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Change orders, weather windows, and lien laws do not pause because someone clicked a fake ACH email. intSignal runs corporate and jobsite IT, MDR, and recoverable project data—including jobsite cameras and VMS, field IoT on gatewayed paths, and governed AI for drawings and submittals where your policies allow—with SLAs that respect closeout, owner turnover, and the difference between “we’ll VPN in later” and a concrete pour on Tuesday.
Delivery models
General contracting, specialty trades, and regional builders—three footprints where cash, subs, and jobsite access collide.
Multi-year megaprojects, joint ventures, and owner-furnished systems where one weak subcontractor credential becomes a payment or drawing leak across the whole job.
Fleet, fabrication shops, and service vans where mobile identity and rugged devices matter as much as HQ.
High churn superintendents, design centers, and warranty teams sharing the same file shares as finance.
Pressures
Where construction IT breaks
Shared trailer Wi-Fi passwords, personal Gmail forwarding company drawings, and ACH changes requested by email without call-back. Backups that never include the estimating server until ransomware finds it first.
intSignal delivery
Named ownership from HQ to trailer—with monthly evidence your surety, owner, and internal audit teams can trace when something goes wrong.
Six programs
HQ, area offices, and field trailers with imaging that survives rough handling and turnover.
Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Bluebeam-adjacent ops—identity and sync health as your application teams define.
Guest access, partner tenants, and shared data rooms without permanent shadow accounts.
LTE/5G and SD-WAN for trailers; camera and VMS backhaul; IoT for gates, telemetry, and wearables—segmented from estimating and payment VLANs.
Detection and response that understands bid week, payroll, and owner reporting rhythms.
Continuity for weather and supply shocks; AI for submittals, RFIs, and schedule risk when contracts allow; modernization with explicit handoff to run-state.
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Risk & prequal
We do not guarantee bonding outcomes—but we can operate so your questionnaires match reality.
Finance, estimating, and ERP admin lists with remediation tickets—not screenshots from last year.
Subs, OEMs, and SaaS mapped to owners and review cadence with procurement.
Technical execution for flows your counsel approves for minors—we do not interpret child pExceptions with compensating controls when OT-adjacent systems require deferral.rivacy law.
Dual approval and call-back evidence aligned with AP—not security improvising policy.
Scenarios that include fake change orders, compromised bid portals, and camera or IoT vendor accounts—not generic ransomware slides.
Results tied to estimating and PM tiers your COO recognizes.
Engagement
From assessment through steady-state operations—with evidence your surety, owners, and auditors can follow.
Project portfolio, PM and ERP map, jobsite connectivity sketch, camera and IoT inventory, AI pilots touching project data, prior payment fraud or breach near-misses, prequal themes.
Standard builds for trailers, imaging for supers, baseline identity cleanup before the next big award.
Email and web controls for wire fraud, MDR tuning for construction lures, segmentation for BIM and file shares, and hardened paths for camera NVRs and IoT gateways.
MSP and SOC steady state with SLAs aligned to bid and payroll calendars—not generic 9–5 coverage pretending to be 24/7.
Monthly evidence packages, DR tests with estimating at the table, and continuous improvement with operations leadership.
Turnover & closeout
Systems, warranties, and as-built data handoffs require clean offboarding for subs and integrators—not forgotten VPNs into a job that already turned over. We document decommission steps and access removal so legal and project controls share the same story.
Outcomes
Payment verification discipline coordinated with AP—not security lecturing finance after the fact.
Repeatable trailer and site kits so supers spend Sunday on logistics, not printer drivers.
Fewer vendor arguments when ERP, PM, and network disagree during month-end.
Partner access that expires on contract dates with tickets to prove it.
FAQ
We typically operate adjacent identity, integration, monitoring, and infrastructure per your SOW. In-product configuration, permission models, and workflow design stay with your VDC or project technology team unless explicitly scoped.
Yes—standard hardware kits, imaging, LTE/5G or temporary WAN patterns, and decommission checklists are built around your mobilization cadence, with asset tracking tied to ITAM where you want it.
Technical controls (email authentication, safe-link policies, MDR) plus operational coordination: escalation trees that include AP controllers and project managers—not only the SOC. Call-back rules remain your policy; we document what we changed when incidents occur.
Where industrial control or telematics systems touch corporate networks, we align with ICS and OT security practices your engineering team approves—scoped separately from standard office IT when required.
We typically secure and operate the IT side: network placement, identity, logging, patch ownership boundaries, and vendor remote access for VMS and IoT gateways. Field deployment, model training, and owner-required retention for video remain with your GC, safety, and legal teams unless explicitly scoped. AI on drawings or RFIs follows your data classification and subcontract terms.
Share contractor type, approximate active jobs and headcount, primary PM/ERP stack, and top risk drivers. We respond with a proposed service map, RACI, and commercial approach.
