Education

Discover how AI-ready Surface devices are transforming teaching and learning

With flexible AI-enabled devices, you can empower teachers and students to create and consume immersive digital learning experiences. To simplify your delivery of IT services as an education provider, Surface devices offer streamlined deployment, centralised management through Microsoft Intune, and built-in security features—reducing administrative overhead while maximising classroom impact.

Education

Canterbury College | Empowering Students to be World Ready

With a commitment to improving the digital learning experience, the move was made to a 1:1 school managed device program. In making the choice of “which device?”, the college looked to Microsoft and Surface. The decision frame centred on digital inking capability, laptop to tablet modality, and seamless integration with Microsoft digital learning staples like OneNote, Teams and SharePoint.

Education

Catholic Education Sandhurst’s technology strategy blazes a new trail

Catholic Education Sandhurst (CESL) centralised its IT strategy, partnering with Microsoft to provide every student, everywhere across the diocese with access to the best technology and the best education solutions. They initially migrated 36 schools to Microsoft 365, deployed 3,500 Surface devices, and provided training for seamless adoption. CESL is now poised to leverage future Microsoft innovations for improved educational outcomes.

All Industries

From roll-out to optimisation: Mastering Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption with Unified

Unlock the full potential of Microsoft 365 Copilot with expert insights on seamless adoption and optimisation. Discover how Microsoft’s Copilot Cloud Solution Architects (CSAs) can fast-track your organisation’s deployment of Copilot, boost security and compliance, and drive user adoption through tailored training and change management strategies. Plus, learn five key lessons from early Copilot adopters to help your organisation achieve a smooth and impactful roll-out. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to optimise Copilot, this blog post provides actionable steps to realising its significant productivity benefits.

Education

Microsoft Surface and AI Masterclass

Join Microsoft Education experts Dan Bowen, Amanda Frampton, and Andrew Balzer as they explore how AI is influencing teaching and learning in schools.

All Industries

AI success rests on secure foundations

While the new era of AI presents unprecedented opportunities to elevate human potential, we must not overlook a critical factor in realising this potential: data security. And protecting data starts with the basics.

Financial Services

Helping financial institutions prepare for APRA CPS 230 compliance with the Microsoft Compliance Checklist

Discover how Microsoft is empowering financial institutions to navigate their APRA CPS 230 compliance with practical tools, expert insights, and upcoming workshops designed to enhance operational resilience.

Data & AI

Navigating generative AI and the Australian Privacy Act: A Microsoft guide

Generative AI is unlocking new possibilities for innovation, but it also brings responsibilities, such as complying with the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“Privacy Act”). The Australian Privacy Principles, which form the cornerstone of the privacy protection framework in the Privacy Act, apply to generative AI. At Microsoft, we understand the need to balance technological progress with trust and privacy obligations. That’s why Microsoft have developed a comprehensive guide to help organisations harness the power of generative AI while adhering to their legal responsibilities under the Privacy Act.

Education

St Michael’s device strategy has culture at its heart

“This is a tool for learning.” These words lie at the heart of how St Michael’s Grammar School in St Kilda in Melbourne reframed from a technology-led device strategy to a learning-led device strategy.

Education

Inside the digital learning revolution at Shore

Shore moved to Surface Pros and achieved better learning outcomes, plus the resulting time savings and efficiency benefits for the ICT team and teachers.

Education

Can AI bring back the joy to teaching? Try these Microsoft Surface AI power-ups

Lesson preparation, assessment, research, administration and liaising with parents are just some of the many tasks weighing today’s teachers down. Explore how the new Surface devices with AI can bring back the joy to teaching.

Education

Why teachers love Surface for the classroom

In today’s digital, physical, blended, and hybrid classrooms, teachers want new ways to help every student achieve more. Providing them with natural ways to work can help. Touchscreens support intuitive interactions for every student and digital inking offers the versatility to sketch ideas, take notes, or do math equations. Hear why teachers love Surface In…

Education

Picking one device for all gets everyone on the same page

When the newly built Riverbanks College in Adelaide’s north was preparing to welcome its first students, a great deal of thought went into the devices that students would be carrying to and from home. Staff and teachers wanted a device with the capabilities of a PC, the portability of a tablet, and superior battery life….

