Podcasts about solutions architecture

In this episode of MeriTalking, MeriTalk's Gail Emery chats with George Teas, Vice President of Solutions Architecture at Elastic, about the Federal zero trust journey. As agencies move from crawl to run, they face mounting challenges with visibility, interoperability, and scalability. Teas shares insights on how agencies can harness data across the five pillars of […]

On this week's show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week's cybersecurity news: Oracle quietly cops to being hacked, but immediately pivots into pretending it didn't matter NSA and CyberCom leaders fired for not being MAGA enough US Treasury had some dusty corners it hadn't found China in yet, looked, found China in them …which is a great time to discuss slashing CISA's staffing Ransomware crews and bullet proof hosting providers are getting rekt, and we love it And Microsoft patches yet another logging 0-day being used in the wild. This episode is sponsored by Yubico, makers of Yubikey hardware authentication tokens. Yubico's Vice President of Solutions Architecture and Alliances Derek Hanson joins to discuss how the consumer-centric passkey ecosystem has become a real challenge for enterprises. One that Yubico is actually ideally positioned to solve. This episode is also available on Youtube. Show notes Oracle privately confirms Cloud breach to customers Oracle have finally issued a written notification to customers about their cybersecurity incident. Head of NSA and US Cyber Command reportedly fired | Cybersecurity Dive Trump fires numerous National Security Council staff - The Washington Post Trump administration under scrutiny as it puts major round of CISA cuts on the table | Cybersecurity Dive Hackers Spied on US Bank Regulators' Emails for Over a Year - Bloomberg This is how Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the Signal chat Cybercriminals are trying to loot Australian pension accounts in new campaign | The Record from Recorded Future News $500,000 stolen in Australian super fund data breach | Superannuation | The Guardian Australian regulator pulls licenses of 95 companies in effort to crack down on investment scams | The Record from Recorded Future News Everest ransomware group's darknet site offline following defacement | The Record from Recorded Future News On March 28, 2025, a threat actor leaked internal data from Medialand, a major bulletproof hosting (BPH) provider long linked to Yalishanda (LARVA-34). There's a ransomware group named DragonForce going around hacking its rivals. After Mamona and BlackLock, the group has now hacked RansomHub The DragonForce ransomware group hacked two rivals this month CISA, experts warn of Crush file transfer attacks as ransomware gang makes threats | The Record from Recorded Future News Kill Security Campaign Targets CrushFTP Servers National Vulnerability Database | NIST Microsoft patches zero-day actively exploited in string of ransomware attacks | CyberScoop Exploitation of CLFS zero-day leads to ransomware activity | Microsoft Security Blog Is The Sofistication In The Room With Us? - X-Forwarded-For and Ivanti Connect Secure (CVE-2025-22457)

January 20, 2025: Christian Boucher, Head of Healthcare Strategy and Solutions Architecture at Island, Joins Drex for the News. Can healthcare organizations ensure patient data remains secure without stifling productivity? How do enterprises navigate the challenge of "Bring Your Own AI" and the risks of browser vulnerabilities? What role does human behavior play as IT security's weakest link? Through stories of AI misconfigurations, multimillion-dollar fines, and shadow IT's well meaning workarounds, this conversation doesnt shy away from the complexities of balancing accessibility, security, and user needs.Key Points:01:41 Optum AI Chatbot Breach07:22 Mount Nittany and Online Tracking10:53 Humans: IT Security's Weakest LinkNews Articles:Optum Restricts AI Chatbot Access After Security Breach ConcernsMount Nittany Health Faces $1.8 Million Settlement Over Patient Data MisuseHuman Error: The Overlooked Threat in Cybersecurity StrategiesSubscribe: This Week HealthTwitter: This Week HealthLinkedIn: Week HealthDonate: Alex's Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer

VP of Global Solutions Architecture at eSentire Tia Hopkins shares her career journey and talks about its beginnings in engineering and pivots into cybersecurity leadership. Tia shares how she liked to take things apart when she was young, including the brand new computer her mother bought her and how she was fascinated by all the pieces of it spread all across her bedroom floor. As she started studying engineering, Tia learned she was more of a technologist than an engineer. Tia got her start in technology without completing her formal education by what she says is "grit and right place, right time." Once she was in a management role, Tia wanted to validate her knowledge, experience, and ability and not only completed her bachelor's degree, but also two master's degrees. Tia recently started an organization to encourage and grow interest, confidence, and leaders of women of color in the field of cybersecurity. We thank Tia for sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

VP of Global Solutions Architecture at eSentire Tia Hopkins shares her career journey and talks about its beginnings in engineering and pivots into cybersecurity leadership. Tia shares how she liked to take things apart when she was young, including the brand new computer her mother bought her and how she was fascinated by all the pieces of it spread all across her bedroom floor. As she started studying engineering, Tia learned she was more of a technologist than an engineer. Tia got her start in technology without completing her formal education by what she says is "grit and right place, right time." Once she was in a management role, Tia wanted to validate her knowledge, experience, and ability and not only completed her bachelor's degree, but also two master's degrees. Tia recently started an organization to encourage and grow interest, confidence, and leaders of women of color in the field of cybersecurity. We thank Tia for sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can businesses navigate the challenges of IT unpredictability and ensure operational continuity in an ever-evolving tech landscape? In today's episode of Tech Talks Daily, I'm joined by Geoff Hixon, VP of Solutions Architecture at Lakeside Software, to explore how data-driven strategies are reshaping IT resilience and recovery. Geoff shares his experiences in supporting Lakeside customers during the CrowdStrike global IT outage, including insights into the rapid recovery process for a global airline and a multinational oil and gas company. Geoff also provides an exclusive preview of Lakeside Software's highly anticipated IT Resilience report, offering valuable insights into how organizations can transition from reactive to proactive and eventually autonomous IT management. By focusing on real-time data collection and visibility, he highlights the importance of identifying issues before they escalate and shares how enhanced data insights can prevent costly errors—like a bank's multimillion-pound oversight caused by missing a simple cable requirement. Additionally, we discuss the role of AI in the journey toward autonomous IT, where routine support tasks are automated to free up IT teams for more strategic initiatives. Geoff illustrates how Lakeside's approach helps organizations build trust in automation through step-by-step implementation and testing, paving the way for self-healing IT systems. Tune in to discover how forward-thinking organizations can harness the power of data, automation, and proactive strategies to build IT systems that are not only resilient but also prepared for the challenges of tomorrow. Wha

Podcast: Error Code (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: EP 51: Hacking High-Performance Race CarsPub date: 2024-12-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhen we think of IoT, we first think of our smart light bulbs, our smart TVs, our smart baby monitors. However, we don't typically associate IoT with high-performance race cars, and yet they collect terabytes of data each race. Austin Allen, Director of Solutions Architecture at Airlock Digital, discusses the growing presence of smart devices and the responsibility of securing them—should it be the developers who write the code, or the individuals who implement it?The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Robert Vamosi, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

When we think of IoT, we first think of our smart light bulbs, our smart TVs, our smart baby monitors. However, we don't typically associate IoT with high-performance race cars, and yet they collect terabytes of data each race. Austin Allen, Director of Solutions Architecture at Airlock Digital, discusses the growing presence of smart devices and the responsibility of securing them—should it be the developers who write the code, or the individuals who implement it?