Construction runs on a project lifecycle that no fixed-office IT model fits. Every new build starts a temporary site office, a trailer or container that needs power, printing, a network for field tablets, and access to the same drawings and schedules as headquarters, then gets torn down at closeout and redeployed to the next job. Standing that up fast matters, because idle crews and delayed submittals cost money and general contractors are judged on schedule. Job sites also sit where fiber usually does not, so connectivity means bonded cellular, fixed wireless, or satellite links such as Starlink, ideally with automatic failover so a single carrier outage does not stall a concrete pour or an inspection.
The workload is bursty and seasonal. A firm may run 3 active sites in winter and 15 in peak season, spin up a joint-venture office for one mega-project, and demobilize a team the moment a job reaches closeout. Traditional procurement, with hardware lead times and per-seat licenses on annual terms, does not flex that way. intSignal treats each site as a repeatable, templated deployment: a standard network kit, pre-enrolled devices, and cloud-delivered services that activate for a project and switch off when it ends, so you pay for capacity while a job is live and stop paying when it demobilizes. Managed SD-WAN gives every trailer the same secured, monitored path to your cloud apps and headquarters, with 24/7 monitoring so a field superintendent is never the one troubleshooting the link.
Most of a construction company's people never touch a corporate desk. Superintendents, foremen, project engineers, and subcontractors work from phones and rugged tablets running Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, PlanGrid, Bluebeam, and email, often on personal devices and public or cellular networks. That erases the old office perimeter: there is no firewall between the user and the internet, devices are lost or stolen on active sites, and one reused password can expose project financials and client data. The answer is identity-centric rather than network-centric. We enforce phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication, single sign-on across your project and accounting apps, and conditional access so only enrolled, healthy devices reach sensitive systems.
Mobile device management is the backbone. Company and BYOD phones and tablets are enrolled so drawings, models, and email live in a managed, encrypted container that can be wiped remotely when a device is lost or a subcontractor rolls off the job, without touching the worker's personal photos. We push app configuration, enforce screen locks and encryption, and separate corporate data from personal use so both the company and the worker are comfortable with BYOD. A zero-trust approach ties it together, verifying user, device, and context on every request instead of trusting something simply because it reached the network, which is the only realistic model for a workforce that is never behind one office wall.
Construction is one of the most heavily targeted industries for business email compromise and wire fraud, and the reason is simple: projects move large sums between many parties on predictable schedules. Draw requests, subcontractor payments, retainage releases, and progress billings are exactly the transactions attackers hijack, most often by compromising or spoofing an email account and sending a last-minute change of banking details just before a payment goes out. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center has reported BEC losses in the billions of dollars annually across industries, and a single diverted construction draw can run into six or seven figures. Defense is layered: advanced email security to catch spoofing and account takeover, strict authentication so a look-alike vendor domain is flagged, and, just as important, an out-of-band verification process so no banking change is ever actioned on an email alone.
The other prize is the project data itself. BIM and CAD models, point clouds, submittals, RFIs, daily reports, and site photography are the digital record of the job, and losing them to ransomware or accidental deletion can stall a project and expose the firm to claims. These are large files that change constantly and are edited by many hands across cloud platforms and local workstations, so backup has to cover both. We protect the model and its supporting data with versioned, immutable, offsite backups, set RPO/RTO targets per system, and test restores so recovering a corrupted Revit central file or an entire project folder is a routine procedure rather than a crisis. Independent research such as the IBM Cost of a Data Breach report consistently shows that organizations with tested recovery and strong identity controls contain incidents faster and at lower cost.
Yes. We deploy each site from a standard, pre-configured network kit that uses bonded cellular, fixed wireless, or satellite links such as Starlink when wired service is not available, usually within days of mobilization. Managed SD-WAN adds automatic failover between carriers and a secured, monitored connection back to your cloud apps and headquarters, so a single link outage does not stop field work.
We combine advanced email security that detects spoofing and account takeover with strict domain authentication that flags look-alike vendor addresses, and we harden the accounts that touch payments with phishing-resistant MFA. Just as important, we help you put an out-of-band verification step in place so a change to banking details is confirmed by phone to a known contact and never actioned on an email alone. Most six- and seven-figure construction losses come down to that missing verification.
Yes. We enroll company and personal devices in mobile device management so project apps, drawings, and email live in an encrypted, managed container that can be wiped remotely when a device is lost or a worker rolls off the job, without touching personal data. We enforce encryption, screen locks, and conditional access so only healthy, enrolled devices reach sensitive systems, which makes BYOD workable for both the company and the crew.
We protect both the cloud platforms and the local workstations where large model files actually change, using versioned, immutable, offsite backups so a corrupted central file or an earlier revision can be rolled back. We set RPO and RTO targets per system and test restores regularly, so recovering a Revit model or an entire project folder after ransomware or an accidental deletion is a routine procedure rather than an emergency.
Yes, that is the point of our model. Each site is a templated, repeatable deployment of network, devices, and cloud services that activate when a job mobilizes and switch off at closeout, so you pay for capacity while a project is live and stop when it demobilizes. That fits the seasonal and project-based reality of construction far better than annual per-seat contracts and fixed hardware, and it lets you stand up a joint-venture office or a peak-season surge without a procurement cycle.