Is Your Construction Software Solution Secure?

Technology certainly saved us when Covid 19 shut everything down a few years ago. Construction companies were able to keep working, though, thanks in large part to remote working technologies that allowed professional and administrative tasks to continue to collaborate with on-site staff.

However, when we all went online to do everything from ordering a food shop to seeing the doctor, it also created endless opportunities for cybercrime. This kind of crime has become a multi-billion pound global industry, and the vast majority of the targets are small to mid-sized companies.

The nature of the construction industry creates another challenge for construction data safety: access levels.

We all need digital construction tools that allow different people in different departments and even in different locations to collaborate and get the job done, but they don’t all need access to the same things.

So, while your foremen and supervisors probably need material lists and equipment budgets, they don’t need to see estimates and profit calculations. Likewise, your accounting team needs to access billing records, but they don’t need to see design drawings or project schedules.

The best construction data solutions offer granular permissions, so you can create as many types of users as you need to make sure that everyone has access to what they need and not to what they don’t.

Some of the best construction data and digital construction systems are cloud-based, and there are several reasons for this.

One is that you never have to worry about a hardware failure or network breach to compromise your information. Since most breaches are the result of human carelessness, that’s a very big thing to consider.

Another is that you never have to worry about maintaining or upgrading complex systems just to host all the information you need to store. It’s a headache-free, plug-and-play solution to some very complex issues.