Use Cases of Generative AI – What are the Risks? Hosts - Sharon Lorman, Vice President, The Kafafian Group, Inc.         Jeff Marsico, President, The Kafafian Group, Inc.         Ben Crowley, Managing Director, The Kafafian Group, Inc. Guests - Chris Clements, VP of Solutions Architecture, CISO Global         Tigran Safari, Solutions Architect and Client Experience Manager, CISO Global

Corey Quinn chats with Miles Ward, CTO of SADA, about SADA's recent acquisition by Insight and its impact on scaling the company's cloud services. Ward explains how Insight's backing allows SADA to take on more complex projects, such as multi-cloud migrations and data center transitions. They also discuss AI's growing role in business, the challenges of optimizing cloud AI costs, and the differences between cloud-to-cloud and data center migrations. Corey and Miles also share their takes on domain registrars and Corey gives a glimpse into his Raspberry Pi Kubernetes setup.Show Highlights(00:00) Intro(00:48) Backblaze sponsor read(2:04) Google's support of SADA being acquired by Insight(2:44) How the skills SADA invested in affects the cases they accept (5:14) Why it's easier to migrate from one cloud to another than from data center to cloud(7:06) Customer impact from the Broadcom pricing changes(10:40) The current cost of AI(13:55) Why the scale of AI makes it difficult to understand its current business impact(15:43) The challenges of monetizing AI(17:31) Micro and macro scale perspectives of AI(21:16) Amazon's new habit of slowly killing of services(26:55) Corey's policy to never use a domain registrar with the word “daddy” in their name(32:46) Where to find more from Miles and SADAAbout Miles WardAs Chief Technology Officer at SADA, Miles Ward leads SADA's cloud strategy and solutions capabilities. His remit includes delivering next-generation solutions to challenges in big data and analytics, application migration, infrastructure automation, and cost optimization; reinforcing our engineering culture; and engaging with customers on their most complex and ambitious plans around Google Cloud.Previously, Miles served as Director and Global Lead for Solutions at Google Cloud. He founded the Google Cloud's Solutions Architecture practice, launched hundreds of solutions, built Style-Detection and Hummus AI APIs, built CloudHero, designed the pricing and TCO calculators, and helped thousands of customers like Twitter who migrated the world's largest Hadoop cluster to public cloud and Audi USA who re-platformed to k8s before it was out of alpha, and helped Banco Itau design the intercloud architecture for the bank of the future.Before Google, Miles helped build the AWS Solutions Architecture team. He wrote the first AWS Well-Architected framework, proposed Trusted Advisor and the Snowmobile, invented GameDay, worked as a core part of the Obama for America 2012 “tech” team, helped NASA stream the Curiosity Mars Rover landing, and rebooted Skype in a pinch.Earning his Bachelor of Science in Rhetoric and Media Studies from Willamette University, Miles is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur who also plays a mean electric sousaphone.LinksProfessional site: https://sada.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milesward/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mileswardSponsorBackblaze: https://www.backblaze.com/   

Michael welcomes Huthaifa Khan, Director, Solutions Architecture with Virtual Health. Huthaifa, a veteran health care professional, discusses the emergence and rapid adoption of the FHIR standard in healthcare data exchange, along with implementation stories, and its potential future in the industry. 

In this Screaming in the Cloud Replay, we're revisiting our conversation with Miles War — perhaps the closest thing Google Cloud has to Corey Quinn. With a wit and sharpness at hand, and an entire backup retinue of trumpets, trombones, and various brass horns, Miles is here to join the conversation about what all is going on at Google Cloud. Miles breaks down SADA and their partnership with Google Cloud. He goes into some details on what GCP has been up to, and talks about the various areas they are capitulating forward. Miles talks about working with Thomas Kurian, who is the only who counts since he follows Corey on Twitter, and the various profundities that GCP has at hand.Show Highlights:(0:00) Intro(1:38) Sonrai Security sponsor read(2:40) Reliving Google Cloud Next 2021(7:24) Unlikable, yet necessary change at Google(11:41) Lack of Focus in the Cloud(18:03) Google releases benefitting developers(20:57) The rise of distributed databases(24:12) Backblaze sponsor read(24:41) Arguments for (and against) going multi-cloud(26:49) The problem with Google Cloud outages(33:01) Data transfer fees(37:49) Where you can find more from MilesAbout Miles WardAs Chief Technology Officer at SADA, Miles Ward leads SADA's cloud strategy and solutions capabilities. His remit includes delivering next-generation solutions to challenges in big data and analytics, application migration, infrastructure automation, and cost optimization; reinforcing our engineering culture; and engaging with customers on their most complex and ambitious plans around Google Cloud.Previously, Miles served as Director and Global Lead for Solutions at Google Cloud. He founded the Google Cloud's Solutions Architecture practice, launched hundreds of solutions, built Style-Detection and Hummus AI APIs, built CloudHero, designed the pricing and TCO calculators, and helped thousands of customers like Twitter who migrated the world's largest Hadoop cluster to public cloud and Audi USA who re-platformed to k8s before it was out of alpha, and helped Banco Itau design the intercloud architecture for the bank of the future.Before Google, Miles helped build the AWS Solutions Architecture team. He wrote the first AWS Well-Architected framework, proposed Trusted Advisor and the Snowmobile, invented GameDay, worked as a core part of the Obama for America 2012 “tech” team, helped NASA stream the Curiosity Mars Rover landing, and rebooted Skype in a pinch.Earning his Bachelor of Science in Rhetoric and Media Studies from Willamette University, Miles is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur who also plays a mean electric sousaphone.Links:SADA.com: https://sada.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/mileswardEmail: miles@sada.comOriginal episode:https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/gcp-s-many-profundities-with-miles-ward/SponsorsSonrai Security: sonrai.co/access24Backblaze: backblaze.com 

August 26, 2024: Christian Boucher, head of Healthcare Strategy and Solutions Architecture at Island joins Drex for the news. The discussion delves into pressing issues such as North Korean IT workers covertly accessing U.S. company data. How can hospitals better prepare for tech outages that threaten business continuity and patient care? As Boucher shares his extensive experience in healthcare IT, the conversation challenges listeners to reconsider the traditional approaches to security and continuity.Key Points:03:11 Undercover North Korean IT Workers' Busted04:35 Discussion on Remote Work and Security07:43 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery12:44 USPS Text Scam and Cybersecurity Awareness19:16 Conclusion and Final ThoughtsNews articles:US dismantles laptop farm used by undercover North Korean IT workersTech outage fallout: Hospitals need strong response plans when systems go downUSPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their OperationThis Week Health SubscribeThis Week Health TwitterThis Week Health LinkedinAlex's Lemonade Stand: Foundation for Childhood Cancer Donate

We talk vehicle cybersecurity with Jason Masker, Director of Solutions Architecture for Upstream talks who joins host John Heinlein, Ph.D., Chief Marketing Officer of Sonatus. This discussion highlights the evolving (and challenging!) landscape of vehicle cyber threats.  Jason explains what Upstream is doing about that threat, empowering OEMS with solutions and how collaboration with high quality data sources can improve the ability to detect threats quickly.

