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Top tips: How to use public Wi-Fi without handing your data to a stranger

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what's trending in the tech world and list practical ways to explore these trends. This week, we are tackling something almost everyone does without thinking twice: connecting to public Wi-Fi (and what it could be costing you without you ever knowing). You are at an airport, a coffee shop, or a hotel lobby. You notice your data plan is running low and scroll through the available networks. And there it is: Free Wi-Fi—no password required.

10 best network device management software

Network outages are still painfully expensive, and configuration mistakes are one of the biggest culprits. A 2023 analysis of Uptime Institute data shows that configuration and change management failures are the top cause of major network outages, responsible for around 45% of network incidents. Even a small configuration slip on a core switch can cascade into large-scale downtime. That’s why consistent, well-governed network device management is key to keeping business services uninterrupted.

Episode 2: Least privilege access

In this episode, we'll walk you through one of the core tenets of PAM360: eliminating standing privileges. You will learn how to replace permanent administrative access with just-in-time (JIT) privilege elevation, reduce your attack surface, and enforce least-privilege access across your endpoints and critical systems. We will also break down PAM360's privilege elevation framework—built on a maker-checker model and policy-based access—so you can configure and scrutinize access requests, automate approvals, and enable dynamic controls for applications and user actions.

Your fleet's firmware certificate is expiring: What June 2026 means for IT teams

Every Windows device your organization deployed before 2025 carries a set of certificates in its Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware. They've been there since 2011, quietly doing the work of validating boot signatures so nothing untrusted runs before the operating system loads. Most IT teams have never had a reason to think about them. That's about to change.

Why network vulnerability management is critical for businesses and how to automate it

Network vulnerability management is no longer a periodic security task. As networks expand across locations, vendors, and OSs, vulnerabilities can emerge quietly through configuration changes, outdated firmware, or delayed patching. Without consistent visibility and automation, teams often discover risks only after they affect availability, security, or compliance. Effective vulnerability management requires continuous awareness, structured assessment, and controlled remediation.

PAM essentials for effective compliance with the Australian Essential Eight and the ISM controls

The Australian Essential Eight and the Information Security Manual (ISM) together define the cybersecurity baseline for organisations operating in Australia. While the ISM contains over 700 security controls, the Essential Eight distils the most critical of these into eight prioritised mitigation strategies and each strategy maps to multiple ISM controls underneath it. At the heart of both frameworks lies one recurring theme: restricting and governing privileged access and that's where privileged access management becomes your most powerful compliance lever.

Five Worthy Reads: The growing tide of post-quantum cryptography

Five Worthy Reads is a regular column highlighting five noteworthy articles we've discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this article, we're exploring post-quantum cryptography (PQC), which is a rapidly evolving field focused on protecting sensitive data from the future threat posed by quantum computers. Current digital security relies heavily on public key cryptography to protect sensitive information, secure communications, and verify identities.

A day in the life of a SOC analyst-and what actually slows them down

In the current threat landscape, the pressure on security operations center (SOC) teams has never been higher. Yet for many organizations, the reality of daily security operations is less high-tech threat hunting and more of an uphill battle against manual processes and fragmented data. To understand why SOC teams are burning out, let's walk through a typical morning of an SOC analyst.

AD, AD domains, and primary domain controllers: The backbone of enterprise identity-and why DNS keeps it alive

At some point, every enterprise faces the same quiet operational nightmare: hundreds of users, thousands of devices, multiple locations, and someone in the IT department manually managing who gets access to what. Active Directory (AD) was Microsoft's answer to that problem when it shipped with Windows 2000, and it remains, over two decades later, the dominant identity and access infrastructure in enterprise networks worldwide.