Si Futures Senior Engineer Rudie de Vries explains how a single engineer’s manual account activity investigation process was turned into a self-service Microsoft 365 activity monitoring tool — cutting a security incident timeline task from hours to minutes for the whole team.
Blog Posts
Why We Became a 1Password Reseller: Security as a Growth Engine
Password management remains one of the most overlooked weak points in SME Cyber Security — and...
What Cyber Essentials Taught Us About Security Discipline
A Sunday-night assessor query forced a full resubmission of our Cyber Essentials certification. This piece looks at why rebuilding the evidence properly, rather than patching it, was the only real option.
What To Do When Your Email Account Is Compromised
A quiet email account compromise can run for weeks before anyone notices. This piece walks through the practical, ordered steps that limit damage and stop attackers finding a second way back in.
Why Good Patch Management Is About More Than Installing Updates
Why Good Patch Management Is About More Than Installing Updates Managed Cybersecurity • IT Support...
We Used to Trust Our Gut on LTE. Now We Have the Data.
A SIM that is technically online isn’t necessarily reliable. Here’s how deploying real-time LTE signal telemetry — signal-to-noise ratio, RSSI, and trend data — is changing how we manage backup and primary LTE connectivity for client sites.
What Is the Team Working On Right Now?
The honest answer to “what is the team working on?” used to depend on who you asked. Here’s how structured operational visibility — connecting projects, tickets, and alerts in real time — changes what a managed IT team can actually deliver.
When Your Vendor Upgrades on Their Schedule, Not Yours
Cloud-hosted security vendors upgrade on their own schedule — your configuration doesn’t always survive the transition. A Fortinet EMS incident this week shows what proactive managed security monitoring looks like when it matters most.
Four Days to Learn That AI Tools Aren’t Interchangeable
Four days rebuilding a content workflow with the wrong AI tool taught us something every business leader should know: AI tools are not generic. Matching tool to task is the same discipline you apply to any technology investment.
