Managed IT Services

Security Focused Managed IT Services on the Gold Coast

Proactive managed IT services for businesses across the Gold Coast, Brisbane, and South East Queensland. ISO 27001 certified, Microsoft Partner, and built around the security and compliance realities our clients work under.

ISO 27001 Certified
ACSC Essential 8 Aligned
Microsoft Partner
Established 1999
More Than Help Desk Support

The Difference Between Working and Working Around Things

Most businesses have lived through the alternative. Break-fix support where IT becomes a series of small crises. The internal IT person who left and took the knowledge with them. The vendor who keeps the lights on but never looks at what is coming next. We are none of those things. We are a partner who knows your environment, monitors it constantly, fixes things before you notice, and tells you in plain English when something needs your attention.

Proactive, Not Reactive

We monitor your systems around the clock, identify issues before they become outages, and fix things while you sleep. By the time most of our clients hear about a problem, we have already resolved it.

Security First

Security is not a separate service. It is built into how we deliver managed IT. ISO 27001 alignment, ACSC Essential 8, multi-factor authentication, and Microsoft 365 hardening come as standard.

Strategic, Not Just Tactical

We help you plan what comes next: refresh cycles, security maturity, cloud migration, AI adoption, and the IT decisions that affect how your business operates in 12 and 24 months.

Local, Responsive, Accountable

Based on the Gold Coast, onsite across SEQ when you need us. When something matters, you talk to a named person on our team.

The Service Stack

What You Get When You Hand Us Your IT

Managed IT covers a lot of ground. Here is what we cover as standard, regardless of plan.

24/7 Monitoring and Alerting

Round-the-clock monitoring of servers, networks, endpoints, and critical applications. Issues triaged automatically. Alerts that matter reach a human on our team.

Help Desk Support

Responsive technical support from our Gold Coast based team. Remote first for speed, onsite across Gold Coast, Brisbane, and Tweed Heads when hands-on is needed.

Microsoft 365 and Cloud Management

Tenant administration, licensing optimisation, security hardening, user lifecycle management, and ongoing support for Microsoft 365 and Azure environments.

Server and Endpoint Management

Server administration, patching, performance tuning, and capacity planning. Endpoint management for laptops, desktops, and mobile devices, including Intune deployment and policy enforcement.

Backup and Recovery

Immutable, ransomware-resilient backups of your critical data. Tested recovery, not assumed recovery. Australian data sovereignty across all backup locations.

Proactive Maintenance and Patching

Regular updates, security patches, firmware maintenance, and infrastructure health checks. The unglamorous work that keeps everything running smoothly.

Our Approach

Three Things That Make Our Managed IT Different

Managed IT is a crowded category. The work itself is similar across providers. The difference is in how it is delivered and what sits underneath it.

1

Built on a Real Information Security Standard

We hold ISO/IEC 27001 certification, audited annually by an independent certification body. The same controls, processes, and governance we recommend to our clients, we already operate under ourselves. Most managed IT providers cannot say that.

2

Pentest-Tested in the Real World

Our client environments are regularly tested by independent, third-party penetration testers as part of their own compliance programs. The technical configurations we design, deploy, and maintain have passed those tests. When someone is specifically paid to find holes in our work, they find fewer of them.

3

Designed for Compliance-Driven Industries

Our clients work in healthcare, aged care, legal, accounting, insolvency, and other regulated environments. We do not deliver generic managed IT and hope it fits. We design service delivery around the standards each client is measured against.

Plans That Match Your Business

Three Levels of Managed IT Support

We offer three plans designed for different stages of business size and compliance maturity. Every plan is built on the same foundation: ISO 27001 aligned service delivery, security focused by default, and local accountability.

Essential

For small teams who need reliable IT without heavy compliance obligations.

  • Remote help desk support during business hours
  • Standard system monitoring and alerting
  • Monthly maintenance, updates, and patching
  • Microsoft 365 user and licensing management
  • Backup and recovery for critical data
  • Email support response within agreed hours
  • Security essentials
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Professional

For growing businesses that need proactive IT and core security in place.

  • Everything in Essential
  • 24/7 monitoring and alerting
  • 24/7 SOC (Security Operations Centre) monitoring
  • Multi-factor authentication across all systems
  • Phishing protection and email security
  • Microsoft 365 with security baseline configured
  • Quarterly account check-in and IT planning session
  • Priority response with named technical contacts
  • Onsite support across Gold Coast, Brisbane, and Tweed Heads when needed
  • Onboarding and offboarding workflows
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Enterprise

For compliance-driven organisations that need IT delivered against real standards.

Healthcare, aged care, professional services, and any business where audit-readiness is not optional.

  • Everything in Professional
  • ISO 27001 alignment support and policy implementation
  • ACSC Essential 8 implementation roadmap and ongoing maintenance
  • Microsoft 365 deployed with the full security stack (Defender, Intune, Purview, conditional access, and sensitivity labels)
  • SIEM deployment and ongoing management
  • Periodic security reviews with summary findings
  • IT planning sessions to keep your roadmap current
  • Incident response planning aligned to the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme
  • Pentest-ready configurations
  • Access to ISO 27001 Lead Implementer trained staff
  • Extended hours of support
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Scheduled monthly onsite visit included
  • Additional onsite across Gold Coast and SEQ when required
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Pricing scales with the size of your team and the complexity of your environment. Talk to us for a quote that reflects your actual needs.

