Who publishes IT Pro Insights

IT Pro Insights is an independent, one-person technical publication. It is written, edited, and published by Thorsteinn Halldorsson, a Senior Cloud Engineer with 25+ years of hands-on experience across the datacenter-to-cloud stack.

That is what "we" means on this site: there is no newsroom behind it, no agency, and no anonymous content team. Every article is published under his byline, and the full archive is browsable by topic from the site navigation.

The site is self-funded and runs on Microsoft Azure in the EU (West Europe region). It earns revenue from display advertising. No affiliate links are currently used; if any are introduced they will be disclosed on the page they appear on. Advertising does not decide what gets covered or what gets recommended — recommendations are made on technical merit.

What we cover, and who it's for

The audience is the person who actually operates the platform: administrators, cloud and platform engineers, DevOps practitioners, consultants, and security teams. Articles assume you have a job to finish, so they lead with a summary and then get to the configuration.

  • Azure — architecture, governance, networking, identity, and cost control
  • Microsoft 365 — Entra, Intune, Purview, Teams, SharePoint, and Copilot
  • Security — Zero Trust, identity hardening, Defender, and Sentinel
  • DevOps & automation — GitHub Actions, Terraform, Bicep, and PowerShell
  • Kubernetes — AKS, ingress, policy, and production hardening

Each article is labelled beginner, intermediate, or advanced, and shows an estimated reading time, so you can judge the fit before you commit to it.

How our articles are made

Drafts are produced with AI assistance, and every article is researched against authoritative sources and run through automated quality and fact gates. Articles are then published on a schedule under Thorsteinn's byline; he can hold or unpublish any of them and corrects errors through the corrections page. The full process — sourcing, version pinning, review, cadence, and how superseded articles are handled — is set out in the editorial policy, and corrections explains how to report an error and how fixes are marked.

Get in touch

Questions, corrections, and topic requests all go to the same place: the contact page. Details of what we collect and why are in the privacy policy, and the site's terms of use cover what you may do with what you find here.