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Your cyber insurance renewal is now a security audit
The proposal form used to be three questions. It is now a controls checklist, the answers are warranties, and the price is set by what you can evidence.
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Build or buy, and the honest test between them
We write software, so treat our answer with suspicion. The test we use is whether the process is a genuine competitive difference or just the way you happen to do something ordinary.
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Before you buy AI, fix the data it would have to read
Most disappointing AI pilots are not model failures. The assistant was pointed at an environment where the answer genuinely was not available, and it did the only thing it could.
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Buying connectivity for the places the network does not reach
A wharf, a packhouse on a rural road, a site that will exist for nine months. The right answer is rarely the fastest link available, and it is almost never one link.
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When the stock figure depends on which screen you are looking at
Most businesses running several systems do not have a data problem so much as a disagreement problem. Everyone has quietly learned which screen to trust, and that knowledge is not written down anywhere.
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The Odoo data migration nobody budgets for
Moving the data is a week of work. Deciding what your data actually means, and fixing twelve years of accumulated inconsistency, is the project.
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Seasonal staff, and the accounts that never leave
A business that triples its headcount for eight weeks has an onboarding problem in March and an access problem for the following five years.
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Wi-Fi in a building made of metal, water and moving forklifts
Office wireless design does not survive a packhouse, a coolstore or a wharf shed. Most industrial Wi-Fi problems are a survey that was never done.
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Shadow IT is a symptom, not a crime
When a department buys its own software on a credit card, the interesting question is not who broke the rules. It is what took so long through the front door.
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The invoice that was not: how business email compromise actually works
No malware, no dramatic breach. Someone reads your mail for a few weeks, waits for a real invoice, and changes one line. It is the most common way New Zealand businesses lose money to attack.
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The network your plant runs on is not your office network
Operational technology and business IT end up sharing one flat network far more often than anyone intends. Here is what that actually costs, and what separating them involves.
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A backup you have not restored is a hope, not a plan
Backup jobs report success for years while quietly protecting the wrong things. The only test that counts is putting the data back, timed, in front of someone who cares how long it took.
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