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Why secure IT doesn’t have to be complicated. Explainers, perspectives and news from the Just Software team.

Articles

Why secure IT doesn’t have to be complicated. Explainers, perspectives and news from the Just Software team.
A straight dotted path blocked by a locked gate, and a worn path curving around it to a red point: when security is hard, people find a way around.

Perspective

If security is hard, people will work around it

Security that ignores the people using it doesn’t make you safer. It makes people find workarounds. Why we start with the user, and what that means in practice.

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5 min read

A shield with a Wi-Fi symbol, ringed by EU stars, with a certificate carrying a red seal: network access under NIS2 and DORA.

Explainer

NIS2 and DORA: what they mean for Wi-Fi access and certificates

NIS2 and DORA don’t mention Wi-Fi, but they require unique identities, access control and certificate management. Here’s what that means for your network.

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8 min read

A burndown chart of shrinking blue bars with a line stepping down to zero, briefly bumping up at a red point where a finding came back.

Explainer

From backlog to burndown: running a remediation project in Azure

A list of four hundred findings is not a plan. Here's how to turn a governance backlog into something a team can finish, and prove it's finished.

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5 min read

Three rising bars marked with one, two and three dots, with a trend line climbing above them: a baseline raised one level at a time.

Explainer

Level 1, 2, 3: building a governance baseline you can actually reach

Security benchmarks start you at hundreds of failures. A ladder of levels gives your team a target it can finish, and a trend line that proves progress.

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5 min read

A grid of blue squares with one singled out by a red target: an exception that is visible and tracked, not lost in the estate.

Explainer

Exceptions are part of governance, not a failure of it

Every real Azure estate has resources that break the rules on purpose. How you record those deviations decides whether your dashboard means anything.

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5 min read

Scattered dots on one side and an ordered list on the other, with one item flagged red: loose recommendations turned into tracked decisions.

Perspective

Azure Advisor tells you what’s wrong. It doesn’t tell you what you’ve decided.

Most Azure tenants already have free tools that find problems. Most organizations still can’t answer whether they’re in good shape. Detection was never the hard part.

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4 min read

Tangled lines that resolve into one straight line ending at a red point: a tool should take complexity away, not add to it.

Perspective

IT tools should remove work, not add it

Most insecure IT setups aren’t caused by ignorance. They exist because the secure option was too much work. That’s the problem we build our products to fix.

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4 min read

A Wi-Fi symbol connected to five documents, four checked and one rejected: each device is let in, or kept out, on its own certificate.

Explainer

Certificates vs. passwords: how certificate-based Wi-Fi works

Certificate-based Wi-Fi (EAP-TLS) gives every device its own identity, with nothing to phish or type. Here’s how it works and what you need.

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4 min read

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