by Andrew Hunt | Jul 30, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
New Zealand has a new cyber security baseline For years the NCSC’s Critical Controls helped businesses focus on the security measures that made the biggest difference. They served us well. But the way we work has changed a lot: cloud services, working from home,...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 24, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
You’re going to hear the word “passkey” a lot over the next year, ready or not. Microsoft has confirmed it’s making passkeys the default way to sign in to Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, starting September 2026. So it’s worth knowing what...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 23, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Have a look around your office and you’ll probably find it already. Someone writing emails with ChatGPT. Someone summarising a report in Copilot. Someone pasting a client spreadsheet into an AI tool to “just tidy it up quickly”. None of it is...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 20, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
I’ve had some version of this conversation a lot lately: “We bought Copilot licences. We know AI matters. But hardly anyone is using it.” A year or two ago the debate was whether AI was worth paying attention to at all. That’s pretty much...
by Andrew Hunt | Jul 19, 2026 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
This is a big year for us. Kinetics turns 30, and OutSource (a year older, having started in 1995) has now passed the 30-year mark too. Thirty years is a long time in any industry. In technology it’s practically forever. When we started, Novell NetWare ran the...
