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Construction IT Assessment

Construction runs on sites that did not exist last quarter and will not exist next year. Head office is usually stable. Everything past the site gate is improvised: a cellular router in a trailer, a superintendent working from a truck, drawings shared through whichever link opened fastest that morning. The Construction IT Assessment is a free review of that gap, run by NetFusion Designs from 141 Main Street N, Markham.

It is a written picture of where your job-site connectivity, mobile crews, project files and payment approvals are exposed, ranked by risk, with a plain recommendation attached to each finding. There is no charge, and what you do with the report is your business.

What the Construction IT Assessment covers

Generic IT reviews look at head office and stop. This one follows the work out to where it happens, because that is where construction firms are exposed and where an office-shaped review has nothing useful to say.

We have done this work at scale before. Our project with PCL Construction covers site connectivity and safety systems in the field, and the broader construction IT services page explains how we support builders day to day.

What you get back

Findings come back ranked by risk and written for the person who signs the cheque, not the person who holds the certification. Every finding says the same four things, in the same order, so an owner or controller can read the document straight through without translation.

Usually fixable quickly
  • Multi-factor authentication available but not enforced.
  • Site tablets and phones never enrolled and unable to be wiped.
  • No visible warning on email from outside the company.
  • No verification step before banking details are changed.
  • Backups that run nightly and have never been restored from.
Needs a plan, not a patch
  • One file server carrying every drawing set the company owns.
  • Site connectivity with no failover on projects carrying damages.
  • An end-of-life system a live project depends on.
  • Tenants, domains and licences held in a former employee's name.

Nothing in the report carries a price, and nothing obliges you to buy anything from us. In most assessments a fair share of the findings are things your existing IT support can put right, and we say so where that is true.

How the assessment runs, step by step

Four stages, in order, with nothing happening you have not agreed to first.

1
Discovery call

A conversation rather than a questionnaire. How many sites are active, how crews connect, which systems the business cannot lose, and what has gone wrong recently enough to still annoy you. We agree in that call what is in scope and what we will not touch.

2
The assessment

We review the environment you agreed to show us: connectivity at head office and at the sites you nominate, device and identity configuration, file storage and backup, and the controls around payment approvals. Read-only wherever it can be, and nothing changed without your say-so.

3
Findings

We write up what we found and rank it by risk. You receive the document whether or not you speak to us again, and you may send it to another provider without asking us.

4
Recommendations

We walk you through the findings and separate what your current arrangement can handle from what genuinely needs outside help. When the honest answer is that you do not need us, that is the answer you get.

What the assessment does not include

An assessment is a look, not a repair, and the boundary is worth stating before you book rather than after.

Who this suits, and who should ask for something else

The assessment is built for a particular shape of business. Where it does not fit, there is a better answer than a badly aimed review.

Several sites active at once, crews working from tablets and phones
→ A good fit
Drawings and models shared through whichever link works
→ A good fit
Accounts releases progress draws on emailed instructions
→ A good fit
One office, no trailers, everything already in the cloud
→ Ask for a general IT review instead
You need a tested attack simulation with proof of exploitation
→ Engage a penetration testing firm
You need a signed certificate for a client or an insurer
→ Engage an auditor, not a managed IT provider
You already know the fix and simply want it done
→ Skip the assessment and ask us to quote the work

If your business is mostly fabrication rather than site work, the Manufacturing IT Assessment is the closer fit, because the interesting risks sit on a shop floor rather than in a trailer.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Construction IT Assessment really free?

Yes, with no charge and no obligation attached. We offer it because a clear written picture of an environment is the most useful thing we can hand a construction business we have not worked with before, and because a share of those businesses come back to us later. Some never do, and the report is still theirs.

Do you need to visit our job sites?

Usually not. Most of the review is done remotely against the systems you nominate on the discovery call. Where a specific site's connectivity is the thing worrying you, a visit can be arranged, and we will say plainly when we think one is needed rather than guessing from head office.

Will the assessment interrupt work on site?

It should not. The review is read-only wherever possible, and nothing is changed without your approval. If a step would carry a genuine risk of disruption, we tell you before it happens and let you choose whether it goes ahead.

We already have an IT provider. Is this awkward?

It comes up often and it is fine. The report belongs to you, so hand it to your provider and ask them to work through it. Plenty of firms do exactly that and never become clients of ours.

What happens to the information you see?

It stays with us and is not shared. NetFusion Designs is SOC 2 Type 2 attested, and assessment work is handled under the same controls as client work. If you would like that in writing beforehand, ask on the discovery call.

Book your Construction IT Assessment

Tell us where to reach you and we will arrange the discovery call. Our helpdesk and Security Operations Centre are staffed around the clock, we target one hour on critical issues, and 95% of tickets are resolved same day. Prefer to talk? Call 647-476-5259.

We respect your privacy. We will not send you marketing you did not ask for.

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