Introducing AuswideCyber

If you've landed here before, you might remember a different site. Australia Wide Cybersecurity Services was an IT consultancy offering Cyber Security services, with a quote form and a list of things I could sell you. That site is gone, and it's not coming back in that form.

This one is different. There's no pricing page. There's no "book a call" button chasing you around the screen. What you'll find instead is a running collection of things I've learned, seen, and occasionally laughed at, in the world of IT and Cyber Security for Australian small and medium businesses.

Why bother

Most small business owners get one of two things when it comes to Cyber Security. Either they get sold fear, a wall of statistics about ransomware designed to scare them into signing something. Or they get nothing at all, because nobody's bothered explaining it to them in a way that doesn't sound like it was written for an enterprise with a dedicated security team and a budget to match.

I wanted somewhere in between. Plain English, real experiences, no pitch at the end. If something here is useful to you, great. If it saves you from a bad decision or a worse phishing email, even better. That's the whole model. Build something worth bookmarking, not something you close the tab on after five seconds.

Who's writing this

I've been in IT and Cyber Security for a long time, most of it working directly with SMBs who don't have the luxury of an internal IT department. These days I work at a Managed Service Provider. A bit of digging on LinkedIn will tell you which one, so I won't pretend otherwise. I'm not going to name them here, and I'm not going to use this site to talk about their clients, good or bad. What I write here is my own observations, my own opinions, and my own war stories from years in the trenches.

Does working at an MSP overlap with running a Cyber Security commentary site? Sure, a bit. But this isn't a funnel for that business, and I'm not interested in pretending the overlap doesn't exist. I'd rather tell you upfront than have you work it out later and wonder what else I wasn't saying.

What to expect

Expect posts on the stuff that actually trips businesses up: dodgy invoices that almost worked, why "we'll get to backups eventually" is a sentence I hear far too often, AI tools that are quietly reshaping how small businesses operate, and the occasional story from the field that's funnier in hindsight than it was at the time.

No fixed schedule, no content calendar I'm slave to. I'll write when there's something worth saying.

If that sounds like your kind of reading, stick around.