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How to Get Your First Upwork Client as an IT Consultant
I took the call from a car parked next to a gravel pit somewhere in rural Romania, because my friend was late and I had a ten-thousand-dollar-a-month conversation scheduled. It worked anyway. That call won me my first Upwork client as an IT consultant and kicked off...
Cybersecurity Career Change After 40 – What Actually Works in 2026
So do you want to do cybersecurity career change after 40? I don't have good news for you. A single junior IT opening now pulls in hundreds of applications. Not dozens. Hundreds. That is the market in 2026. The pandemic ended, company budgets shifted, AI arrived, and...
How I Test Intune and Microsoft 365 Policies Without Breaking Production
It is 3 in the afternoon. You push one Conditional Access policy. You assigned it to All Users because the pilot group felt like extra work, and the policy requires a compliant device. Except for a few items, nothing in this tenant is enrolled yet. Ninety seconds...
What Does a Cybersecurity Specialist Actually Do All Day?
Black screen. Green text falling down it. Someone typing at the speed of ligh, who after ten seconds announces: "I am in." Ask what does a cybersecurity specialist actually do and that scene is the picture most people have. It describes maybe one percent of...
Microsoft 365 Business Premium Security Settings You Should Enable
in roughly 90 percent of the Microsoft 365 tenants I audit, the same five settings are switched off or misconfigured. Not exotic ones. Not settings that need a consultant and a six-week project. These are Microsoft 365 Business Premium security settings that...
Microsoft 365 Tenant Handover Checklist – What to Check on Day One
Every environment I inherit gets the same Microsoft 365 tenant handover checklist before I change a single setting. Not because I am a pedant - I am not - but because I want to know where I stand. And because from the day you start, whatever eventually...