In this highly informative episode, we share strategies and best practices for driving growth for SaaS companies featuring Kulwinder Kalsi, head of UK and Ireland Enterprise Software and SaaS Architecture and Johan Broman, Head of Solutions Architecture for Independent Software Vendors for Europe, Middle East & Africa.Topics Include:Discover the main expectations end customers have of SaaS companies, including frictionless tenant onboarding, instrumentation/monitoring, pricing transparency, and focusing on core innovation.Explore key trends shaping the SaaS industry, such as the shift towards consumption-based pricing models, complex pricing strategies that align packaging with customer segments, and leveraging other software partners to remove undifferentiated heavy lifting.Learn how AWS can help SaaS companies with its global infrastructure, robust security measures, and rich ecosystem of services and partners to accelerate growth and innovation.Get insights into monetizing data strategies that SaaS companies can adopt to unlock additional revenue streams from their tenant data.Understand the different ways AWS partners, including systems integrators, professional services, and other software vendors, can support SaaS companies through their journey.Receive practical advice on approaching cloud migration and modernization, including aligning leadership, assessing growth vs. retention goals, and choosing the right mix of lift-and-shift or full modernization.Gain a nuanced perspective on developing AI solutions, covering use case identification, model selection, deployment techniques like prompt engineering and fine-tuning, and the importance of monitoring and management.Hear expert tips on navigating the rapidly evolving generative AI landscape, leveraging AWS services like SageMaker and Bedrock, and utilizing specialized AI chips like Trainium and Inferentia.

In a rapidly evolving data center industry, cooling technologies are finally taking center stage, driven by the rise of AI and other high-density computing needs. In the latest episode of Straight Outta Crumpton, Saqib Ashraf, Director of Solutions Architecture at CPG, shares insights on the future of data centers as well as the challenges facing the industry. Host Greg Crumpton engages Ashraf in a conversation that delves into the impact of supply chain issues, the importance of robust cooling systems, and the increasing focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations.As data centers continue to grow in size and complexity, the industry must adapt to accommodate higher power densities and implement sustainable practices. Ashraf's perspective offers a glimpse into the future of data centers, where cooling solutions and ESG commitments will play a crucial role in shaping the industry's direction.

Guest: Steve Orrin, Federal CTO, Intel Corporation [@intel]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sorrin/____________________________Host: Sean Martin, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast [@RedefiningCyber]On ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/sean-martinView This Show's Sponsors___________________________Episode NotesIn this episode of the Redefining Cybersecurity Podcast, host Sean Martin is joined by Steve Orrin, Federal Chief Technology Officer at Intel Corporation, to delve into the intricacies of solutions architecture within the cybersecurity realm. The discussion bridges the often-separate worlds of business architecture and infrastructure with security architecture and infrastructure, arguing that these elements are fundamentally intertwined.Steve Orrin shares his extensive background in cybersecurity, highlighting his journey from leading multiple security startups to his current role at Intel, where he focuses on integrating technology to enhance government and enterprise systems. His experience underscores the importance of developing innovative security solutions that not only address current problems but anticipate future challenges.A central theme of the conversation is the concept of operationalizing cybersecurity measures to ensure they are effective and manageable. Orrin emphasizes the need for solutions that are not overly complex or burdensome, which can lead to them being unused or ineffective. This point segues into an exploration of the evolution of mainframe systems to today's distributed computing environments. Orrin and Martin discuss how lessons from the past can inform current practices, particularly in creating resilient and secure systems.Further, the dialogue covers the potential for cybersecurity practices to catalyze business innovation. Rather than viewing security measures solely as a risk management tool, Orrin posits that proactive security planning can enable new business capabilities and efficiencies. This perspective is elaborated through examples, such as leveraging cloud services and multi-factor authentication to improve business scalability and resilience.Lastly, the conversation touches on the broader implications of fostering a security-aware culture within organizations. By aligning security objectives with business goals and embracing a proactive approach to cybersecurity, Orrin suggests that companies can not only protect against threats but also unlock new growth opportunities. Listeners are left with a comprehensive overview of how integrating cybersecurity into solution architecture can not only mitigate risks but also drive business innovation and efficiency.Key Questions AddressedHow can integrating cybersecurity into solution architecture drive business innovation and growth?In what ways can lessons from the past, like mainframe security, inform current cybersecurity practices to create more resilient systems?How does operationalizing cybersecurity measures contribute to enhanced efficiency and scalability within organizations?___________________________Watch this and other videos on ITSPmagazine's YouTube ChannelRedefining CyberSecurity Podcast with Sean Martin, CISSP playlist:

Guest: Steve Orrin, Federal CTO, Intel Corporation [@intel]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sorrin/____________________________Host: Sean Martin, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast [@RedefiningCyber]On ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/sean-martinView This Show's Sponsors___________________________Episode NotesIn this episode of the Redefining Cybersecurity Podcast, host Sean Martin is joined by Steve Orrin, Federal Chief Technology Officer at Intel Corporation, to delve into the intricacies of solutions architecture within the cybersecurity realm. The discussion bridges the often-separate worlds of business architecture and infrastructure with security architecture and infrastructure, arguing that these elements are fundamentally intertwined.Steve Orrin shares his extensive background in cybersecurity, highlighting his journey from leading multiple security startups to his current role at Intel, where he focuses on integrating technology to enhance government and enterprise systems. His experience underscores the importance of developing innovative security solutions that not only address current problems but anticipate future challenges.A central theme of the conversation is the concept of operationalizing cybersecurity measures to ensure they are effective and manageable. Orrin emphasizes the need for solutions that are not overly complex or burdensome, which can lead to them being unused or ineffective. This point segues into an exploration of the evolution of mainframe systems to today's distributed computing environments. Orrin and Martin discuss how lessons from the past can inform current practices, particularly in creating resilient and secure systems.Further, the dialogue covers the potential for cybersecurity practices to catalyze business innovation. Rather than viewing security measures solely as a risk management tool, Orrin posits that proactive security planning can enable new business capabilities and efficiencies. This perspective is elaborated through examples, such as leveraging cloud services and multi-factor authentication to improve business scalability and resilience.Lastly, the conversation touches on the broader implications of fostering a security-aware culture within organizations. By aligning security objectives with business goals and embracing a proactive approach to cybersecurity, Orrin suggests that companies can not only protect against threats but also unlock new growth opportunities. Listeners are left with a comprehensive overview of how integrating cybersecurity into solution architecture can not only mitigate risks but also drive business innovation and efficiency.Key Questions AddressedHow can integrating cybersecurity into solution architecture drive business innovation and growth?In what ways can lessons from the past, like mainframe security, inform current cybersecurity practices to create more resilient systems?How does operationalizing cybersecurity measures contribute to enhanced efficiency and scalability within organizations?___________________________Watch this and other videos on ITSPmagazine's YouTube ChannelRedefining CyberSecurity Podcast with Sean Martin, CISSP playlist:

In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Derek Hanson, Yubico's VP of Solutions Architecture and Alliances. Derek covers the different reasons organisations are investing in Passkeys, what organisations need to know to deploy them successfully, and warns that too often current deployments are too focused on authorisation rather than looking at the end user holistically.

