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Sleeper Agent AI?

A long time ago there was once an incident where an application just stopped working. It was quite serious so all hands on deck to find the source of the problem. No changes, no releases, it had stopped working (I hate those ones). Long story short - old code had

Where and how you work?

Maybe the serendipitous meetings around the coffee machine just haven’t kicked in yet? Joking aside, click bait headline but this is the key part for me: “Lovich…says the report doesn’t yet show that flexible policies cause higher revenue growth. Rather, she says flexible policies are one likely

Get the basics right

Doing the basics correctly and consistently is not ‘Sexy IT’. It’s not cutting edge or headline grabbing. In fact, if you don’t communicate ‘Why?’ correctly, it can be seen to be an utter hassle. But if you don’t get the basics right, it can also grab headlines.

Where is your data?

I’ve had a few conversations this past week about what may be trends next year. One of them obviously is 365 Copilot. So the next question to ask is “How do we make that work, what do we need to do first?”. Never be a blocker to the business,

SMB Threat Report

This is an interesting and worthwhile report covering threat insights for the SMB space (you need to register for the report). Eye opening takeaway is 56% of incidents are malware free and 65% use your own RMM software (remote monitoring and management). It’d be good to see vendors understand

Cost of CoPilot

It’s the weekend. But I needed to sit and read after raking up far too many leaves from the garden today. So, many, leaves. This is an interesting article as the subject has come up a couple of times in conversation recently. Microsoft 365 Copilot goes GA with 300

The Tech Industry is going nuts

I’m back from the south of France. The twenty degree temperature difference is…a bit brutal. It made me think about sustainability and the environment. KLM at least lets you do additional carbon offsets (at a cost). Reading through the following topics made me a little ‘frowny’: Microsoft is

Survivorship Bias

This is a really good post from Microsoft. Transparency is becoming more important - for all companies. Results of Major Technical Investigations for Storm-0558 Key Acquisition | MSRC Blog | Microsoft Security Response CenterResults of Major Technical Investigations for Storm-0558 Key AcquisitionMicrosoft Security Response CenterMSRC My thoughts? Not on this but to