Tech Talk

Six weeks after a Northland firm's mailbox was hacked, their IT provider had cleaned up but added no protection. What a proper clean-up covers and what stops the next one.

Copilot Cowork bills by usage. Why IT Live puts a spending cap on every client's Copilot credits, and what happened when one client nearly ran out.

A Northland CEO ran every customer contract through free ChatGPT. Why the free version is a data risk for businesses and what to use instead.

Most businesses use about a third of the Microsoft 365 licence they already pay for. The five features usually sitting unused in Business Premium, where the money gets wasted on duplicate antivirus, and the three questions to ask whoever manages your tenant.

You don't need your password stolen to get hacked. The session cookie is the gap - and the real question isn't whether you have MFA, it's who is watching if someone slips past it.

A Northland builder sending $200,000 invoices, with email running in an old program on his computer and backups done by hand. He'd never had a breach, so he trusted it. That isn't a security plan.

The questions insurers ask in 2026 aren't a formality anymore - they decide whether you're insurable at all. Here's what they now expect before they'll cover you.

The first thing a good IT company does at a new client is not fix anything. It goes looking. What ...

A Northland business owner asked how he could actually prove his business was secure. So we ran him through SMB1001 Gold - 27 controls, one at a time. Here is what it checks, including the AI policy most owners have never thought about.

A virus is loud. Someone quietly reading your email for a fortnight is not - and that is the scam emptying bank accounts in Northland. Here is how it works and the simple rule that stops it.