Identity is your perimeter. Azure is the platform.
Microsoft Azure consumption, Entra ID, Defender for Endpoint, Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview — provisioned through the whedo.it Cloud Partner agreement, configured against the Essential Eight, and operated as a single security plane rather than a list of products.
Subscription provisioning, cost-management dashboards, reservations and savings plans applied, anomaly detection on. The same Azure you would buy direct, but with a monthly cost-management review that actively recovers spend rather than letting it drift.
Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 deployed across the fleet for real-time behaviour analysis, automated investigation, and remediation. Defender XDR correlates signals across endpoints, email, identity and SaaS — so an attacker pivoting between Outlook, Teams and a workstation lights up as one incident, not three.
Identity hardened with Conditional Access policies that bind sign-ins to compliant devices. Phishing-resistant authentication for admins. Purview sensitivity labels and DLP — especially important if Copilot is being rolled out. The bundle is licensed mostly inside M365 Business Premium; the work is in the configuration.
Azure consumption is metered. Defender SKUs are per-user per-month. MDR sits on top of the platform — see Acronis page.
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I built this business because I wanted to do Managed services properly — for a small number of clients, at a senior level, with the same person on the end of the phone every time. The work is too important and the stakes are too high for anything less.
Behind the formal qualifications: a Cyber Security degree from the University of the Sunshine Coast, currently working on my Master’s, plus a continuous stack of Microsoft, Acronis and Nerdio certifications — the ones that have to be renewed because the threats don’t stay still.
Behind the certifications: thirty years of doing the work. I cut my teeth in consulting, then went to Cisco on the team building the original iPhone — Cisco’s VoIP handset, the trademark Apple later acquired in the 2007 settlement. At TPG in 1999 I sold frame-relay networks when frame-relay was the cutting edge of business connectivity. I built and sold a Sydney-based MSP called Online IT before relocating to Perth.
Three decades of watching what’s actually changed and what hasn’t. The technology has changed almost beyond recognition. The principles haven’t. Identity first. Backup that has actually been tested. A senior practitioner who knows your environment. Calm in an incident. Honest answers when the answer is “no.”
That’s whedo.it. That’s the brief. That’s why long-tenure clients don’t leave.
— Warren Ephron, Director