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— Security

Security as a standard,
not a sales pitch.

Essential Eight aligned. Acronis MDR. Identity-first architecture. Immutable backup. The whole posture, operated as a standard.

See the stack
99.9%
AVD uptime SLA — written into every agreement
<30min
P1 response, business hours, every time
24/7
Managed Detection & Response — Acronis MDR SOC
15yrs
Longest active client — DCLA, since 2011

What is actually going wrong
in Australian SMB IT this year.

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.

01
"Our backup looked fine — until we needed it."
88% of SMB breaches involve ransomware. Operators now target backups in the first hour. Manual or untested backup approaches do not recover from a 2026-grade attack.
→ Acronis MDR + immutable storage
02
"We thought our VPN was the perimeter."
It is not. VPN auth is a consistent entry vector — full domain compromise within hours of one successful login. Identity, MFA and Conditional Access are the perimeter.
→ Entra ID + Conditional Access + AVD replaces VPN
03
"Why are we still being phished in 2026?"
Microsoft blocked 8.3 billion phishing emails in Q1 alone. QR-code phishing more than doubled. Tenants without SPF / DKIM / DMARC and Safe Links are leaving the door open.
→ Defender for O365 + anti-phish baseline
04
"We turned Copilot on. Now what?"
Enabling Copilot without Purview sensitivity labels and access scoping exposes everything Copilot can read — which is usually everything. Governance has to come first.
→ Purview labels + scoped access before activation
05
"Our MFA was bypassed."
Adversary-in-the-middle toolkits steal session tokens after auth completes. MFA stops password attacks; it does not stop token replay. Token-binding is the answer.
→ Conditional Access + CAE + phishing-resistant auth
06
"We can't prove we are compliant."
Essential Eight is moving from box-tick to defensible. Cyber insurers want ML2 evidence. Larger customers ask in supplier questionnaires. Self-declaration is no longer enough.
→ Essential Eight uplift to ML2 + auditable evidence

Six things every serious tenant
should already have.

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.

01
Backup & recovery
Acronis MDR plus immutable storage for VM and Microsoft 365. 30-day retention. Restore-tested monthly. The backup the ransomware crew cannot touch.
Acronis MDR SOC
Active Protection
02
Identity & access
Entra ID with Conditional Access, MFA enforced everywhere. AVD with role-based Published Apps replaces the VPN — nothing left for an attacker to land in.
Entra ID · CA
AVD · MFA
03
Email security
Defender for O365, Safe Links, Safe Attachments, impersonation protection, SPF / DKIM / DMARC tuned to your domain. Already in front of QR-code phishing.
Defender for O365
Anti-phish baseline
04
Tenant baseline
M365 Business Premium licensing, Secure Score lift, Intune device policies, SharePoint permissions audit, Teams governance. Operate the platform you are paying for.
M365 BP · CSP
Intune · SharePoint
05
Copilot governance
Purview sensitivity labels, data classification, prompt-level DLP, scoped access — before Copilot is let loose on your SharePoint. AI that works for you, not against your posture.
Purview
Governance-first
06
Uptime & response
99.9% AVD availability — in writing. Multi-region failover. Nerdio-orchestrated host pools. Same senior practice on every call. No tier-1 script-readers.
99.9% SLA
P1 < 30 min

Insurable.
Auditable.
Defensible.

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.

Microsoft Cloud Partner · CSP Acronis MDR SOC · 24/7 Nerdio Manager Enterprise Essential Eight aligned AU data residency

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Thirty minutes of your time. Your business. Only answers and a solution.

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.

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