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The trades business where one fake invoice ends a quarter.

Field laptops, estimating software, and the wire-fraud playbook every trade business eventually needs. Built for crews that work where the Wi-Fi is spotty and the margins are thin.

The risks we see at trades and construction companies

AP wire fraud

Construction is now the #1 industry targeted for fake-invoice attacks. The numbers are public — and the playbook is too.

Field-laptop loss

Laptops travel to job sites. Encryption isn't optional and neither is remote wipe.

Estimating-software outage

When the estimating tool is down, bids don't go out. A day of downtime is a real lost-deal.

Owner-targeted phishing

Trades owners are public-facing on permits and contracts. Phishers know your address and your projects.

The Micro-IT trades stack

A trades client on our managed stack gets every field laptop encrypted and remotely wipeable, every account locked with MFA, and a one-page invoice-verification process that has stopped attacks for clients in the past.

  • Managed Endpoint on every field laptop
  • Full-disk encryption + remote wipe
  • Managed Inbox with impersonation protection + MFA
  • Mobile Device Management on every device
  • Estimating-software backup
  • AP wire-verification playbook + annual signoff

What changes in the first 90 days

Trades businesses often arrive with field laptops that have never been encrypted, an AP process that lives in the owner's head, and an estimating server that hasn't been backed up since installation. By day 90, the field is locked down, the AP process is documented, and the estimating data is recoverable.

Available across the region: Paducah, KY · Calvert City, KY · Metropolis, IL · Carbondale, IL · Mayfield, KY · Evansville, IN — full service-area list at Western Kentucky & the region.

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