When the build slips, the budget bleeds.
Cybersecurity that respects the schedule.
Construction and engineering firms run on tight margins, fixed milestones, and high-trust communication with owners, subs, and designers. That is exactly the profile attackers target — and exactly where AlecTech’s MSSP discipline pays off.
Construction is now a top-tier target
Five years ago, cyber risk was an IT problem. Today it is a project-delivery problem, a cash-flow problem, and — increasingly — an insurability problem.
Figures synthesized from published industry reporting and cyber-insurance claims data. AlecTech will tailor these to your firm’s profile on request.
Six pressure points on a modern jobsite
BIM servers, connected equipment, site trailers, accounting suites, designer collaboration — every link is a foothold if it is unmonitored.
Ransomware mid-project
File servers encrypted days before a pour or a milestone. Schedules slip. Liquidated damages accumulate. Insurers demand evidence of controls.
Project deliveryInvoice & wire fraud (BEC)
A spoofed email from “your sub” changes payment details just before a progress draw. Funds hit a mule account. Reconciling is slow; recovery is rare.
Cash flowDesign & tender IP theft
Drawings, bid packages, and engineering models exfiltrated before a tender closes — or sold years later to a competitor in another jurisdiction.
Competitive lossSub & designer compromise
Attacker pivots from a small sub’s mailbox into your project conversations. By the time anyone notices, change orders have been redirected.
Supply chainSite OT & connected equipment
IP cameras, telematics, smart equipment, and temporary site networks are rarely monitored — and increasingly scanned and probed from the public internet.
JobsiteCredential phishing on PMs
Project managers live in email. A single credential capture on a busy PM opens email, file shares, and cloud apps across every active project.
Human layerFour scenarios we have seen — and stopped
These are composite, anonymized patterns from real Canadian construction and engineering engagements. Names, sectors, and figures changed; the mechanics are honest.
A GC’s central design server is encrypted late on a Thursday. Monday’s pour is tied to a water-stop milestone with five-figure daily LDs. The in-house IT team is talented but two people deep.
AlecTech’s MDR had already isolated the affected segment on first detection. The Incident Response team stood up a recovery lane using the firm’s off-site immutable backups and coordinated directly with the cyber-insurance carrier.
An engineering firm’s AP clerk receives what looks like a routine banking update from a long-time mechanical sub. Tone is right; signature block is right; the domain is off by one letter.
Awareness-trained staff flagged it through a one-click SOC report. AlecTech validated the impersonation, notified the real sub, and pre-empted the fraudulent transfer before release.
A consulting engineering firm notices that competitors seem to know their tender numbers — repeatedly. A quiet risk assessment maps an old shared mailbox with weak auth still forwarding externally.
AlecTech’s team shut the leak, rotated credentials, and preserved evidence suitable for counsel. A vCISO engagement reset tender-handling controls across the firm.
A mid-size GC’s most important client — a provincial infrastructure owner — adds a 14-page security schedule to every contract. The firm has 30 days to attest or lose preferred-bidder status.
AlecTech’s regulatory compliance team mapped existing controls to the clause, closed six gaps in parallel, and produced owner-ready evidence — without grinding project delivery to a halt.
Why construction is different from “regular” IT
Generic MSSPs treat every client like a head-office network. Construction isn’t that. You run dozens of temporary jobsite environments, with roving staff, shared equipment, and designer/sub email traffic that looks nothing like a bank.
AlecTech’s model is built for that reality: SOC coverage that follows the project, response windows that respect the pour schedule, and evidence in a form your owners, insurers, and auditors actually accept.
You don’t need more noisy dashboards. You need an execution muscle aligned to how construction actually delivers.
What “construction-grade” means here
- Trailer-to-HQ coverage. Monitoring that extends to site networks, not just the corporate VLAN.
- Schedule-aware response. Containment choices tuned to critical-path tasks, not calendar days.
- Cash-flow protection. AP, wire, and change-order workflows hardened against BEC.
- Owner/insurer evidence. Logs, control attestations, and narratives in the form they request.
- Canadian footprint. PIPEDA, Law 25, and provincial critical-infrastructure expectations.
The solutions that map to this industry
Every AlecTech service exists somewhere on a construction firm’s risk map. These are the ones we lead with — and the order we usually lead with them in.
Built as an execution muscle, not a PowerPoint deck
AlecTech is a Canadian MSSP. The deliverables are operational — detections, responses, evidence, and governance — run by a team that understands how construction projects actually get paid.
Jobsite-aware coverage
We design controls around how construction really operates — distributed sites, rotating crews, shared equipment, and designer/sub traffic that looks nothing like a standard office network.
Schedule-first response
Every containment, patch, and drill is planned against critical-path tasks. Security that respects the milestone is security that gets adopted.
Canadian context
PIPEDA, Law 25, provincial critical-infrastructure expectations, and CyberSecure Canada — all held by a team that lives in the same regulatory landscape you do.
The rules that land in construction contracts today
Not every firm needs every framework — but the ones showing up in owner clauses, insurance renewals, and lender questionnaires are converging fast.
One MSSP, one construction program
We rarely sell a single service into construction. The pattern that actually moves the needle is a small, opinionated combination — deployed in a sequence that matches how project risk shows up.
Your next milestone shouldn’t depend on luck.
Book a 30-minute working session with AlecTech. We will map the top three cyber risks against your current project portfolio and leave you with a plan you can actually run.
