How passkeys work, and why you should use them
Sign in with a fingerprint, face or PIN, without typing a password. Learn how passkeys work, why they resist phishing, and how to avoid getting locked out.
Writing
What we are seeing, written up as we go.
Notes from our own work, with any client details removed. Mostly about the unglamorous things that actually cause incidents in Australian small business estates: domains, email, endpoints and the systems nobody owns.
Moving from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365: what the process really looks like
We moved our own email from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365. Copying the mailbox was the easy part. Addresses, domains stuck in old tenants and the final checks took longer.
Most DNS change alerts are not incidents
A full run of DNS change alerts with nothing actionable in it. What the noise really is, why the obvious fix is dangerous, and how to spot the real change.
The fastest SSD we tested is slower than a hard disk
Four external SSDs, five enclosures and four cables, measured. The peaks were all capped by the link. The number that decided it is not on the box.