In today’s digital landscape, cybersecurity is paramount. At Mesoform, we work with clients across various industries to help them navigate the complexities of security when selecting productivity suites. Choosing between Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 is one of the biggest decisions organisations make in this area, with each platform offering its unique approach to protecting data, user identities, and systems. In this blog, we’ll dive into the key differences in security between each platform and analyse how they handle threats and support today’s security best practices.
In the rapidly evolving world of cybersecurity, even industry giants can falter. The recent Storm-0558 security breach at Microsoft underscored the growing complexities of defending against sophisticated cyber threats. As artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates the evolution of cyberattacks, 2025 must be the year organisations prioritise strengthening their cybersecurity frameworks.
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This month's thoughts are around:
- Unused resource management on The Cloud
- The cost of operations for startups
- Are your IT services portable?
This month's thoughts are around:
- Digital rights management and open source
- Protecting your business against service downtime
- Trusted computing on Cloud infrastructure
This blog is on the importance of automated compliance enforcement and will discuss how Mesoform implemented it despite facing challenges. Making use of multiple technologies to secure your IT.
This blog is on the importance of having a centralised SIEM and will discuss how Mesoform created it despite facing challenges. Making use of multiple technologies to secure your IT.
What we mean by "operations," has changed over the years and some ambiguity has resulted from the pace of change. I'd like to discuss some of these changes.
Firstly, let me explain why I believe I know a little on the subject. I want to invite you to come back in time to the Technology Management Centre for a large Telco in the early 00s where a young man has just sat down for his first day on the job and his supervisor, Spencer hands him a drive bay (hot desking was serious business here) and says, "I recommend you do a stage 1 install of Gentoo because it'll will be a good learning exercise to set up the Operaing System from scratch. Then, when you're done, we'll go over this script I'm working on to automate some tests on our new Cisco 10K routers."
I'd never compiled an operating system before that point, so we never made it to the script but it was the first time in my career when I was suddenly plunged into a world of highly skilled engineers and architects, simply doing some amazing things under very tight requirements and needing to be "DevOps", just to ensure their success. Scripting and automating tests, building our own configuration management system, measuring everything that moved, working cross-functionally, high collaboration and information sharing across teams were all just the norm. We'd also virtualised our environments and were even running containers in production over ten years ago.
From that point, my work career continued in much the same way. Sure, there has been some challenges trying to help some people see the vision but now there is a DevOps community and a wealth of literature, those challenges mostly went away and the approach was less about pushing an agenda to simply agreeing with peoples ideas as they embraced the philosophies as well.
Where did it all start
For several years, cloud computing has been the focus of IT decision makers and corporate bean counters, but the extremely security-conscious have been hesitant to move their data and workloads into the cloud. Now, with the underlying technology behind cloud services available for deployment inside organizations, a new model of cloud computing is gaining a foothold in business: the hybrid cloud.
WHAT IS HYBRID CLOUD?