Education

The AI Potential for Education

One of the great 80s songs reminds us that education is an essential component to empowerment: “I believe children are the future, teach them well and let them lead the way.” As we consider AI’s entrance into our lives in the last 10 months, this sentiment rings true. Young people will hold the potential of…

Education

The Hutchins School Surface Laptop Go upgrade transforms the classroom experience

The Hutchins School in Hobart has achieved Microsoft Gold School status for transforming the use of technology in education, after upgrading to Surface laptops for its middle school students. The Anglican boys’ school switched from Google Chromebooks to Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Go at the start of 2022 for years 6 to 8. As a result,…

Education

Breaking New Ground in Hybrid Learning Solutions

Through the height of the pandemic with fully online classes the norm, a spark was ignited for Dr David Kellermann, Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School at UNSW in Sydney. As he delivered online classes from his home studio, Dr Kellermann could see a fork in the road ahead. One path would lead to…

Education

Australian Catholic University addresses employer needs with in-demand Microsoft skills

Graduates of Australian Catholic University (ACU) can now “hit the ground running”, with certified up-to-date core digital skills guaranteed through embedding Microsoft certifications into IT and Business courses. Gaining certification in Microsoft Excel and Azure Fundamentals is now embedded as a mandatory element of the curriculum and offered free to all students and staff. ACU…

All Industries

From pilot to production: Unlocking the full potential of generative AI in your organisation

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t a newcomer to the business world. For years, organisations have experimented with this technology to optimise operations, unearth insights and drive innovation. This article explore the significant economic and productivity opportunities of generative AI, including use cases and real-life examples of how organisations are creative opportunities now.

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Data & AI

Five questions every board member should ask about their organisation’s AI strategy

The term artificial intelligence (AI) was first coined in 1956 by computer scientists looking to solve chess problems. Since then, the technology has obviously evolved, but the basic concept hasn’t. By simulating human intelligence, AI enables machines to learn and act in a way that’s increasingly reminiscent of you and me. The technology has had…

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Partner

Partner for purpose with us in FY24

Our Partner for Purpose program is focused on inpsiring each other and creating positive impact among our Microsoft partner ecosystem.

Health

The Role of Digital in Health System Reform

Discover how innovative care models and AI is driving better access, equity and outcomes in healthcare.

Security

Digital Defenders

Let’s talk next gen Cyber Defence.

Security

How we manage incidents at Microsoft

Learn why Microsoft’s Cyber Defense Operation Center brings together incident responders, threat intelligence, legal, investigators, communications and marketing teams to work on an incident.

Security

Cybersecurity Recovery & Remediation After a Security Breach

Recovery from a cyber security incident is a three-stage process, not a continuum.

Security

Containing and Eradicating Threats

Cyber-attacks are becoming more frequent and sophisticated. That’s why it’s important to plan for how you’ll contain an attack.

Security

Detecting & Analysing Threats

The faster you act in a security incident, the faster you can resolve and remediate it. That’s why having a plan in advance is so important. We are here to help you get yours in a strong place.

Security

Cyber Security Incident Response

The intensity and sophistication of cyber-attacks is on the rise. It’s no longer a question of if you’ll get breached. You have been lucky if you are yet to deal with a cyber security incident.

Security

The Zero Trust Security Model for Business

Learn how to utilise Microsoft solutions to protect your systems and respond to breaches quickly and effectively.

Security

What we learned when putting in Zero Trust at Microsoft

Want to find out how we’ve been implementing Zero Trust internally at Microsoft? Our experts share approaches, lessons learnt, and best practices.

Security

Keep your computer and communications secure with Zero Trust

Without infrastructure, no IT can run. Without a network, nobody can communicate. However, these essential items are also threat vectors.

Security

Zero Trust for app and data security, with user productivity

Assess your security posture and apply app controls and data protection for a Zero Trust based defence.

Security

With the Zero Trust cyber security approach, you’ll always know the good guys from the bad guys

How to apply Zero Trust to contain the attack surface that has been expanded by remote working and device proliferation.

Security

How Zero Trust simplicity helps deal with a complex world

Get clear and practical guidance on applying Zero Trust principles to protect against risks.

Security

Managing Cyber Risk

Hear from Microsoft ANZ and Industry Experts as they discuss key topics such as cyber risk identification, assessment, response, and monitoring.

Security

Use Microsoft’s internal cyber risk management to benchmark your own organisation

Designed for simplicity and effectiveness, learn about Microsoft’s own approach cyber risk and cybersecurity decisions.

Security

Simple steps to assess and prioritise cyber risks for your enterprise

In a risk-based approach to cybersecurity, learn how much each cyber risk matters to your enterprise, so you can decide how to handle it.

