a panic before a prequal deadline, it fails.
Where we'd start
What we would do in the first ninety days.
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Step 01
Get the baseline in place
We enforce MFA on all cloud services and manage endpoints centrally with EDR. We connect identity lifecycle to your HR system so onboarding and offboarding are automatic. We verify backups by restoring from them. These controls are non-negotiable for our clients and match what your principals demand.
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Step 02
Make the answers to the questionnaire defensible
We have filled in enough prequal packs for Procore and Aconex integration to know which questions are load bearing. We back every yes with evidence. For gaps, we provide a plan and a date. Principal auditors score a dated plan higher than a stretched claim.
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Step 03
Build for the next year of growth
Most firms size their IT for the jobs won 18 months ago. We look at your hiring plan and data storage needs for Jobpac and Cheops. We build the platform once so the next hundred staff do not require a second rebuild. This supports modern slavery compliance and WHS record retention without manual effort.
Baseline controls, shared decisions
We take security so seriously, it's not optional.
Every plan includes the same core protections, because these are the controls that stop most of what we get called to. Phish-resistant multi-factor authentication. Known vulnerabilities closed within thirty days. Backups we have tested by restoring. Access removed the day someone leaves. A password manager, and a Microsoft 365 tenant that is hardened and kept that way. Those are not negotiable.
Beyond that, the right controls depend on your business, and application control is the clearest example. It is the strongest defence against software that should not run, and it costs real money and time to operate. A financial planning firm earns that cost back. A lawn care business rarely does. Knowing which one you are is our job, not yours.
Where a control does not fit, we agree that with you and write it down. You either source it elsewhere at your own cost, or we record the gap and what we both accepted. Nobody should learn about it during an incident.
We will still say no to a change we think ends in a breach, because we are in that incident with you. If you want every request actioned without anyone asking what it costs you, we are the wrong firm.
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The highest-impact controls are in every plan
A password manager, tested backups, endpoint and identity threat detection, and a hardened Microsoft 365 tenant come with all four plans. They are not priced separately.
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The rest we assess against your business
Above the baseline we assess each control against how you actually work, then tell you which ones earn their cost. Whatever we settle on, we write it down.
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We can say no to a change
If a request would leave you exposed, we will say so and we will not action it quietly. Convenience is worth arguing about. A breach is not.
What each plan includes
The full list of controls, and which plan includes which, is on the plans page.
Track record
Twenty years in. A hundred-plus clients. Every technician in Australia.
- Years in business
- 20+
- Loved clients
- 100+
- Aussie techs
- 100%
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The qualifier
Let's see if we're a fit.
Seven questions, one moment of your time. We'd rather tell you now than three months in.