Essential Eight aligned. Acronis MDR. Identity-first architecture. Immutable backup. The whole posture, operated as a standard.
Six recurring failure modes from the last nine months — taken straight from Microsoft Threat Intelligence, Verizon DBIR 2025, and the ACSC. Each one maps to a service block below.
Bundled, configured properly, monitored around the clock. Most are already in your M365 Business Premium licence. The work is in the configuration and the operating cadence.
Every client environment is operated under the Microsoft Cloud Partner CSP agreement with continuous access to the platform updates, IRAP-assessed services, and security advisories that come with it. Backup and detection run on the Acronis MDR SOC — 24/7, with Active Protection on the very ransomware variants designed to encrypt the backups first.
Above that sits Nerdio Manager Enterprise orchestrating AVD cost and posture, Essential Eight as the baseline framework, and Australian data residency across the Perth, Melbourne, and Brisbane regions. None of it bolt-on. All of it operated.
"The cloud solution provided by whedo.it is far superior to any other system we have previously used. Since moving over to the cloud our daily troubles have disappeared."
Warren walks your Microsoft 365 tenant with you, surfaces what is exposed against the six-block framework above, and tells you what it would take to fix. No follow-up unless you ask for one.
A Support Representative will get in touch.
A Support Representative will be in touch the same business day.
No deck, no pitch — walk your environment with a senior Australian practitioner. Confidential by default.
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