Security

Boosting your cybersecurity posture through cost-effective, high performance cyber risk monitoring

From continuous cyber risk monitoring to multi-level, third party risk tracking and virtuous risk monitoring feedback loops, learn how to reinforce your cybersecurity.

Security

Keep your enterprise secure and productive with the right cyber response strategy

Deep dive into the 4 forms of response to cyber risk.

Security

Practical steps for protection through proper cyber risk identification

Discover the importance of diversity in getting a comprehensive view of cyber risks affecting your organisation.

Security

Why a risk-based approach to cybersecurity is the right business choice for the “new normal”

Steps to prepare your organisation for moving to risk-based cybersecurity.

Security

Plug your cyber security holes today to stay patched and protected!

In this blog we discuss Microsoft patching solutions to strengthen and protect your IT against cyber threats.

Government

The five benefits of digitalised government finance

Turn disruptions into opportunities with a Dynamics 365 finance system.

Government

Managing a public sector workforce?

Try these 7 tactics to keep staff happy, safe and productive.

Education

Queensland Department of Education transforms remote access capability with Azure Virtual Desktop

There’s nothing like a crisis to underscore deficiencies in aging IT infrastructure – and so COVID-19 provided added impetus to the search for a modern replacement of remote access technologies used by corporate staff within the Queensland Department of Education (QLD DoE). This year saw deployment of the cloud-based Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) platform to…

Health

Generative AI for the Healthcare Sector

Explore generative AI in the healthcare sector, its benefits and potential applications.

Education

Virtual classrooms offer equitable learning experiences for remote and rural students

A new virtual learning program brings expert-level tuition to regional and remote Catholic high schools, helping senior students overcome the “tyranny of distance”. The Virtual Learning Collaborative (VLC) uses Microsoft Teams and OneNote Class Notebook to deliver courses that would otherwise have been denied to final-year students because of a lack of qualified teachers and…

Education

Methodist Ladies’ College is building a supportive school community with real-time data insights

A Melbourne girls’ school is inviting parents to become more involved in their children’s learning – using technology to give them a “real-time” view of how things are going in the classroom. Methodist Ladies’ College (MLC) is using a Microsoft Power BI data visualisation to share a range of information about students’ progress in a…

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Partner

Microsoft and Dicker Data – partnering to support nonprofits

Microsoft is committed to helping the world’s nonprofits innovate and transform, supporting them to have a greater impact on the world’s most critical social issues. We are so proud of our partnership with technology distributor Dicker Data in an initiative that will see them train and enable our extensive partner network to use their skills…

Education

Upgrading for security at Newington College

Education has changed significantly in the last handful of years. The disruptions that forced students into remote learning catalysed most schools to perform a digital transformation. Today, these changes persist, particularly in hybrid classes that function largely online. Schools are seeing expanded use of education applications, with new ways of organising and distributing information, and…

Education

Ground-breaking new institute promises to close the digital skills gap

The Institute of Applied Technology – Digital is now welcoming its first students, who will be trained in the areas of big data, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

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Digital Businesses

Deploying digital operations to protect national security

In an expanded digital landscape for defence, learn why the ability to develop, procure and adopt technology at speed is critical.

Education

TAFE Queensland delivers seamless blended learning with Microsoft 365

For over 140 years, TAFE Queensland has been delivering practical and industry-relevant training to provide students with the skills and experience they need to build lifelong careers. From entry-level certificates and apprenticeships to bachelor degrees, around 125,000 students annually undertake hands-on training at more than 60 campus locations throughout Queensland. As you can imagine, the…

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Financial Services

Using endpoint management to support E8 and Zero Trust

Are you looking to implement Zero Trust or E8 security for your employee devices? Check out Intune’s new capabilities to make the task easier.

Education

Microsoft Azure upgrade brings an end to computer lab queues

When the University of Queensland upgraded its virtual desktop solution to Microsoft Azure, its Science and Engineering students were grateful to be able to leave their sleeping bags and camp chairs at home. Previously, when they needed to use specialist software such as geographic information system (GIS) software for their assignments, they had to be…

Education

How SA Department for Education is taking its data maturity to a new level

How SA Department for Education is taking its data maturity to a new level using advanced analytics, machine learning and cloud technologies

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Partner

How DXC is harnessing an under-utilised market to fill the IT skills gap

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, we must weave one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.” – Margaret Meade Diversity, inclusion and equality (DEI) is now a key focus for organisations, but in spite of this, research from the Institute of Leadership & Management found that the workplace…

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Industry

Securing your critical business assets

How to identify where to direct your security investments for greatest business impact. An interview between Sarah Carney, CTO-Enterprise and Hilary Walton, Senior Account Technology Strategist.

