Newsletters 🎁 Wrapping Up 2022 Coming to the end of another year means reflecting on what has been achieved, and what could be improved or changed. Our newsletter has now been running for just over six months – that’s 26 newsletters in total! Our most popular topics this year included security, employee training and learning, and artificial intelligence (AI). Unsurprisingly, this has reflected […] Written by Olivia Morgan December 20, 2022December 20, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters 🤖 Artificial Intelligence (AI) for coding, writing, and more! My first brush with AI was in my final year at Uni. The cool kids had snatched all of the interesting thesis topics. My friend Paul was capturing 3D data from a 2D image, similar to this – very cool. I approached one of my computer science lecturers and he said, “read this, and base […] Written by Olivia Morgan December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters 🔍 Identify Threats Early With Azure Monitor When I was learning to fly, monitoring was a big deal. Looking out for traffic, making sure engine temperature and pressure remained in the green zone, adjusting angle of attack, tweaking airspeed, checking radio frequencies, watching the little ball on the yaw indicator. These constant checks ensured safe, smooth and efficient flight. The same goes for IT systems […] Written by Olivia Morgan December 1, 2022December 1, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Building Strong IT Relationships Strong and enduring relationships are important but often get overlooked in IT. Strong relationships are built upon shared commitment and trust. Without these, awesome ideas die on the vine. I am sure you’ve seen this before. Forming long term relationships with IT providers can be difficult too, particularly in our world of probity and procurement […] Written by Olivia Morgan November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Simplifying Security With Microsoft Following on from my email last week, I wanted to describe how you can build a complete Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution completely with Microsoft offerings. My philosophy is two-fold: 1) make the most of the Microsoft 365 licencing you already have and, 2) remove much of the third-party security infrastructure you have that […] Written by Olivia Morgan November 18, 2022November 18, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Protecting Your Data Security has always been a big deal, and recent events have brought it into sharp focus for many of us. I remember in the early 90s, implementing a secure system for Defence. We were so worried about data interception that we built the entire network using fibre – right up to the desktop. Sadly, in […] Written by Olivia Morgan November 11, 2022November 11, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters ✅ Open Source Solutions for Test Automation We get so caught up sometimes delivering new features that quality starts to slip. I’ve been there – in the race to deliver, ripping up the back yard, testing feels like your Mum yelling ‘slow down’ out the kitchen window. Test automation provides a middle path, automating much of the quality checking bit, and freeing you up […] Written by Olivia Morgan November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Maximum Speed With Microservices ✈️ When I was a radar engineer with the RAAF in the early 90’s, I marvelled at a thing they called PAR (or Precision Approach Radar). It was unique because it allowed an air traffic controller to get an aircraft down in really bad weather, within a few inches of the runway centreline. The only visuals […] Written by Olivia Morgan October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Personalised Employee Learning Have you ever had to roll out a new system and not had the training material ready? Good training material takes time, particularly if you need to cut it from scratch. Well life on the e-learning plains is getting easier. The new kids on the block in the e-learning space are Learning Pathways and Viva […] Written by Olivia Morgan October 20, 2022October 20, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Hassle Free Data Migration 📂↗️☁️ Whilst working at a Water Corporation a while back, I had to migrate 250k records from Records Manager to Content Manager 9. The documents themselves were straightforward, but the transformations of the related metadata were extreme (including nested lists). I used Power Query for this and although good for understanding data quality, it was very manual […] Written by Olivia Morgan October 12, 2022October 12, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
It’s bigger on the inside… Building a customer portal can be tricky. In the heat of the dot com bubble, I was a consultant working on the telstra.com team – Telstra’s first shot at a one-stop-shop for customers. I was working for Accenture at the time as a Manager in the UAT team. It was a goliath of a project, […] Written by Olivia Morgan February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Low Cost eLearning 📝 Learning in my uni years was fun and not because of the lecturers or the material, but more so of the antics we got up to. Engineers with too much idle time and all that. In an auditorium full of people, a group from up the back launched a massive paper plane (I reckon 5ft […] Written by Olivia Morgan February 1, 2023February 1, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
It’s bigger on the inside… Building a customer portal can be tricky. In the heat of the dot com bubble, I was a consultant working on the telstra.com team – Telstra’s first shot at a one-stop-shop for customers. I was working for Accenture at the time as a Manager in the UAT team. It was a goliath of a project, […] Written by Olivia Morgan February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Low Cost eLearning 📝 Learning in my uni years was fun and not because of the lecturers or the material, but more so of the antics we got up to. Engineers with too much idle time and all that. In an auditorium full of people, a group from up the back launched a massive paper plane (I reckon 5ft […] Written by Olivia Morgan February 1, 2023February 1, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Future is Calling ☎️ Do you remember the grungy dens that were public payphones? Before the days of mobile phones, I’d have to push my way past McDonalds wrappers so I could call Mum to let her know I was going to be late for dinner. My uni friends talked of all sorts of scams to get free phone […] Written by Olivia Morgan January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Office 365 backup and archive have landed In the beginning, there were no backup solutions for Office 365. I mean, there were some limited recovery options. Microsoft now has a retention and recovery function that is good for up to 30 days for Exchange Online. SharePoint fairs a little better with a 93-day retention period after deletion (exc hard deletes), and the […] Written by Olivia Morgan February 8, 2024February 8, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Simplify IT security with zero trust 🚫 My first job out of uni was as an Electronic Systems Engineer in the RAAF designing solid state replacements for SURAD, the ATC radar of the day. One of the hardest things to recreate was Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) tags. In a target rich environment, IFF tags help air defence officers filter good aircraft […] Written by Olivia Morgan June 13, 2023June 13, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Securing IT Systems in Freefall ✈️ Stalling an aircraft, intentionally, was never fun – but necessary to feel the effects of when you lose control. The procedure was to 1) ascend to 4000ft AGL over farmland, 2) jam the throttle control in to idle, 3) as airspeed decreases, keep pulling the stick back to raise the nose and maintain altitude, 4) […] Written by Olivia Morgan June 5, 2023June 5, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Strengthening Security with MFA 🔍 We all have customers in some form or another and identifying them can be tricky. Mid last year ACMA brought in regulation to make it mandatory for telcos to use a second factor in verifying a customer attempting to perform a high risk transaction (for example, adding an account holder). Many telcos adopted this second […] Written by Olivia Morgan May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked