What a day.

Today the nation's largest retail carrier is making headlines for all - the wrong - reasons.

If you're not interested in clicking through the linked articles above let me summarise things:

• In the early hours of this morning Telstra suffered a nationwide network outage
• B...

I've written the start to this post about 5 or 6 times now. There's actually so much I want to say my head feels like it's buzzing. Instead I want to go back to the our blog's tagline:

We spend our weekends thinking about security and resilience for small and medium business so you don't have to...

This can't be real. This can't be real. That was my first thought when I woke up this morning and popped open the news with my morning coffee. Surely our last blog post cooked my brain and this is just a movie... but there it was; thick, black smoke billowing from the Viva Energy refinery in Geelo...

If 2026 has shown us anything, it's that every time something sounds like the plot of a "direct to DVD" movie (or I guess direct to streaming now) - it could be reality. Today's plot revolves around a date, the 1st of March 2027. It's a date that has cybersecurity folk (such as myself) nervously wat...

A small note before we get started today. This isn't the normal carefully worded blog post. Today it's a passionate post fueled by coffee and deep concern. If you're running a small to medium business, this post is for you. If you're running a small to medium business and have been putting off hardw...

I wasn't planning to come back to this topic so soon, but I guess lots of unexpected things are happening in the world today.

I want to start this topic by acknowledging our previous post on AI as a research tool. I'm acknowledging it because I'm also sharing this document generated by AI. It'...

I feel like I’ve seen this movie somewhere before.

Just a few years ago, the idea of an entire workforce upending their commute and setting up at the kitchen table seemed like the plot of a sci-fi thriller (thriller? fizzer?). Then, almost overnight, it became our reality. We learned to navigate Z...

This post is going to be a doozy. I started out considering our core focus - I was writing a blog on the security implications of AI use in small to medium businesses. That alone is quite a serious topic, but the more I wrote, the more I found I needed to write. So today, we’re branching beyond our...

It’s official: the global hardware market has hit a bit of a snag, and it’s being driven by what industry experts are calling the "AI Tax."

I’ve spent the last few days digging into the data, and the landscape for 2026 is looking... well, gloomy. Between Western Digital and Seagate already selli...

It has been a few months since the 14 October 2025 deadline passed, and the dust is finally starting to settle on the Windows 10 End-of-Life (EoL) transition. As a keen observer watching it all happen, the lead-up to that date felt like a slow-motion car crash: do homes and small businesses fork out...