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Partner

How Versent and the cloud are helping make sustainable goals achievable

A Sustainability strategy used to be a ‘nice to have’ but as climate change becomes more difficult to deny, it has become a must-have for organisations around the world. When you think of sustainability, often it’s aspects like waste and recycling, water usage and renewable energy sources that come to mind – not technology. Microsoft…

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Partner

End Street Sleeping Collaborations’ app brings NSW one step closer to reducing street sleeping by 50%

Barhead Solutions, together with the End Street Sleeping Collaboration (ESSC), developed the Microsoft Power App named BNL (“By-Name List”) 2.0, a real-time app to help street sleepers in Australia Homelessness is heartbreakingly complex; it is a systemic, social and serious problem that government alone cannot solve. Tackling this multifaceted and systemic issue will require collaborative…

Education

Responsive teaching that reflects the reality of the student experience using Microsoft Reflect

Every act of learning happens in a context. When an educator steps in front of a room to begin the first lesson of the day, with the first period bell’s ring still echoing in the hall, that educator must deal with myriad challenges and backgrounds students have brought to the classroom. Events at home, frustration…

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Partner

How My Net Zero and LiveTiles are unlocking the green power of employees

Is sustainability the responsibility of the individual, or big business? According to LiveTiles and My Net Zero, it’s both; and they’ve found a way to make it easier for everyone. ‘Net zero’ is the target of negating the amount of greenhouse gases produced by human activity, by reducing emissions and implementing methods of absorbing carbon…

Digital Businesses

What can a president and a janitor teach us about achieving big organisational goals?

The story goes that in the early 1960’s, US President John F. Kennedy was on a visit to NASA and passed by a janitor mopping the floor. “Why are you working so late?” Kennedy enquired. “Mr President,” said the janitor, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon.”

Microsoft Snackable Series

Microsoft Snackable Series – Multi-Factor Authentication

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Security, Privacy & Compliance

October – Cybersecurity Awareness Month

One of the main goals of Cybersecurity Awareness Month this October is to prevent unwanted unauthorised activities and cybercrimes. Microsoft Security has teamed up with the Australian Cyber Security Centre to empower individuals and organisations with educational content, helping to keep them safe both at work and at home.

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Industry

Turning headwinds into tailwinds for Australia’s retail industry: Why I joined Microsoft

As we welcome our new ANZ Industry Director for Retail, Sanjay Prakash, we sat down to understand a little more about why such a passionate retail professional joined Microsoft.

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Financial Services

Creating a tech roadmap for ANZ’s financial services industry: My new role at Microsoft

It’s been just over four months since I joined Microsoft Australia as Chief Technology Officer for the Financial Services Industry, and so far, I’ve loved every minute of working in my new role! I wanted to share with you why I decided to take this exciting next step in my career, as well as a…

Education

How can higher education create a next generation digital campus?

In the past few years, I have spoken to vice chancellors, university presidents, CIOs, and deans from the world’s largest and most prominent universities. What I found is they share 3 common initiatives to improve the quality of higher education (HED) for students, educators, and administrators: Tailored learning experiences and communities to develop student skills and…

Education

Reducing the device divide to enhance learning experiences at Hillpark School

Educators around the globe are tasked with preparing students for the jobs, challenges and opportunities of the future. This means that now, more than ever, students deserve equitable access to technology. However, with device equity a pressing issue for schools across New Zealand, students are at risk of unequitable outcomes. That’s why Microsoft Education New…

Education

Innovation for Impact and Lifelong Learning – Accelerating Baulkham Hills North Public School’s Digital Transformation

In todays’ rapidly transforming world, how can schools and educators prepare students for the jobs, challenges, and opportunities of the future? It’s a question asked by educators throughout the world, and taken to heart by Baulkham Hills North Public School (BHNPS) as they embarked on a partnership with Microsoft Australia and HP. The New South…

Education

Grade A5 Security – How schools like Te Kura are creating the safest learning environments

With schools around Aotearoa embracing technology and moving to blended learning, this greater flexibility has been shadowed by greater cyber risk. Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu (Te Kura), New Zealand’s Correspondence School, knows this better than most. Turning 100 this year, the school has a modern and cutting-edge approach to digital technologies, to enable better…