In this Risky Business News sponsored interview, Tom Uren talks to Derek Hanson, Yubico's VP of Solutions Architecture and Alliances. Derek covers the different reasons organisations are investing in Passkeys, what organisations need to know to deploy them successfully, and warns that too often current deployments are too focused on authorisation rather than looking at the end user holistically.

Join Chip Stock Investor host Nick as he welcomes Derek Hanson, Vice President of Solutions Architecture and Standards at cybersecurity company Yubico. In this episode, Nick asks Derek talk about the role that hardware plays in the world of cybersecurity. They also discuss the global impact of cybercrime, estimated to cost the world economy around $10 trillion annually -- and rising! Derek explains the critical role that secure credentials play in protecting against data breaches, how Yubico's YubiKey operates as a safeguard for phishing-resistant authentication (and what phishing is in the first place), and how new cybersecurity for front-line workers is like a digital passport that protects online identity. Nick and Derek explore the differences between hardware and software in cyber security, and stress the importance of adapting to evolving threats with robust solutions like passwordless authentication. Stay tuned later this month for Chip Stock Investors "Cybersecurity Stocks 2024" manual! Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3aD-gfmHV_MhMmcwyIu1wA/join If you missed our Semiconductor Industry Flow 2024 and chip industry manual, you can purchase it here:

This week David's guest is Randy Mercer, Chief Product Officer at 1WorldSync, where he leads the Global Product Management and Solutions Architecture teams. They talk about Randy's beginnings in the space (1:51), how 1WorldSync utilizes AI to improve e-commerce performance (11:09), and the ever-increasing importance of mobile imagery to entice consumers on their path to purchase (23:42).Connect with Randy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randalmercer/Learn more: https://itsrapid.ai/Theme music: "Happy" by Mixaud - https://mixaund.bandcamp.comProducer: Jake Musiker

We are live from AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas, direct from the Expo floor, with a limited series of episodes talking to AWS leaders on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip.Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to Rohan Karmarkar, Director GSI Solutions Architecture, AWS, about two immediate themes of the conference (1) modernise to both go faster and save money (2) Amazon Q.  We talk about how these innovations impact the Customer conversation with AWS, a good customer example and catch up on what else has been announced at the show.  Finally, we have a chat about our preferred steaks and answer the most important question... sauce or no sauce? GuestRohan Karmarkar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohankarmarkar/HostsDave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/Sjoukje Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/ProductionMarcel Van Der Burg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcel-van-der-burg-99a655/Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/SoundBen Corbett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-corbett-3b6a11135/Louis Corbett:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-corbett-087250264/

In this Risky Business News sponsor interview Tom Uren talks to Derek Hanson, Yubico's VP of Solutions Architecture and Alliances about the state of authentication and what Passkeys are all about.

For this episode, The gateway will explore technology and higher education with our good friend Kirk Paille! Kirk brings over 20 years of recruitment, sales, and operations experience to his role as Director of Solutions Architecture at Collegis Education, a company enabling innovation in higher ed as thought leaders and tactical pros. During his 12-plus years at Wiley Education Services (formerly Deltak) and AVENU Learning, he led cross-functional teams to facilitate the successful launch of multiple new college and university partners, in addition to leading existing partners in the expansion of program offerings to accelerate revenue. Prior to that, he held admissions leadership roles at DeVry University Online. Kirk leverages his recruitment experience and deep understanding of the student lifecycle to enable partner universities to implement process enhancements that drive student engagement. He earned his B.S. from John Carroll University in University Heights, OH, where he played collegiate football and met his wife, Amy. Kirk and Amy live in Naperville, IL with their dog Birdie and during his free time, he is an avid college and pro football fan, takes his endless pursuit to create the perfect chicken wing very seriously, and spends countless hours trying to improve his golf game. For more information:www.collegiseducation.com

Bryan Byler, Director of Solutions Architecture at Mole Street, is here to talk about artificial intelligence—specifically, how partners can navigate the growing proliferation of AI-powered solutions and technologies. He outlines a number of use-cases that partners should consider incorporating into their work streams, tools that enable those use-cases, and how he keeps pace with the rapidly evolving AI landscape. We then move over to Mole Street's performance within the HubSpot ecosystem, and after coming in 2nd for North American Partner of the Year, Bryan shares his insights on the team's sales engine—including their digital transformation initiatives and emphasis on expanding existing client relationships. We wrap with his recommendations for how small teams can find success in HubSpot's partner program—including the resources, approaches, and GTM strategies that can yield great results.

In this week's Ask A CISO podcast, we are celebrating Horangi's anniversary! Host and Horangi CEO Paul Hajdy along with Niko, VP of Internal Security, Ivan, VP of Engineering, Lance, Senior Manager of Customer Success, and Bo Si, Director of Solutions Architecture, reflect on their journey at the company and share their insights on the future for cybersecurity. With over 30 years of combined experience between them at Horangi, the guests emphasize the increasing complexity and pace of technological advancements, the need to filter out noise and focus on critical issues, the growing demand for cybersecurity experts, and a shift towards user-friendly solutions to enable broader adoption. Tune in to listen to the conversation! -- About Horangi Cybersecurity -- More information about the Ask A CISO podcast: https://www.horangi.com/resources/ask-a-ciso-podcast About Horangi Cyber Security: https://www.horangi.com

Are you struggling to measure the impact of your marketing channels and track the origin of your leads? You're not alone! This week on The Revenue Growth Architects Podcast, Nina Valtcheva, Director of Solutions Architecture at CS2, comes back to chat about how to unravel the mystery of SFDC Campaign/Channel Tracking and help you master the art of attribution.In this information-packed episode, we'll cover:The Where/What Challenge: Discover how to track how someone got to your content and what they converted on, and learn about the different methods to set up your SFDC Campaigns for better attributionSetting Up SFDC Campaign Tracking: Dive into the process of creating SFDC Campaign Types, defining UTM values, and setting up automation to streamline your tracking and reportingReporting and Utilizing Data: Explore various reporting techniques and learn how to use the data to optimize your marketing campaigns and boost your ROI, and finally,Common pitfalls to be aware of, key monitoring strategies, and the importance of not setting and forgetting your tracking processThis episode is sure to help you take your campaign tracking skills to the next level!

