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Is AI worth it for small business? Palantir’s CEO just reopened the question

Palantir CEO Alex Karp called AI pricing a wealth tax and told businesses to keep control of their data. Here is what his rant means for Australian small businesses, and how to...

Azure vs AWS vs Google Cloud for AI in Australia (2026)

Every Australian business deploying AI in 2026 hits the same fork in the road: where should the AI actually run..

Five Eyes warns Australian businesses: AI cyber attacks are months away

The Five Eyes alliance issued a rare public warning that AI cyber attacks are months away, and the most exposed are SMBs that have under-invested. Here are the five actions they...

FortiBleed: what the Fortinet firewall leak means for your business

FortiBleed is not a bug you can patch your way out of. It is a credential problem, and the organisations that got caught nearly all made the same small set of avoidable...

Best IT support companies in Sydney: how to choose in 2026

Over a thousand IT companies operate in Sydney. This guide is a straight framework for evaluating any IT support company: what to look for, what to avoid, and how to compare...

An AI agent deleted a database in nine seconds. Don’t ban it, govern it

An AI agent deleted a company’s production database and every backup in nine seconds. The model was not the villain, the missing governance was. Here is what it teaches...

What does a vCIO do? Your AI strategy needs one, not a chatbot

The day-to-day of IT support keeps the lights on. A vCIO works a level above that, on the questions that decide whether your technology helps or holds you back…

IT asset lifecycle management: stop buying technology by accident

When hardware is bought reactively, three things go wrong. Costs become lumpy and unpredictable, because everything seems to fail at once.

Penetration testing vs vulnerability scanning: what is the difference?

The confusion is understandable. Both look for weaknesses. But one is an automated list of possible problems, and the other is a skilled human, or increasingly a skilled human...

AI phishing attacks: how to train your staff in 2026

The old advice was to teach staff to spot typos, dodgy sender addresses, and too-good-to-be-true offers. That advice is now close to useless…

Data classification for Copilot: making Microsoft 365 AI-safe

Before you let an AI assistant loose on your business, there is one question that matters more than which model you chose: does your AI know which of your files are confidential?

Data governance for small business: why your AI risk is really a permissions problem

Most small businesses we talk to think they have an AI problem. They have a data governance problem wearing an AI costume…