Education

Barker College staff and students become ‘citizen developers’ with Power Platform

When independent school Barker College decided to upgrade its student information system into a “Barker-verse”, it was seeking a platform that was cost-effective and flexible enough to meet the diverse needs of the school. The school’s ICT project manager, Andrew Ashby, says Barker decided to adopt Microsoft Power Platform to automate processes and augment its…

Education

Job-ready grads are closing the digital skills gap

After a day of classes, homework, and part-time work, students need time to wind down. So, using up their precious free hours to learn industry skills can be daunting. When the University of Sunshine Coast (USC) embedded industry certifications as a mandatory part of its ICT curriculum this year, it solved a problem for students….

Apps & Infrastructure

Need a quick guide to new technology impacting government?

For those making ICT decisions in the public sector, there’s a lot to keep you awake at night – and that’s after you’ve navigated a worldwide pandemic.

Education

How robotic process automation is unlocking more efficiencies and deeper insights for Australian Catholic University

Australian Catholic University (ACU) ranks in the top 2 per cent of universities worldwide. It serves around 33,000 students, including more than 4,300 international students from more than 90 countries. ACU also has over 125,000 alumni. The university needed to synchronise the data in its primary system for managing prospective students and alumni with a new…

Digital Businesses

Here’s what makes the industrial metaverse impossible to ignore

National Government Industry Executive, Gavin Brown, breaks down the key infrastructure required to make the most of the industrial metaverse, such as through powerful tools like digital twins. The industrial metaverse is taking shape before our eyes, prompting many government and enterprise organisations to ask, ‘How do we make the most of this technology?”

Digital Businesses

The new (mixed) reality for healthcare

Health Industry Advisor Simon Kos and Mixed Reality Solutions & Partners Lead Lawrence Crumpton have joined forces to show you where MR is headed in health. Over the past few years, mixed reality (MR) has begun transforming the healthcare landscape. From training to delivery and clinical decision-making, healthcare organisations are exploring how MR could improve their outcomes.

Education

Brisbane Catholic Education reimplements its ERP in the cloud to support over 170 schools with varied needs

Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE) provides services, programs and resources to 146 schools across South East Queensland, along with approximately 30 schools in the Diocese of Cairns. BCE recently launched its new digital strategy to better engage and support students, teachers and staff members in a climate of rapid technological transformation. “For us in IT, it’s…

Digital Businesses

Is your business ready to step into the metaverse?

Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer for Commercial Enterprise, Sarah Carney Green, clarifies the challenge laid down by the metaverse and how to harness learnings from Covid to pivot your technology and processes.

Education

Microsoft and UTS launch Biz Apps Graduate Certificate to help solve technology skills shortage

The course aims to produce 1,200 graduates over the next two years. Microsoft and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have today announced an innovative new course designed to help individuals build high-value careers and enable more organisations to harness the power of business applications. As we progress towards an increasingly augmented workforce where humans…

Education

Migration to Azure turns Edith Cowan University into a data powerhouse

When Edith Cowan University began its decade-long data warehouse transformation, it was essentially looking to create a “single source of truth” for student and financial information. The previous IT infrastructure lacked flexibility and agility. It also could not deliver the insights required because it lacked capability in how the data could be used, consolidated and…

Education

From Paper to Ink; moving from paper-based learning to a digital learning environment

St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls has been educating young women for the past 125 years. A school steeped in academic achievement and tradition, its digital transformation was in its infancy when the recent events of COVID-19 saw it rapidly gain momentum overnight. Prior to COVID-19, the school’s device structure consisted of Computers on…

Education

Queensland Department of Education secures 271,000 devices and servers in just six weeks

The Queensland Department of Education (QDoE) provides education services to more than 580,000 students across 1,258 schools in the state. It also employs more than 78,000 people in teaching and corporate roles. QDoE has a well-established reputation for its zero-tolerance approach to child safety. It prioritises protecting students and staff by securing the information and…

Education

Australian Islamic College tech upgrade opens a door to the future – and the world

When Australia went into Covid-19 lockdown, the Australian Islamic College was able to switch to online learning in days, thanks to a well-timed technology upgrade to Microsoft 365 A5 for Education. With over 25 years’ experience in the Education Sector, Microsoft Gold partner and solutions provider Data#3 worked with the college in Western Australia to transform teaching,…

Education

Catholic Education Western Australia takes proactive steps to accelerate digital transformation

Catholic Education Western Australia (CEWA) is utilising Microsoft Unified Support to help deliver its digital transformation program and adopt a more agile way of working in the cloud. As a result, the organisation can better protect its most critical data and proactively head off performance issues before they begin. Catholic Education Western Australia is the…

Security

Coast 2 Coast

The first episode of Coast 2 Coast, meet Beau and Lou – Technology Specialists at Microsoft, as they cover the recent updates and news about Microsoft Compliance Technologies!