In this episode, Xander is joined by CS2's Director of Solutions Architecture, Nina Valtcheva to talk about an essential need for your business, data enrichment.If you can optimize your enrichment process, you'll improve your database's health, completeness, and accuracy - a win for both marketing AND sales teams!Join us as we break down:What is data enrichment and why is it usefulHow to build a business case if you don't already have a data enrichment toolWhat to do (and not do) when setting up a data enrichment tool, andHow to measure the impact data enrichment has on your businessAt CS2, we're all about working smarter, not harder. Enrichment is one way you can improve the quality of your data and make it easier on your sales and marketing teams to connect with your target market.

Tom Barkley has a job you probably have never heard of. At TruStone Financial Credit Union he is VP, Solutions Architecture.What's that mean? Listen to the podcast. He explains in detail.I wanted Barkley to guest on the podcast precisely because (a) I had never heard of this title; and (b) as I thought about it I realized that more credit unions need a person in this role as they sort through a staggering array of tech options…but are the solutions they bring what the business units of the credit union need?  Does anyone at the credit union need them?Barkley's boss at TruStone is the CTO, Gary Jeter, whom you heard in a podcast last year.  That show was taped at the inaugural CU 2.0 VIP Live event in Austin Texas.  In Barkley's show you will also hear his discussion of why he went to Trinity College Dublin for his undergraduate education and how a Trinity history major migrated into technology.But you will hear, too, what he is getting out of CU 2.0 VIP Live, a very different kind of credit union – fintech event.Listen up.

Do you wonder how your peers are getting ahead of you, and want to have rapid career progression? Or, do you want to know more about building connections in your professional network? In Episode 26, we learn the importance of technology changes and the need of a balanced work-life lifestyle with Nitu Parimi, Head of Solutions Architecture, Strategic Accounts, at Amazon Web Services. With more than 20 years under her belt and has 5 AWS certifications and is a Google Cloud Platform certified professional, she encourages listeners to explore different opportunities which is the best strategy in unlocking your full career potential. Tune in to gain valuable tips and strategies for achieving success in your own career journey. What You'll Learn: 1. Why it's important to put yourself in positions to learn. 2. Why people with hard work and dedication typically don't land their dream jobs. 3. How to achieve growth and live a balanced life. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aarna-sahu/support

AWS Data Lab helps customers shave months off of their development timelines by providing an engagement that pairs their teams of builders with dedicated AWS technical resources - helping them make architectural decisions faster, remove technical roadblocks, build with confidence, and build fast! In this episode, Angie Gould (Manager of Product Management) and Hunter Carlisle (Manager of Solutions Architecture) join Simon to talk about how the AWS Data Lab is helping customers across the globe build solutions on AWS. They dive into common projects that customers work on in the lab, how customers are using machine learning in industries like sports and finance, what to expect, and how to get started. Learn more about AWS Data Lab: https://go.aws/3HTavQM

Brilliant in 20 continues with our next guest, Patrick “Sully” Sullivan, Principal Product Strategist for US Public Sector at Hyperscience, a startup that provides an intelligent content processing platform. A two-time FedHealthIT 100 award winner, Sully's career spans multiple small and large businesses including Aptive Resources, Systems Made Simple, and KGS. As a technologist, his prior roles included VP of Digital and Technology Solutions, VP of Emerging Technologies, and Director of Solutions Architecture for IT services firms. Listen in to learn more about automation and the customer experience and values-based leadership. A partnership between Scoop News Group and Council's company, Emerald One, LLC, Brilliant in 20 is a celebration of leadership, sharing the lessons learned by visionaries in a variety of fields like technology, business and government in just about 20 minutes.

