The North Korean Threat Actor Now Targeting macOS Fleets — and Why Your Intune for Mac Baseline Matters

by CPI Staff | Apr 22, 2026 | Blog, Cybersecurity, Essential 8, Microsoft 365 Security, Microsoft defender XDR, Microsoft Intune

For years, Australian IT leaders treated macOS as the “quiet corner” of the fleet. A handful of executives and designers on MacBooks, a sprinkle of engineers, and a general assumption that Apple’s built-in protections were enough. That assumption no...

Cloud Cost Is Back on Every CIO’s Agenda. Microsoft’s New Guidance Is a Useful Starting Point — But Not the Finish Line

by CPI Staff | Apr 22, 2026 | Azure, Blog, Cloud Cost & FinOps

Cloud cost has returned to the top of the CIO priority list. Budgets are tighter, AI workloads are expensive, and boards are asking harder questions about return on cloud investment than they were two years ago. Microsoft has been steadily refreshing its cost...

The Vercel Breach Shows Why Third-Party Hosting Belongs in Your Next Azure Well-Architected Review

by CPI Staff | Apr 22, 2026 | Azure, Azure Security, Blog, Cybersecurity, Software Supply Chain Security

In this blog post, The Vercel Breach Shows Why Third-Party Hosting Belongs in Your Next Azure Well-Architected Review, we look at why platforms like Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, and Railway can no longer sit quietly outside the governance perimeter of an...

ACSC’s New Guidance on Frontier Models Puts AI Risk Squarely on the CISO Agenda for Australian Organisations

by CPI Staff | Apr 21, 2026 | AI, Blog, Cybersecurity

For many organisations, AI risk has been treated as a future governance issue. The Australian Cyber Security Centre has just made that position harder to defend. In its 9 April 2026 guidance, Frontier models and their impact on cyber security, ACSC draws a direct line...

Microsoft’s Emergency Windows Server Updates Are a Reminder Mid-Market Patch Validation Cannot Be Optional

by CPI Staff | Apr 21, 2026 | Blog, Cybersecurity, Essential 8, Windows Server

Patch deployment failures are not supposed to become operational incidents. But that is exactly what many IT teams were forced to confront after Microsoft’s April 2026 Windows Server security updates triggered installation failures on some Windows Server 2025...