by CPI Staff | Oct 12, 2026 | Blog, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Entra ID, Essential 8, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Security, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Purview
When a business enables Multi-Factor Authentication and calls it “done,” they’ve taken one important step — but left the door wide open in a dozen other places. MFA blocks a significant portion of credential-based attacks. Microsoft’s own data...
by CPI Staff | Oct 12, 2026 | Blog, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Security
Most Microsoft 365 environments are deployed for productivity first and secured later, if at all. That is how many Australian businesses end up with the appearance of control without the substance of it. Email works. Teams works. Files sync. Staff can work from...
by CPI Staff | Oct 12, 2026 | Blog, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Microsoft 365
When our team starts a Microsoft 365 security review, we focus on the areas that quickly tell us whether an environment is well controlled, loosely managed, or quietly carrying avoidable risk. For many Australian organisations, Microsoft 365 has become the centre of...
by CPI Staff | Oct 12, 2026 | Blog, Cybersecurity, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Security, Microsoft Intune
Most Australian organisations have invested in Microsoft 365 licences, security policies, and compliance controls. But there is a gap that regularly gets overlooked — and attackers know exactly where it is. Unmanaged devices. A personal laptop, a contractor’s...
by CPI Staff | Oct 12, 2026 | Blog, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Entra ID, Essential 8, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Security
Every Microsoft 365 tenant tells a story. Emails flowing, Teams meetings running, SharePoint humming along. From the outside, everything looks operational. But operational is not the same as secure — and the gap between those two things is where breaches happen. When...
by CPI Staff | Oct 12, 2026 | Blog, Cyber Security Strategy & Governance
Too many organisations still treat the Essential Eight as a maturity exercise they will get to later. That position is getting harder to defend. In March 2026, the Australian Cyber Security Centre published a joint advisory on INC Ransom and its affiliate network,...
