Archives
- 04 Oct Beyond the Essential Eight: cybersecurity governance for Australian schools
- 02 Oct Cyber security careers in Townsville: local opportunities and the next step
- 27 Sep Nick and Nicholas Townsville: the Google experiment is moving
- 27 Sep Following the drums: Townsville's Full Moon Drum Circle
- 26 Sep How Australian education runs security operations, and what boards should ask next (Part 4)
- 26 Sep Paying for improvement, not another report: getting results from school cyber security spend (Part 3)
- 26 Sep What school boards need to see: cyber governance, legal duties and evidence (Part 2)
- 26 Sep The Friday afternoon call: why a school cyber audit is not a response plan (Part 1)
- 25 Sep Completing Ubiquiti's UniFi Wireless Admin course
- 23 Sep From the archive: my network upgrade proposal
- 23 Sep The Ubiquiti UAP that won me over
- 23 Sep Three days of Ubiquiti training in Townsville: completing URSCA
- 17 Sep UTS’s network upgrade: buying a platform, keeping control (Part 2)
- 17 Sep UTS’s network upgrade: the decisions that outlast the rollout (Part 1)
- 14 Sep Ubiquiti training is coming to Townsville, and here's the backstory
- 14 Sep Cyber security in Townsville: training, jobs, businesses and what is missing
- 14 Sep Townsville was going to be a cyber security hub. What happened?
- 12 Sep Nicholas Townsville: now I'm competing with a brewery
- 12 Sep School marketing in the age of AI: do we need students' faces?
- 12 Sep Australia's privacy reforms: what is changing and when
- 12 Sep How independent schools should govern technology approvals
- 11 Sep Remembering Townsville's Great Northern Hotel
- 05 Sep From one bar to better coverage: regional connectivity in North Queensland
- 05 Sep The latest Plex security update is a reminder to check what's installed at work
- 31 Aug Service doesn't always happen on a stage
- 31 Aug Testing your defences and preparing to fail safely, AI included
- 30 Aug North Queensland Cyber Watch: a Townsville gym data breach reaches serving police officers
- 29 Aug From Trivy to GitHub: how the TeamPCP supply-chain attacks spread, and what we can do about it
- 29 Aug The AFP didn't name the software: what was behind the TeamPCP supply-chain attacks
- 27 Aug The problem with being called Nick in Townsville
- 24 Aug North Queensland Cyber Watch: Storm names Westco Motors Cairns in ransomware claim
- 24 Aug Agentic AI and your attack surface: what to ask before connecting one
- 21 Aug Free Townsville workshop: AI & Cyber Skills Every Small Business Needs
- 21 Aug North Queensland Cyber Watch: Oz Hair & Beauty confirms customer data was accessed
- 17 Aug The digital divide isn't closing on its own: what the 2025 Australian Digital Inclusion Index means for North Queensland
- 17 Aug AI is changing cyber security — but the fundamentals still matter
- 16 Aug Announced, welcomed, then refused: what happened to Townsville's $42.1m affordable housing precinct?
- 14 Aug If you work in tech, your own .id.au domain just makes sense
- 14 Aug North Queensland Cyber Watch: Nick Scali takes systems offline after cyber incident
- 14 Aug What cyber security jobs were advertised across North Queensland in 2025–26?
- 11 Aug Why I still take on cyber security consulting work in Townsville, outside the day job
- 10 Aug Queensland is paying for cyber security and AI training right now — here's what's actually on offer
- 10 Aug Secure by design: the principles behind every good cyber security decision
- 09 Aug Can they email as me? Building a free domain spoofing check
- 06 Aug ASD's frontier AI guidance for boards — it's not just for ASX 200 directors
- 03 Aug Five cyber security podcasts I keep coming back to
- 03 Aug Asset security and identity: know what you have, and who can reach it
- 02 Aug North Queensland Cyber Watch: ransomware hits Townsville Christian College
- 30 Jul Townsville Computer Man is back — and yes, I started this in Year 12 with Notepad
- 29 Jul The CIA Triad: the foundation every cyber security decision sits on
- 27 Jul Why I built a free cyber security check for businesses and charities
- 25 Jul Why SFIA makes technical job advertisements clearer
- 19 Jul What Aon's 2026 risk report tells independent schools about cyber resilience
- 19 Jul Townsville computer stores — remembering the past and making the case for what comes next
- 04 Jul Practical cyber security for small organisations
- 03 Jul North Queensland Cyber Watch: a quiet auto-forwarding rule becomes a notifiable data breach
- 19 Jun North Queensland Cyber Watch: ransomware halts a major Queensland sugar mill
- 13 May North Queensland Cyber Watch: Townsville schools caught in the global Canvas breach
- 24 Oct Home Lab Progress
- 07 Aug NickOsullivan.id.au/Blog has moved
- 07 Aug Automating my Home Lab
- 30 Jul Welcome to the new Site