AWD help desk engineers supporting Australian businesses from Melbourne

Managed IT that keeps Australian businesses running.

Managed IT, cyber security and cloud for Melbourne and Sydney businesses. Almost every engineer onshore and in-house since 1997.

We are a Melbourne-based managed IT provider with skilled engineers at your service, anytime, anywhere. Your environment is monitored, patched and supported around the clock by our own team, almost every engineer onshore and in-house since 1997, and ISO 27001 certified.

ISO 27001 certified Independently audited
Almost all onshore & in-house Melbourne & Sydney teams
Same day response guarantee Real engineers, no scripts
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Sound familiar?

Do any of the statements below ring true for your organisation?

None of this is a crisis on its own. Together, they are what stops a business getting through an ordinary week.

01

IT knowledge lives in one person’s head

If they are away or move on, the business is exposed.

One resignation and you’re locked out of your own business.

Nobody else knows the admin passwords, where the backups sit, or what you’re paying for. Rebuilding that picture takes weeks, and you pay someone to relearn a network you already own.

02

You could not pass a cyber audit today

No clear view of controls, patching or who has access.

The insurance claim gets declined and the tender goes to someone else.

Insurers want proof of MFA, patching and tested backups before they pay. Large customers ask the same questions before they sign. No evidence, no cover, no contract.

03

Your people are one click away from a phishing attack

Without regular training, one convincing email is all it takes.

A supplier invoice arrives with new bank details. Someone pays it.

This is the most common loss we see in Australian SMBs. The money moves within hours, it is rarely recovered, and if the controls weren’t in place the insurer may not cover it.

04

Support means waiting in a queue

Tickets sit while your team loses billable hours.

Ten staff idle for two hours is a day’s wages spent on nothing.

It’s almost never one big outage. It’s a few hours a week, every week. Invisible on the P&L, obvious in what didn’t get done.

05

There is no real recovery plan

Backups exist, but no one has tested a restore.

Having backups isn’t the question. How fast you’re invoicing again is.

An untested restore is a guess. The gap between “the data exists” and “we’re trading” is where a business loses days of revenue, and most owners find out how wide it is on the worst possible day.

06

You have outgrown your provider

What worked at 10 people is breaking at 50.

You’re now chasing your IT provider instead of running your business.

Work that took a day takes a week. Nobody owns the projects. You’ve become the escalation path, and that time comes out of the job only you can do.

Twenty nine years, and audited on it every year. We have been keeping Australian businesses running since 1997, and we hold the same ISO 27001 certification we help our clients reach. Not a claim, a certificate.

What does AWD do?

We run IT for Australian businesses between 20 and 300 staff. Managed IT, cyber security, cloud and Microsoft 365, compliance, disaster recovery and business phone systems, all from one team that is accountable for the lot.

Where we you based?

Melbourne, with a Sydney office and clients across the country. Almost every engineer is onshore and in-house.

How long have you been doing this?

Since 1997. Twenty-nine years, most of it with the same clients.

Are we certified?

AWD services are ISO 27001 certified and independently audited, and we are a Microsoft Solutions Partner.


Managed IT Services

IT should be the thing your organisation never has to think about.

One accountable team manages everything from your smartphone to the cloud, watching your environment around the clock and fixing most issues before your team feels them.

01

Solved before you feel it

We catch and fix most issues before your team notices, so a bad morning never turns into a lost day.

02

Cover that never clocks off

Your environment is watched around the clock and issues resolved fast, so a quiet night stays quiet.

03

Senior expertise, no headcount

A full bench of certified engineers on tap, for far less than the cost of one in-house hire.

04

Local people who answer

A Melbourne team you can reach, almost all onshore and in-house, not an offshore queue and a script.

One operating model, end to end

Monitor & maintain

  • 24/7 system and network monitoring
  • Patch management
  • Server and infrastructure support
  • Auditing and performance tuning

Secure & comply

  • Advanced security services and EDR
  • End user protection and MFA
  • Security patching and reviews
  • Regulatory compliance support

Support & manage

  • Helpdesk and user support
  • Microsoft 365 support
  • Application and device management
  • Hardware and software procurement

Recover & continue

  • Disaster recovery and continuity
  • Parallel cloud failover server
  • Backups with config snapshots
  • Ongoing strategy and consultation

IT Maturity Diagnostic

How engineered is your IT, really?