Brad Wheeler and Joe Lynch discuss the FreightTech dilemma. Brad serves as the Senior Director of Customer Strategy at Emerge, the leading freight procurement platform. About Brad Wheeler Brad Wheeler, one of the company's "starting lineup," has been with Emerge since its inception in 2017. In his current role as the Senior Director of Customer Strategy, Brad leads a team focusing on Solutions Architecture and Implementation Strategy whose mission is to work directly with shippers to bring efficiency to the capacity procurement process through technology. Through thousands of shipper and carrier interactions revolving around successful freight tech implementation, Brad brings an incredibly valuable perspective to any shipper looking to introduce technology into their supply chain. With additional experience as the Manager of Sales and later the Director of Business Operations, Brad has been a key contributor to successfully scaling Emerge from a workforce of 30 to over 300 employees. Brad brings it all to the table from characterizing Emerge's brand and culture, presenting Emerge's value proposition to the industry, and determining pivotal insights to enhance customer experience. Brad's higher education includes a B.S. in Exercise & Wellness from Arizona State University and M.S. in Sports & Business Leadership from the University of Kentucky About Emerge Transforming the $800 billion freight industry, Emerge empowers meaningful logistics relationships through its award-winning Freight Procurement Platform. Built by freight professionals for freight professionals, Emerge is reinventing the procurement process by offering solutions that enable shippers and carriers to make more empowered, strategic decisions. In addition to the platform, shippers can connect to the Emerge Marketplace which opens access to 35,000 asset based carriers in order to create meaningful freight connections. The world's largest shippers and capacity providers use the Emerge Freight Procurement Platform daily, showing immediate ROI for procurement and saving valuable time in the process. Founded in 2017, and located in Scottsdale, Arizona, Emerge is one of the fastest-growing technology startups in the U.S. Key Takeaways: The FreightTech Dilemma Brad Wheeler is the Senior Director of Customer Strategy at Emerge, the leading freight procurement technology platform. In the podcast interview, Joe and Brad discussed the FreightTech dilemma that many shippers face when considering new technology. Most shippers recognize that FreightTech is one of the best ways to streamline their shipping function and potentially save money – however, the dilemma arises because FreightTech has traditionally come with some challenges. Some of the challenges that cause shippers to hesitate when it comes to freight technology are: Freight technology is daunting, difficult to understand, and there are so many choices – big project to take on Freight technology has often required a sizeable investment and the ROI is not guaranteed An organization is going to need specialized knowledge, which may include new hiring or paying for additional resources Freight technology implementations are time consuming and may disrupt and distract the team from their jobs During the interview, Brad explains that the newest generation of freight technologies are much easier on the budget, and implementations are much less time consuming. Emerge's RFP technology platform is part of the new generation of freight technologies and Brad points out that shippers can use the system for free – and creating an RFP event takes hours, not weeks or months.  Shippers using Emerge's Freight Procurement Platform can spend less time on carrier RFPs and more time developing relationships with current and prospective carriers. The goal is to let the technology automate the process, while humans are building relationships with their fellow humans. Emerge is reinventing freight procurement by providing access to benchmarked rates and thousands of trusted partners to maximize cost-savings. Emerge is custom built for freight RFP events and as a result the process is streamlined, easy, and saves shippers time and money. The Emerge platform provides carriers access to more shippers and more opportunities. Carriers gain access and bid directly on exclusive contract and spot lanes that they may have never had access to before. Emerge's network connects carriers with shippers of all sizes, providing them more opportunities in the lanes that work for your company. Emerge uses a network model, which becomes increasingly valuable to users (carriers and shippers) as it scales. Learn More About The FreightTech Dilemma Brad on LinkedIn Emerge on LinkedIn LinkedIn Emerge Awarded Podcast Awarded Podcast on Apple Awarded Podcast on Spotify Awarded Podcast on YouTube Modern RFP Processes Offer Multitude of Shipper Benefits Emerge launches Benchmarking Related The LoL episodes:  The Emerge Story with Andrew Leto Building a Freight Juggernaut Again with Michael Leto The Freight RFP Process is Broken – Let's Fix It with Maggie Petrovic Emerge Levels Up with Michael Leto It's Not the Market, It's Your Procurement with Andrew Haverkampf The Freight Marketplace with Dave Maddox Is Your TMS Enough with Derek Doddridge The Secret Sauce with Mark McEntire Smart Freight Sourcing with Andy Semisch The Logistics of Logistics Podcast If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a positive review, subscribe, and share it with your friends and colleagues. 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Hear Chris discuss how his winding path went from restaurants and management to Security and Innovation. Join us as Chris Moore, VP of Solutions Architecture for Thrive lays out the key problems facing customers in the midst of this massive tech talent shortage. Thrive has tons of tools, but more importantly, the talent to manage just about any customer environment while modernizing and augmenting whatever technology they might run up against. Transcript of episode can be found below. Josh Lupresto (00:01): Welcome to the podcast that is designed to fuel your success in selling technology solutions. I'm your host, Josh Lupresto, SVP of Sales Engineering, Telarus, and this is Next Level BizTech. Hi everybody, welcome back. I'm your host, Josh Lupresto, and today we are joined by a good man, Chris Moore, VP of Solution Architecture for Thrive. Chris, thanks for jumping on with me, man. Chris Moore (00:28): Josh, thanks for having me. I'm looking forward to it. Josh Lupresto (00:31): So, title today we're talking about, you know, in this managed services world, but more importantly we're laying a claim. We're saying it's really hard and it's real, the talent shortage in technology, you know, in security in cloud, all of these things, right? So, so we're gonna get to that. I'm excited to kind of hear, obviously you guys have a lot of incredible solutions around that, and we'll get into that as we go. And we're gonna try to answer this. Now, more importantly, though, I wanna hear about your background. You know, if, look, if you've had a, you've had a great linear path and you knew exactly what you wanted to be your entire life, kudos to you. But if you took some weird, windy path and you, you know, you used to train goldfish or whatever, that's okay too. So, first of all, tell me about your background, Chris, let everybody know kind of how you got here. Chris Moore (01:18): Absolutely. Thanks Josh. So, as a kid my dad brought home this lovely IBM computer, and I turned on the monitor. I was like, What the heck is this? I'm looking at, And there was a five and a quarter inch floppy sitting next to it, and I plugged it in the 28 discs or whatever it was to get it Lotus 1, 2, 3 loaded up. Then the next evolution came. I was like, Oh, we can put this modem in it and I can get Prodigy loaded up and everything's good. And then as I progressed through my childhood I didn't honestly really play that much for the computers. I got sucked into working at restaurants and washing dishes and helping the bartenders and all that good stuff. And then I realized when I went to college, I wanted to go get my restaurant resort management degree. Chris Moore (02:07): So that's what I started off down that path. And then right around that time is right when the the CD writers came out where you could burn your own music onto, yeah, CDs. And they were all running by a parallel port, and you expect hundreds and thousands of dollars on CDs that never burnt correctly, and you threw 'em out. And it was right around that point in time where I decided actually, I want to go do something with computers for a career. So I went down and saw my counselor, said, Hey, I wanna change majors. And she looked at me and she goes, Well, if you wanna be here for three more years, and I had about 18 months left, right? So she goes, If you wanna be here for three more years, then you can change majors. And I looked at her and said, Nope, I'll get my degree, and then I'll go do what I want to do. So I did, and ironically, my first job out of college was working at a national restaurant chain on their help desk. Josh Lupresto (03:05): Ah. Chris Moore (03:06): So from there, I did help desk support. I went out to restaurants, pulled CAT5 cable, redid their POS systems, and kind of terminated everything you know, at two o'clock in the morning after the restaurant had closed, and then came back in the next morning and trained the...

Measuring ROI on marketing is probably one of the trickiest things to do for operators and analysts. There are so many things to consider from your campaign structure, how you track cost, and even what tools to use. But this week, our very own VP of Solutions Architecture and Analytics Alison Rouse will dive into another meaty topic for analytics - and that is yup, marketing ROI! On the podcast we will dive into: The definition of ROI and the different types you can measure for marketing What pitfalls or issues you can face when trying to track ROI What methods we see work best across clients and an overview on a few tools to use And, what you really to also track first before even trying to measure marketing ROI to tell the full story If you loved our attribution episodes on the pod - you will love this one! Whether you are a CMO trying to understand marketing ROI, or an analyst tackling it yourself, it will be super helpful. To connect with Alison and ask any follow-up questions for her, https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonrouse/ (connect with her on LinkedIn. )

Bill Bernard, Managing Director of Solutions Architecture from Deepwatch, sits down with Dave to discuss industry pushback on cyber reporting regulations. Ben's story is focused on a novel court decision on geofence warrants in California. Dave's got the story of a $228 million judgment in the first biometrics privacy class action to go to trial in Illinois after a company called BNSF Railway Co. wrongfully collected employee fingerprints without proper consent. While this show covers legal topics, and Ben is a lawyer, the views expressed do not constitute legal advice. For official legal advice on any of the topics we cover, please contact your attorney.  First Court in California Suppresses Evidence from Overbroad Geofence Warrant First Illinois Biometric Privacy Trial Ends in BNSF Loss (2) WHAT IS BIPA? Got a question you'd like us to answer on our show? You can send your audio file to caveat@thecyberwire.com. Hope to hear from you.

