A contractor's office is wherever the work is this month: a trailer on a job site, a truck cab between inspections, an estimator's desk at 9 p.m. before a bid deadline. The technology has to follow, and lately so do the criminals. Construction now ranks second among industrial sectors for ransomware, and in one three-week stretch in mid-2026, two contractor progress payments totaling nearly a million dollars were diverted by email fraud.
Cyber Command provides managed IT services for construction companies across Central Florida: a 24/7 human helpdesk that reaches the field, defenses aimed at the payment fraud this industry attracts, and security operations built to reduce risk without slowing the job down.
Schedule a Strategy SessionSupport That Follows the Job Site
Our business IT services give your office and your field crews the same thing: a real person who answers around the clock, with no phone tree between a superintendent and a fix.
What that looks like day to day:
- Your project management and estimating stack supported end to end, with the integrations to Microsoft 365 and your file storage managed for you
- Field tablets, laptops, and phones kept working and secured, wherever the crew is
- Job-site connectivity that makes a trailer feel like an office: cellular links, site cameras, and secure remote access back to the main servers
- Crew onboarding and offboarding handled as a security task, because a foreman's account that outlives the foreman is an open door
Payment Fraud Is the Industry’s Quiet Epidemic
Business email compromise cost victims more than $3 billion in 2025 by the FBI's own count, and construction draw payments are a favorite target: large, scheduled, and negotiated over long email threads. In July 2026 a South Carolina town wired $545,000 meant for its contractor to a fraudster using a lookalike domain; weeks later a Minnesota county lost $400,000 the same way. In both cases the contractor finished the work and was left unpaid.
We attack the openings that scam depends on:
- Email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) so your name is hard to spoof
- Microsoft 365 rules that flag external senders and newly registered domains
- Registration and monitoring of the obvious misspellings of your company domain
- Documented verification procedures for any change to payment instructions
None of this makes fraud impossible. It is designed to make your firm a harder mark than the next one, and to surface a bad email in hours, when the FBI’s recovery odds are still real.
Ransomware Treats Contractors as Easy Money
Dragos counted 176 ransomware incidents against construction companies in the second quarter of 2026 alone, second only to manufacturing among industrial sectors. The ways in are ordinary: a phone call impersonating IT support, an unpatched VPN appliance, a remote-access tool nobody remembers installing. Increasingly the attackers skip encryption and just steal, so the first sign of trouble is a leak-site post and a class-action inquiry.
The human-managed security operations behind our construction clients handle the unglamorous work that counts: patching internet-facing gear, multifactor authentication everywhere, endpoint detection with people watching it, tested backups, and a response plan built so one bad laptop does not stall three active job sites.
Your File Server Is Full of Other People’s Secrets
Contractors hold subcontractor W-9s and banking details, employee licenses and ID scans collected for badging, bid numbers, and owner contracts. We put access controls around that data so one compromised account cannot reach all of it, and we review who can touch what as crews and office staff turn over.
Co-Managed IT for Growing Contractors
Plenty of general contractors have one overworked IT person riding herd on everything from Procore permissions to trailer Wi-Fi. Co-managed IT keeps that person and adds our depth: patching, monitoring, after-hours coverage, and project work that never leaves the someday list.
Serving Contractors Across Central Florida
Cyber Command is headquartered in Winter Springs and supports construction companies in Orlando, Tampa Bay, and Jacksonville, one of the busiest project pipelines in the country. Remote-first support, on site when hands need to touch hardware.
Construction IT Questions, Answered
What does IT support cost for a construction company? Most contractors pay a fixed monthly fee per user covering helpdesk, system management, and security tooling, with job-site connectivity scoped per site. The number moves with headcount and how many active sites you run. We quote after a short assessment so it reflects your operation.
Do you support Procore and our estimating software? Our helpdesk supports the project management, estimating, and takeoff tools contractors run daily, plus the integrations tying them to Microsoft 365 and your file storage. Tell us your stack during the assessment and we will be specific about what we handle.
Can you stop wire fraud outright? No one can, and you should hang up on anyone who says otherwise. What we do is remove the easy openings, flag the lookalike domains these scams use, and help you put verification procedures in place so a fraudulent payment change gets caught before money moves.
Can you set up IT for a new job site? Yes. Trailer networks, cellular or fixed wireless connectivity, site cameras, printers, and secure connections back to your main systems, stood up as part of your mobilization checklist rather than after the first outage.
What happens if we get hit with ransomware? Our team isolates affected systems, works the recovery from tested backups, and documents the incident for your insurer and counsel. The plan for that bad day gets written and rehearsed when you onboard, not improvised during it.
Talk to a real expert about your firm’s IT. Call (407) 587-0089 or reach us here. A real person answers, and the first conversation costs nothing.