Hurstville is the commercial centre of the St George area and one of the few suburbs south of the river with real office towers. The mix is distinctive: accounting, legal and financial practices in suites above the street, a very dense multilingual retail and food centre, a large medical and dental sector, and property and migration firms serving a fast-growing high-density population.
Kinsoft provides managed IT support, cybersecurity and cloud services across Hurstville, Kogarah, Rockdale, Beverly Hills, Penshurst and Mortdale.
What tends to be different about a Hurstville business
Property and conveyancing concentration raises the stakes. Apartment development has brought a cluster of conveyancing, property and migration practices to the area. They handle settlement funds and identity documents, which is the exact combination payment-redirection fraud targets, and the sums are large.
Suites are small and the building is not yours. Six-person practices on level five have no comms room and no control over incoming services. What can be changed is inside the tenancy.
Retail below, offices above. The same building often holds a food business at street level and professional suites upstairs, with entirely different needs and sometimes a shared house network that should not be shared.
Much of the workforce is multilingual. Security training has to be pitched so people genuinely follow it rather than simply being delivered.
Managed IT support
Monitoring, unlimited helpdesk, patching, backup verification and quarterly reviews for a predictable monthly fee, typically $80-$200 per user per month. See managed IT support.
Cybersecurity
Endpoint detection and response, email filtering, MFA, phishing simulation and Essential Eight alignment. See IT security and cybersecurity and the free security assessment.
For a conveyancing or property practice the attack that lands is a changed set of settlement details inside a genuine email thread. MFA on every mailbox, DMARC on the domain, and confirming payment details by phone on a previously known number prevents nearly all of it.
Get IT support in Hurstville
Call 02 9064 2663 or contact us online for a free IT health check. We cover Hurstville, Kogarah, Rockdale, Beverly Hills, Penshurst, Mortdale and the St George area.
We handle settlement funds. What protects us?
MFA on every mailbox so nobody can read the thread unnoticed, DMARC so your domain cannot be impersonated, and a standing rule that account details are verified by phone before any transfer.
We share a building network with the shops downstairs. Is that a risk?
It can be. Separate businesses should not sit on one flat network, and segmenting it so neither can reach the other is straightforward.
Will security training work for a multilingual team?
It works much better when that is planned for, rather than assuming an English-language video has been understood by everybody.