South African businesses often cobble together their IT management from free tools, cheap tools, and whatever came with the server. Monitoring from one vendor, patching from another, helpdesk from a third, and nothing talks to anything else. It works until it does not, and the IT person spends more time switching between dashboards than actually…
Microsoft 365 is the backbone of most South African businesses. Email, files, teams, identity. But the default configuration is built for convenience, not security. We have yet to audit an M365 tenant where everything was properly locked down. Conditional access This is the first thing we look at. Conditional access policies are the rules that…
Your office is a coffee shop. Better chairs, worse coffee, and a printer someone actually knows how to use. But functionally, it is a place where people sit and connect to the internet. Everything else, the applications, the data, the collaboration, lives somewhere else. Most businesses have not caught up to this reality. They are…
Every IT manager running a multi-site operation in South Africa has had this conversation. MPLS is expensive. SD-WAN promises to replace it with internet-based connectivity at a fraction of the cost. The sales pitch sounds good. The reality is more complicated. What MPLS actually gives you MPLS is a private network. Your traffic does not…