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Your Microsoft 365 Audit Logs Are Harder to Use Than You Think
Microsoft 365 audit logs retain 180 days of activity — but the compliance portal wasn’t built for serious investigations. Rudie de Vries explains the retention ceiling, bulk extraction via PowerShell, and what happens when the clock runs out mid-investigation.
The MSP That Decided to Build Its Own Operating System
Most MSPs buy their operations stack. Si Futures built its own. Meridian is the proprietary framework governing inSight, NOC Brain, SiDekick, SiSmic, SiNapse, and SiNoria Studio — tools built from real engineering frustrations to solve problems commercial platforms address inadequately.
The Microsoft Change That Will Break Your Office 365 Backups
Microsoft is retiring Exchange Web Services in October 2026 — a backend change that will silently break backup tools, archiving solutions, and integrations still relying on EWS. Find out if your Microsoft 365 backup is at risk and what to do before the deadline.
Your Business Domain: Who Actually Owns It?
Domain security sits in a gap most businesses have never audited. If a contractor registered your domain years ago and the relationship has since ended, you may not control one of the most critical pieces of your infrastructure — including all your business email. This piece explains what that exposure looks like and what to check before it becomes a crisis.
When a Personal Device Becomes a Business Risk
A personal device signs into a work email account. That device is already compromised. Before the morning is out, spoofed payment requests have gone to suppliers with changed banking details. This piece examines how personal device security sits outside the perimeter most SMEs actively protect — and what rapid account compromise detection looks like when it works.
What 300 Milliseconds Costs Your Remote Workforce
Remote workforce latency is rarely the first explanation when productivity feels sluggish. This piece examines what 300 milliseconds per click costs a distributed team in a terminal services environment — and how moving the infrastructure closer to the people using it changes everything.
Why VPN and MFA Are No Longer Enough
VPN and MFA are good controls — but attackers have adapted their techniques to work around both. Si Futures explains adversary-in-the-middle attacks, MFA fatigue, and why managed threat detection is the next essential layer for any serious security posture.
When the Data Centre Has a Bad Night: What Happens in the Hours Nobody Sees
Most of the work that keeps a business running is invisible — and that is never more apparent than when something goes wrong at 2am. Si Futures shares what really happened over one weekend when a data centre power event took down a financial services client’s authentication infrastructure, and what it reveals about the difference between embedded managed IT expertise and transactional IT support.