Security

Government: Today’s Challenges and Compliance Risks

For many government agencies across Australia and New Zealand, compliance is a challenging environment in the post-pandemic world. Since the pandemic started, we have seen an explosion of digital data and rapid adoption of the hybrid workplace.

Security

Healthcare Sensitive Information: Today’s Compliance Risks

Since the start of the pandemic, our healthcare industry has seen a shift towards telehealth and phone consultations.

Security

Financial Data Governance: Prevent Today’s Compliance Risks

Today, financial institutions are complying in a complex and dynamic environment to protect their customers.

Security

Hybrid Work and HR: Privacy, Compliance and Data Risks

The recent pandemic has changed the workplace in many ways including the rapid adoption of the hybrid workplace.

Legal

Today’s Data Compliance Risks for Legal and IT

As we reach the other side of the pandemic, we have seen a rapid adoption of the hybrid work model as well as a change in how our customers engage with us.

Security

Compliance Data Ecosystems: The Role of Risk Managers

As the pace of digital transformation accelerates, organisations face greater security risks associated with data, users, devices, and applications.

Security

Don’t be scared, be prepared: Simple steps to combat cybercrime

While COVID-19 continues to paint an uncertain picture of the future, one thing we can be sure of is the rise of cybercrime in Australia and New Zealand.

Education

Catholic Schools NSW chalks up big data and analytics win for schools and students

Across New South Wales 257,000 students attend 598 Catholic schools operated by 30,000 staff, across 11 dioceses as well as 46 independent Catholic schools. Each student, each staff member, each school, each diocese has their own data trail that needs to be maintained, managed, reported on and analysed. Catholic Schools NSW has a broad and…

Security

Demystifying Zero Trust

Cyber security attacks are getting more frequent and sophisticated. They’re also increasing in scale. Add this to an unprecedented increase in employees working from home, and you have a situation that will challenge even the best IT security professionals.

All Industries

Three ways technology has empowered frontline workers

COVID-19 has highlighted how much we depend on frontline workers – from the nurses and doctors we applauded from balconies as they returned home from shifts through to the delivery workers who brought us groceries and essential items when we were unable to leave home.

Security

Insider Risk Management

Learn more about how to detect, identify, and act on potential risks in your organization with insider risk management, a Microsoft 365 solution.

Education

Early warning is the first line of defence against cyber gangs

Newcastle Grammar School ICT manager, Michael Browning, logged into his monitoring dashboard one Saturday morning and watched as all his security alerts switched one-by-one to red. He realised, to his horror, the school was being hacked and its data was being encrypted. There was a particular alert coming up on a whole bunch of servers that just…

Education

Catholic Education Canberra & Goulburn transforms lives with Catalyst professional learning

With the goal of transforming lives through learning, Catholic Education in the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn (CECG), embarked on a journey to implement and embed high impact teaching practice in every classroom. In January 2021 CECG launched a system-wide professional learning program, known as Catalyst, for the 2,500 teachers working in 56 Catholic schools…

Security

Insider Risks – What are they and how can we mitigate them?

Learn more about Insider Threats, what they are, and how they can appear before briefly covering the capability that Microsoft offers to provide visibility and mitigate those threats.

Security

DLP – What is it and how does it work in the Microsoft Stack?

We look at DLP is more generally and how it works with M365 – this will be covered over an additional few articles and will walk through some of the other features and how these can be applied.

Security

Information Protection – Applying Sensitivity Labels in M365

We define Sensitivity labels and Sensitive Information Types, how they relate to each other, how they are created, and the elements that each sensitive information type consists of.

Security

Protecting your Data – Sensitivity Labels, and Sensitive Information Types

We will cover some of the core concepts- Protecting your data, and run through how we can apply some of these protective controls to a classified piece of data with Sensitivity Labels in Office 365.

Security

Microsoft Information Protection and Governance 101

We define Sensitivity labels and Sensitive Information Types, how they relate to each other, how they are created, and the elements that each sensitive information type consists of.

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