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Microsoft

The Device Is Personal. The Risk Isn't

Employees no longer work only from company-issued laptops inside company offices. They check emails from personal phones, open documents on tablets, join Teams meetings from home computers, and access cloud applications from devices IT may have never seen. For employees, this flexibility is convenient. For organizations, it creates a much bigger question: What happens to corporate data when the de

Radmila · August 23, 2026 · 4 min read

Microsoft

Is Your Business Ready for Microsoft Intune?

Most business owners assume a compromised account is easy to spot: You get locked out, a ransom message appears, files disappear, systems stop working, something happens that immediately tells you there is a problem. Many account compromises don't start that way. In fact, some of the most dangerous attacks are the ones that remain quiet . If an attacker gains access to a Microsoft 365 account, imm

Radmila · August 19, 2026 · 7 min read

Microsoft

The Password Was Correct. The User Wasn't

For years, cybersecurity was built around a simple idea: keep attackers outside the network. Firewalls became stronger. Endpoint protection became smarter. Networks became more segmented and monitored. But what happens when an attacker doesn’t need to break through any of them? What happens when they simply log in? A compromised username and password can give an attacker something far more useful

Radmila · August 10, 2026 · 6 min read

Microsoft

Certified, Compliant… and Still Vulnerable?

“We’re compliant, so we’re secure.” It is a reassuring statement. It is also one of the most dangerous assumptions an organization can make about cybersecurity. Compliance matters. Frameworks, regulations, and industry standards establish important requirements for protecting systems and data. They create accountability, define expectations, and provide organizations with a baseline for managing r

Radmila · August 6, 2026 · 5 min read

Microsoft

IT Shouldn't Spend Hours Manually Configuring Every Laptop

Imagine this scenario. A new employee starts on Monday morning. Their laptop arrives, and the IT team begins the familiar routine: Install Microsoft 365. Configure VPN access. Apply security settings. Enable BitLocker. Install business applications. Join the device to the organization's environment. Verify compliance policies. Test everything before handing it over. Multiply that process by 20, 50

Milena · July 21, 2026 · 4 min read

Microsoft

Thousands of Kilometers Away. Seconds Away from Response

Remote work has changed how organizations operate, but it has also changed how cybersecurity teams respond to incidents. Today, a compromised device may be thousands of kilometers away, connected over an unstable network, with no IT staff available to physically intervene. That was exactly the situation we recently faced. A Windows endpoint located in South Sudan became the focus of a security inv

Radmila · July 7, 2026 · 4 min read

Microsoft

Beyond Compliance: How We Strengthened Endpoint Security with Microsoft Intune

When organizations invest in endpoint management, they expect visibility, consistency, and control. But those benefits become difficult to achieve when a significant portion of managed devices are continuously being flagged as non-compliant. That was the challenge we encountered during a recent Microsoft Intune engagement. The organization had already implemented device management and compliance p

Radmila · June 16, 2026 · 4 min read

Microsoft

Our Azure Bill Was Out of Control - Here's How We Cut it by 62%

At one point, our Azure bill stopped making sense. Every month, the number kept climbing, but our traffic growth didn’t match the increase. We expected some scaling costs, that’s normal in cloud environments. But this felt different. The infrastructure was stable, deployments were smooth, and nothing appeared broken. Yet somehow, the monthly spend kept getting worse. At first, we ignored it. Like

Radmila · May 10, 2026 · 5 min read

Microsoft

GPT-5.5 Arrives in Microsoft Foundry_ Advancing Enterprise-Ready AI Agents at Scale

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is set to become broadly available tomorrow through Microsoft Foundry, expanding access to one of the most advanced models yet for organizations building real-world AI agents on Azure. This release continues the steady evolution of the GPT-5 line. GPT-5 unified speed and reasoning into a single system, while GPT-5.4 improved multi-step reasoning and introduced early enterprise-rea

Marty · April 26, 2026 · 3 min read

Practical guidance for cloud and infrastructure decisions.

Decisions, risks and lessons from real infrastructure work.

The Device Is Personal. The Risk Isn't

Is Your Business Ready for Microsoft Intune?

The Password Was Correct. The User Wasn't

Certified, Compliant… and Still Vulnerable?

IT Shouldn't Spend Hours Manually Configuring Every Laptop

Thousands of Kilometers Away. Seconds Away from Response

Beyond Compliance: How We Strengthened Endpoint Security with Microsoft Intune

Our Azure Bill Was Out of Control - Here's How We Cut it by 62%

GPT-5.5 Arrives in Microsoft Foundry_ Advancing Enterprise-Ready AI Agents at Scale

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