Articles on technology leadership, cyber security, infrastructure, education technology, homelabs and the Townsville technology community.

Following the drums: Townsville's Full Moon Drum Circle

A family evening at Townsville's Full Moon Drum Circle brings back memories of filming Alex Salvador and Luke Anear at TEDxTownsville in 2015.

How Australian education runs security operations, and what boards should ask next (Part 4)

WA Education, Brisbane Catholic Education and independent schools show different ways to combine assessment, a SOC and managed response, and what schools still own.

Paying for improvement, not another report: getting results from school cyber security spend (Part 3)

Why schools should judge cyber security spending by what measurably improves between audits, with indicative costs for testing, workshops and managed support.

What school boards need to see: cyber governance, legal duties and evidence (Part 2)

How Australian school boards and councils can oversee cyber risk: which privacy and governance obligations apply, and the evidence worth asking for.

The Friday afternoon call: why a school cyber audit is not a response plan (Part 1)

A recent Perth school breach shows why schools need independent assurance and someone able to act between audits, including after hours.

Completing Ubiquiti's UniFi Wireless Admin course

What two days of Ubiquiti Wireless Admin training in Townsville reinforced about planning Wi-Fi around the people and devices using it.

From the archive: my network upgrade proposal

A lightly edited and anonymised network upgrade proposal from around 2016, showing the problems, options and costs behind a not-for-profit's first managed Wi-Fi rollout.