GCPHN grew from around seven staff to more than seventy during our partnership.

CSG has successfully scaled its services and capabilities alongside our growth, ensuring our technology environment, infrastructure, security controls, and support services evolved to meet increasingly complex operational and governance requirements.
Dr Alyson RossExecutive Director of Digital Insights and PerformanceGold Coast Primary Health Network
Specialist Experience

Managed IT for the Industries We Know

Most of our work is concentrated in industries where compliance, confidentiality, and uptime all matter at the same time.

Not in one of these industries? We work with plenty of organisations who are not. The compliance lens just makes us sharper at the work everyone needs done.

Switching IT Providers

Moving to Us Is Easier Than Most People Expect

We have done this more times than we can count. The process is deliberately boring. We review what you have, plan the switch, and take over the running of it. Most clients are live on our support inside three to four weeks.

01

Review

We assess your current IT environment, identify the risks, and document what needs to change. You get a clear report before any work begins.

02

Plan

We schedule the transition around your business, not ours. Existing systems keep running while we prepare. No weekend scrambles, no downtime.

03

Take Over

We move support, monitoring, and security onto our systems. You keep working. Nothing breaks. Nothing leaks.

Gold Coast and SEQ organisations have trusted us with their IT since 1999.

Local Support

Managed IT Services Across the Gold Coast

We are a Gold Coast based team, so your support comes from people who know the region and can be at your office when it matters. Most issues are fixed remotely for speed, and our technicians come onsite when hands-on work is needed.

Where We Work

Managed IT and onsite support for businesses right across the Gold Coast, including:

  • Southport
  • Surfers Paradise
  • Broadbeach
  • Robina
  • Burleigh Heads
  • Nerang
  • Coolangatta

We also support businesses in Brisbane and Tweed Heads.

A Gold Coast Client Story

We have been Gold Coast Primary Health Network's managed IT partner for more than a decade, supporting their growth from 7 to more than 70 staff and their ISO 27001 certification and Essential Eight Maturity Level 1.

Read the GCPHN case study
Why Choose Us

What You Get From Computer Services Group

  • ISO 27001 Information Security Certified, audited annually
  • ACSC Essential 8 aligned service delivery
  • Microsoft Partner and authorised Cloud Solution Provider
  • ISO 27001 Lead Implementer trained and (ISC)² Certified in Cybersecurity on staff
  • Pentest-tested configurations across client environments
  • Local Gold Coast team with onsite support across SEQ
  • Privacy Act and Australian Privacy Principles aligned
  • Specialist experience in healthcare, aged care, professional services, and other compliance-driven industries
  • 27 years supporting Gold Coast and SEQ organisations
They have provided far more than traditional ICT managed services, acting as a trusted advisor that understands our business, supports our strategic objectives, and proactively contributes to our organisational success.
Dr Alyson RossExecutive Director of Digital Insights and PerformanceGold Coast Primary Health Network

Ready for Managed IT That Holds Up Under Scrutiny?

Book a free 30 minute IT review. We will walk through your current environment, flag the risks, and show you where the quickest wins are. No obligation, no sales pitch.

Frequently asked questions

How much does managed IT cost on the Gold Coast?
Managed IT is usually billed as a fixed monthly fee per user, so your costs stay predictable as your team grows. The exact figure depends on how many staff and devices you have, the software you run, and the security and compliance level you need. We give you a fixed quote after a free IT review, with no lock-in surprises.
What is included in managed IT services?
Every plan includes monitoring and alerting, help desk support, Microsoft 365 and cloud management, server and endpoint management, backup and recovery, and proactive maintenance and patching. Higher plans add 24/7 Security Operations Centre monitoring, Essential Eight and ISO 27001 support, and scheduled onsite visits.
How long does it take to switch managed IT providers?
Most clients are live on our support within three to four weeks. We review your current environment, plan the switch around your business, then take over support, monitoring and security while your existing systems keep running.
Which Gold Coast MSPs are ISO 27001 certified?
Computer Services Group is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified under certificate number 8562-4315-01, which is still uncommon among Gold Coast MSPs. It means our own security is independently audited every year against the same standard we help clients meet.
How quickly do you respond to IT issues?
Support runs during business hours, Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm AEST, with priority given to anything that stops your team working. Our monitoring and threat detection run 24/7, so many issues are caught and resolved before you notice them. Urgent problems are triaged first rather than sitting in a queue.
Do you provide onsite IT support across South East Queensland?
Yes. We are a Gold Coast based team and provide onsite support across the Gold Coast, Brisbane, and Tweed Heads when a problem cannot be fixed remotely. Most day-to-day issues are handled remotely for speed, with technicians on the ground when hands-on work is needed.
Can you work alongside our existing internal IT person?
Yes. We often co-manage IT with an internal person or team, taking on monitoring, security, and after-hours cover while they focus on day-to-day support and business projects. We adapt to your setup rather than forcing a full outsource.
What makes managed IT different from break-fix support?
Managed IT is proactive, so we monitor, patch, and secure your systems continuously instead of waiting for something to break. That means fewer outages, predictable monthly costs, and a partner who already knows your environment. Break-fix only reacts after the damage is done.