In today's episode, we're talking to Andy Serwatuk, Director of Solutions Architecture at Onix Networking Corp., a Google Cloud Premier Partner enabling companies to effectively leverage the Google Cloud Platform across industries and use cases.We discuss:Andy's background and how he started at Onix.The differences between SaaS and non-SaaS companies.Is Google Cloud a no-brainer for SaaS companies today?The value of outsourcing tasks to citizens.How can SaaS companies learn more about IoT and other emerging trends?…and much more.This episode is brought to you by QrveyThe tools you need to take action with your data, on a platform built for maximum scalability, security, and cost efficiencies. If you're ready to reduce complexity and dramatically lower costs, contact us today at qrvey.com.Qrvey, the modern no-code analytics solution for SaaS companies on AWS.#saas #analytics #AWS #BI

About DonovanDonovan Brady is the Director of Solutions Architecture at Logicworks. He began his career at Logicworks six years ago as a Solutions Architect, fast forward to today, Donovan now manages a team of highly skilled and certified AWS and Azure Solutions Architects. During his time at Logicworks, Donovan has had the opportunity to work with companies in a variety of verticals to solve their most complex IT and business challenges. Donovan is originally from New York and has been a professional musician since the age of six. He is also a self-proclaimed 90's video game nerd.Links Referenced: LogicWorks: https://www.logicworks.com/ Donovan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donovan-brady-9403a583/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. My guest on this promoted episode of Screaming in the Cloud is Donovan Brady, director of solutions architecture at Logicworks and something of a kindred spirit in that he tends to also focus on something that I more or less spend my time being obnoxious about on Twitter, which is in many cases going towards cloud for the right reasons with an outcome in mind, which is rarely having the most interesting and clever technical stack imaginable. Donovan, thank you for joining me today.Donovan: Yeah, thanks for having me. Corey, really excited for the conversation and looking forward to getting into it.Corey: Let's start by establishing the bona fides, for lack of a better term here. What does Logicworks do that they require a director of solutions architecture?Donovan: Logicworks is a managed services and professional services cloud provider specializing in hyper-compliant workloads migrating, optimizing, and operating in the cloud, right? That means that we work with primarily Software-as-a-Service companies or HealthTech or FinTech companies with compliances, like PCI, HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC, ISO, GDPR, pretty much you name it and we help customers in their cloud journey operate and optimize in the cloud.Corey: It's weird, when you talk about optimizing in cloud, people always hear that as, “Oh, we're going to fix the bill, we're going to—” because again, that is the context in which I operate where, “Oh, great. We're going to optimize your cloud bill.” Which makes sense, but I think that people have lost sight of the forest for the trees in many respects, where when they hear, “I'm going to optimize your bill,” that often comes across, “Oh, we're going to make it smaller,” because generally, it's not very well optimized, and one of those optimal things you can do is turn something that's unneeded or unnecessary off, and surprise, there's a side effect of saving money. But it often means that in some cases, it's time to start spending more money on things like, oh I don't know, backups, and resiliency, and figure out what it is that the business is aligned around. Because you can always cut the bill to zero by turning everything off. It seems like that's not really the alignment that—or the reason that companies go to cloud in the first place. So, what's your take on that? Why do most companies say, “Ah. We have a problem and we're going to go with cloud,” in the hopes that it fixes that problem?Donovan: Yeah, it's an interesting point. So, a lot of times we hear customers say exactly what you just mentioned: “We want to move to cloud so that we can save costs,” or, “Oh, we're in the cloud and we're primarily concerned about costs.” Unfortunately, that's the wrong motivation. Saving cost is definitely a byproduct of moving to the cloud if you do it the right way, but the primary business reasons why somebody or an organization would want to move to the cloud are slightly different, right? The business objectives that most customers or companies want to increase are their agility, they want to increase their profitability, they want to decrease their time-to-revenue.Let's say—as I mentioned, I work with a lot of Software-as-a-Service companies—they have a monolithic application right now that takes a long time to update, it takes a long time to patch. If you can modernize that application, if you can use some more cutting edge or bleeding edge tools like what's provided in the public cloud, you'd be able to significantly decrease that timetable for deploying new updates, acquiring new companies, decreasing your time to revenue. Those are the primary business drivers that customers should be focused on. And then when you're optimizing in the cloud, you're really looking at the five categories of the Well-Architected Framework, which as you mentioned, isn't just cost. There's security, there's reliability, there's performance, and there's operations, and all of these are kind of intertwined, and can eventually lead to a decrease in [laugh] costs, right, but if you were to just lift-and-shift into the cloud, you're probably not going to save that much money.Corey: Let's not forget the sixth pillar of the Well-Architected Framework, which was recently added which is sustainability. Unfortunately, it does seem a little true to life where it seems like it's been bolted on after the fact. I would have expected that to also be the security pillar, but that's a little sensitive for some folks. It's one of those areas where sustainability and cost optimization tend to go hand-in-glove because turning something off benefits everyone except the cloud providers hoping that you don't turn things off in some cases. I don't necessarily believe that's where the major hyperscalers are sitting today, but there's no denying that they do benefit from things sitting there going unused, as do most companies that charge money for a thing that they provide you.Donovan: Yeah, that's exactly true. There are some other tools that make it easier to save costs and still achieve your expected goals, and that's the more of those more cutting-edge technologies like a serverless deployment, right? A Lambda function is a point-in-time deployment of your code without needing to rely on an ongoing virtual machine, or database, or whatever it is that is running that application, and it runs for just a couple minutes, couple seconds, however long you need it. And I was actually just speaking with a customer recently, we did this CXO dinner, and we were talking about the benefits of the cloud. It was almost as if we planted him there.We didn't; he randomly showed up. But he was also promoting the cloud because he said he runs his entire organization almost in the free tier of AWS because the entire thing is serverless-based, you know? So, there are definitely ways to optimize your costs and therefore sustainability, as you mentioned: turning things off or maybe not have them permanently running in the first place. But you can only achieve that once you've actually done the shift after the lift.Corey: The website that hosts this podcast is lastweekinaws.com. The first version of that that I put up was entirely Lambda and S3-driven. It was traditionally serverless; it cost pennies a month to run.And I've migrated it a few years ago to where it currently is, living on WordPress at WP Engine. Now, a lot of the technology purists will look at that and say that I went in the exact wrong direction. Why would I ever do that? Well, because things like integrating a podcast feed into the website are, grab a plugin; call it good. I can find a universe of people who are better at working with WordPress from a development perspective than I am as opposed to building something myself out of basically popsicle sticks and string and spending all of my time maintaining that.Like, this website does not directly bring in any revenue to the business. It is ancillary. I need to have it in order to empower what the business does, but it is not a core competency of what we do, so outsourcing that to someone who does specialize in this makes an awful lot of business sense. And very often I'll see people who are missing the point in cloud when it comes to losing sight of what the actual business objective is.Donovan: Absolutely. Oftentimes, we hear the primary business goal is, “We want to decrease costs.” They hear for a number of reasons, “We can decrease costs.” “Oh, we can cut some of our operations teams because the cloud just magically runs.” You know, it doesn't exactly work that way. But they're missing sight of the actual business drivers that can help them grow the business, right?What I like to say is that the cloud is not just a data center to host your infrastructure or host your applications; it's actually a platform to grow your business. And because of these more streamlined