by CPI Staff | Apr 30, 2026 | Blog, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Entra ID, Essential 8, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Security
Every Microsoft 365 tenant tells a story. Emails flowing, Teams meetings running, SharePoint humming along. From the outside, everything looks operational. But operational is not the same as secure — and the gap between those two things is where breaches happen. When...
by CPI Staff | Apr 22, 2026 | Blog, Cybersecurity, Email Security, Essential 8, Microsoft 365 Security, Microsoft Teams
A new wave of social engineering attacks is targeting Australian organisations through a channel most IT teams still treat as safe: Microsoft Teams. Threat actors are impersonating internal IT helpdesk staff, reaching users via external Teams chats and federated...
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...
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...
by CPI Staff | Apr 18, 2026 | AI Governance & Risk Management, Blog, Essential 8, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Security, Microsoft Purview
Microsoft’s Deep Research in Copilot for Microsoft 365 has already reshaped how knowledge workers produce long-form analysis. Teams that used to spend days pulling together market scans, risk reviews, and competitive briefings now have a drafting partner that...
by CPI Staff | Apr 18, 2026 | AI Coding Agents, AI Governance & Risk Management, Blog, Codex, Essential 8, OpenAI
OpenAI Codex has quietly crossed a line that most CIOs haven’t fully registered yet. It’s no longer a code completion tool. It’s a cloud-based software engineering agent that can read a repository, run tests, fix bugs, write features, and open pull...