Five questions, under two minutes. The same framework we use on every paid audit. You get a maturity score across six dimensions, on screen, straight away.

Security-first

Information and data security is our #1 priority.

We safeguard customer data against unauthorised destruction, disclosure or modification. AWD services are certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and independently audited. Worth knowing: the transition deadline from the 2013 edition passed on 31 October 2025, so any supplier still showing you a 2013 certificate is showing you one that has expired or been withdrawn.

AWD ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification

Proof, not promises

Outcomes we have engineered.

Work with us
29 years
Keeping Australian businesses running since 1997
180+
Australian businesses supported
ISO 27001
Certified and independently audited every year
1M+
Vulnerabilities checked on every scan

Trusted by Australian businesses

AHA
Glencore
Artcraft
Matchbox
Melbourne on the Move
OnAlert
Trend GOSA
Financial & Professional Services Audit-ready in one quarter

From exposed to audit-ready security posture.

A regulated firm needed to pass cyber insurance and client due-diligence reviews without a heavy internal lift. We led with a security audit, closed the gaps, and documented the controls. They reached Essential Eight Maturity Level 2 with ISO 27001 aligned controls.

Read the approach
Education & Corporate HQ

From technical debt to full visibility

Sluggish performance, fragmented data and no view of staff hardware.

40%
fewer internal support requests
100%
hardware lifecycle visibility
Manufacturing & Logistics

Site connectivity built to stay up

A multi-site operation needed resilient connectivity and a recovery plan.

Zero
connectivity failures post-build
6-12 hr
recovery time objective
Cyber Insurance Audit

Renewal passed without a scramble

An SME facing a hard insurance renewal and an uncertain ransomware position.

MFA
rolled out across all users
EDR
on every endpoint
Very professional, delivering exceptional service along with sound industry knowledge and friendly interactions and updates.
Josh Holmes, Client
Best decision ever made committing to this company. Nothing is too hard and questions always answered.
Cat Godden, Client
We needed a security-focused, ISO 27001 compliant setup. Others said it was too complex. AWD just got it done, a hassle-free implementation and great ongoing support.
David Weber, Co-Founder and COO

Super Intelligence by Athena, a project of AWD / Operational intelligence

Your business data, working for you.

Most teams have their knowledge spread across 8 to 12 systems, and nobody has the full picture. Super Intelligence by Athena connects to what you already use, learns your language, and answers in plain English.

awdai.com.au, connected to ERP, Microsoft 365, accounting and CRM
awdai.com.au, connected to ERP, Microsoft 365, accounting and CRM
Draft a friendly update for Halton & Co. Their delivery is running late, so give a realistic new date.

Subject: Update on your order
Hi Halton team, your order has been held up with our supplier, so we will not meet the original 6 June date. The revised delivery date is now 24 June. We will keep tracking it and update you the moment it ships.

Generated in 7.4s from ERP and email data

01

Connect

Read-only keys into your core systems. Most businesses are live within a week.

02

Configure

We build your first queries, reports and alerts with you.

03

Operate

Ask anything in plain English. Reports and alerts run themselves.

Dedicated sovereign Azure instance. Your data stays in Australia, with ISO 27001 coverage on every build.

Start here

Book a free consultation.

A no-obligation conversation about your infrastructure, security posture and operational risk. If it makes sense, we scope a paid IT audit and build a remediation roadmap from there. Pricing is built around your environment, not a fixed package.

What a consultation covers

  • A plain-English read on your infrastructure and risk
  • Where you sit against ISO 27001 and Essential Eight
  • A prioritised remediation roadmap if you want one
  • No lock-in, and a response within one business day

Melbourne

Suite 210, 134-136 Cambridge Street, Collingwood VIC 3066

Sydney

Ground Floor, 111 Flinders Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010

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