by Andrew Hunt | Oct 21, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security, Webinar Recording
Here’s a question we get asked a lot by people rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot: “Will Copilot let people see things they shouldn’t?” The short answer is no, Copilot doesn’t give anyone new permissions. The longer (and more uncomfortable) answer is that it makes...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 14, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
That cheap streaming box plugged into the back of the TV doesn’t look like much of a threat. New research suggests we should start thinking about it differently. On 12 October, William Zhou and Daniel Freeman from Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published research...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 10, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
A couple of AI stories over the last few weeks made me stop and re-read them. Neither involved criminals. Both involved AI companies testing their own models, and both came down to an agent trying a bit too hard to get its job done. An agent in the Medicare portal In...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 2, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, TIPS TRICKS AND HINTS
We’ve been using Microsoft Copilot across the business for a couple of years now. Sales, marketing, operations, cybersecurity, management reports, tech support, client emails, you name it. After hundreds of conversations with it, two things stand out for me:...
by Andrew Hunt | Sep 16, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security, TIPS TRICKS AND HINTS, Webinar Recording
Like it or not, AI has already arrived in most businesses. Your team is probably trying out AI tools right now, and while there are real productivity gains, there are also new risks around data, governance and compliance. In this 30-minute webinar, our sister company...
by Andrew Hunt | Sep 14, 2026 | AI, IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Every business creates sensitive information every day: client records, contracts, financials, staff details, legal advice and commercially confidential material. Protecting it used to be mostly about keeping outsiders out. Now it’s just as much about who inside...