What a day.

Today the nation's largest retail carrier is making headlines for all - the wrong - reasons.

If you're not interested in clicking through the linked articles above let me summarise things:

• In the early hours of this morning Telstra suffered a nationwide network outage
• B...

I feel it was only yesterday that I sat down with a coffee and a laptop and decided to talk about backup Internet in a business context. Turns out it was the 26th of December - Yep Boxing Day - because when you're running a small business there's never really a time to stop. If you're dependent...

This story takes us back to a real world scenario. A client of ours who we have featured before has finally accepted that sync is not backup.

Way back at the start of my IT career, before I even knew that corporate cybersecurity was a thing I had the responsibility of building a small business'...

I've written the start to this post about 5 or 6 times now. There's actually so much I want to say my head feels like it's buzzing. Instead I want to go back to the our blog's tagline:

We spend our weekends thinking about security and resilience for small and medium business so you don't have to...

At AFSecure, we don’t usually write hardware reviews. Our mission is typically centred on providing the strategy, security consulting, and network design that keeps Australian small businesses resilient. We’ve hinted at the tools of the trade before - discussing how to stay secure on the road, the...

This can't be real. This can't be real. That was my first thought when I woke up this morning and popped open the news with my morning coffee. Surely our last blog post cooked my brain and this is just a movie... but there it was; thick, black smoke billowing from the Viva Energy refinery in Geelo...

If 2026 has shown us anything, it's that every time something sounds like the plot of a "direct to DVD" movie (or I guess direct to streaming now) - it could be reality. Today's plot revolves around a date, the 1st of March 2027. It's a date that has cybersecurity folk (such as myself) nervously wat...

A small note before we get started today. This isn't the normal carefully worded blog post. Today it's a passionate post fueled by coffee and deep concern. If you're running a small to medium business, this post is for you. If you're running a small to medium business and have been putting off hardw...

I wasn't planning to come back to this topic so soon, but I guess lots of unexpected things are happening in the world today.

I want to start this topic by acknowledging our previous post on AI as a research tool. I'm acknowledging it because I'm also sharing this document generated by AI. It'...

I feel like I’ve seen this movie somewhere before.

Just a few years ago, the idea of an entire workforce upending their commute and setting up at the kitchen table seemed like the plot of a sci-fi thriller (thriller? fizzer?). Then, almost overnight, it became our reality. We learned to navigate Z...