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Writing from the Interconnekt team on managed IT, cybersecurity, compliance, and the practical realities of running IT for Australian SMBs. No thought-leadership fluff, no sales-funnel content - just the stuff we’d want to read ourselves.
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Auditors and insurers increasingly want both CIS Controls v8 and the Essential Eight. They overlap, but they aren't the same shape. Here's the control-by-control mapping we use - and the four CIS controls the Essential Eight quietly leaves you exposed on.
The per-seat sticker price is the easy number. The real cost is the prerequisites and the readiness work - and the real question is which of your people it actually pays off for.
Slow Wi-Fi gets blamed on laptops, broadband, and bad luck long before anyone blames the network. Here's how to tell when the network is the problem, and what a network worth keeping looks like in 2026.
Azure is sold like an infinite menu, which is exactly why SMB cloud bills get out of hand. Here's the sensible footprint most small businesses actually need - and the enterprise sprawl you can safely ignore.
The Essential Eight has three maturity levels. Most SMBs reach for ML2 or ML3 because the number looks better. Here's why ML1, done honestly, beats ML2 done badly - and what the gap actually costs.
Copilot is showing up in every Microsoft 365 conversation right now. Here is what the AI assistant actually does day-to-day, where it earns its keep, and what to sort out before you roll it out to your team.
The argument for transparent pricing, the objections we get, and the customers it brings - unfiltered. A post we've been threatening to write for two years.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is the most expensive per-user add-on a business will add this year. Most rollouts fail on the prep, not the technology. Here's the sequence we use to make sure it actually pays for itself.
Every MDR vendor's site says the same things. Here's how to actually tell them apart: the difference between an alert and a response, who's watching at 2am, and the questions that separate real 24/7 detection from a dashboard you'll never open.
We've deployed both in meaningful quantities. Here's the honest head-to-head - licensing, reliability, and what breaks when you're trying to sleep.
If your MSP's contract doesn't answer these three questions inside two minutes of reading, it's the contract - not the service - that's going to hurt you.
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