and automated tools that AWS, Azure, Google, and these other hyperscaler clouds provide you, you can actually hit an immense amount of profitability by just leveraging these tools, but it requires you to transform your business. And that is what cloud adoption really is. Many people think that cloud adoption is a project, “Oh, I migrated to the cloud,” and then you leave it alone. Right?But if you do that you're subject to a lot of issues. Back to that Well-Architected Framework that we said, if you don't have any guardrails in place to make sure that you have the proper security posture or the proper high availability or reliability concerns, right, it leads to cloud sprawl. Now, cloud sprawl is when an environment lacks the necessary guardrails and governance to limit the deployment of resources, right? This has a number of impacts, including a larger attack surface—that's primarily security—there are tons of resources that can get deployed—there's a lot of cost there—and then a lot of management overhead, you know? So, this means that cloud adoption is not a point-in-time project; it's really a process; it's a methodology; it's an ongoing, continuous process, to make sure that you are cost-optimized, to make sure that you're reliable, to make sure that you're secure.And if you can maintain an optimized environment that's well-architected, you will inevitably grow your business because as we mentioned, it's going to lead to better innovation, more agile development teams that can go to market quicker, increasing your overall revenue.Corey: I think that people like to lose sight of the fact that in almost every case, unless you're doing something absolutely bizarre, payroll is going to cost more than your cloud bill. Now, please don't take that as a personal challenge if you're listening to this. The goal is not to run up the score and see how high you can get just for funsies. Although I do admit, I play that game occasionally with, you know, accounts that are not my own. But in practice, for an easy example, on this, people like to turn up their nose at RDS sometimes because well, that charges a lot of money to run MySQL and I can run MySQL on top of EC2 instances.Yes, you can, but what is your time worth comparatively? And at certain points of scale, when you're making extraordinary demands on it, the economics do come back around where yeah, you probably should be running it on EC2 instead of as a managed service, but so much of that is going to be contextual. It's basically impossible to look at an AWS estate—or any cloud estate for that matter—and unequivocally say, “Oh, this is a bad design. This is something that should not be because of X, Y, and Z,” because invariably, there's context that you're missing. I look at cloud accounts all the time where I could, in a vacuum, go ahead and optimize the living hell out of it, except there are reasons that things are the way they are, and the best way to look like a junior consultant is to show up and start throwing shade without understanding why things are the way they are.Donovan: Exactly. And I think the number one issue that people run into, that organizations run into post-migration, is being able to track or tie back their migration and their optimization efforts to the business drivers. Logicworks actually ran an anonymous campaign, it was a survey. We hired some consultants, and some of the information that we found was absolutely shocking. They said that about 63% of organizations that have migrated to the cloud don't actually understand or see the value of the cloud.Now, again, if you're listening to this, that doesn't mean that there isn't the value; it means that these organizations haven't been able to track that, they haven't been able to identify, okay, what are the agility metrics? What is the intended time to market? How long do we want to go with patches? Is this going to be a 24-hour timetable or is it going to be a week-long timetable? How many pushes are we making a day?And then you can actually track that to the revenue that's been generated? And then you can understand. But that's a lot of work, and people are mostly concerned about the hard details of the technical. You know, “Okay, just put me in there. Let's see how it goes. We got to get out of our data center for one reason or another,” but they missed the overall idea of this adoption that we're referencing here.Corey: On some level, it feels like the real business value of a cloud migration has little to do with the cloud itself and everything to do with let's get out of the environment we're currently in and into a new environment because that turns over a whole bunch of rocks and lets you finally sunset some things that really should have been turned off decades ago. I don't know that's too cynical of a take, but I can't shake the feeling there's some validity to it somewhere.Donovan: [laugh]. Yeah, there definitely is some validity to that we've worked with a number of customers that we've migrated, and one perfect example. Last year, we were working with this disaster cleanup organization. They are one of the largest in the country. They have 1700 franchises and they needed to get out of their primary data center because there were a ton of issues.There was actually a case where a squirrel had chewed through one of their power cables to the data center and shut off their air conditioning, so their data center was overheating. We were talking to them about the entire scope that they understood the migration to include, it had about 100 distinct applications and about maybe three to 400 virtual machines. Once we actually got into the assessment, there were over 700 virtual machines and 320 applications; distinct applications. There's a mixture between custom off-the-shelf builds or homegrown applications that they've been making themselves, but they didn't understand that they had over 60% of the IT estate that was just residing in that data center. Because sometimes it's difficult to keep track of all of that.That's one of the things that cloud helps with. Cloud provides a ton of management and visibility and observability and traceability tools, but again, they need to be enabled, you know? And I think when companies are concerned about migrating and they're just concerned about the re-hosting or the re-platforming of their applications, the management of this as an afterthought, and the actual, “How does this change our business,” is kind of a, “Oh man,” question mark in their head because that wasn't something that was considered. And then that's usually when we get the call.Corey: It's always fun when the bat phone goes off because people are generally not calling because, “Hey, things are great here. We just really wanted to boast about it some.” It turns into a, “Oh crap, we have a problem.” That honestly is one of my favorite parts of consulting is when you wind up being able to solve what feels like a monumental problem for someone, and sure, it's relatively easy for you—presumably because when you do the same thing again and again and become a subject matter expert in it, it's just a question of style more than how do I solve this intractable problem. But it's nice to be able to walk away with a client saying, “That was awesome. I wish we could do it again.”Donovan: Yeah.Corey: Helping people is really what the game is about. I think that some folks tend to lose sight of that. And again, consulting doesn't have the best reputation in the world, due to some of the larger shops, in some cases, doing what presents as, “Oh, I don't know how to fix this, but I'm going to show up and prolong the problem forever.” I don't see that that is true consulting in the traditional sense, but maybe I'm just playing games with words.Donovan: No, I agree with that. I think one of my favorite parts of consulting is taking a step back and evaluating the entire landscape of what the problem is that we're trying to solve, right? Oftentimes, as you are aware, somebody comes to you and they say, “This is the problem and this is what I need you to do to fix it.” Eight out of ten times, the solution that they've come up with probably isn't the right solution. That will fix a symptom, right, but it's not going to fix the actual cause or the biggest issue that's plaguing them, right?They have this continuous issue and they know that that's going to cause them heartache and we need somebody to just do this, we don't have time to do this. But if you peel back the onion and understand why you're having that issue, that's where I think a better consulting company would come in and help them discern.Corey: There's value in perspective. Very often, when you are the client organization, you're too close to the problem, and/or you are extraordinarily familiar with your own context, but you're missing some of the larger context in the greater ecosystem. I mean, one of the ways that I tend to look like a wizard from the future when I see something odd on their AWS bill and can just call it out, like, “Oh yeah, that's this weird side effect of when you wind up having additional CloudTrail Management Events, yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda,” and they look at me like I'm a wizard from the future because I can just bust that out off the top of my head. Yeah, but the reason I can do that is because these things repeat themselves, these patterns continue to emerge, and the first time I saw that, it took me two weeks to get to the bottom of it. Now, when I see the symptoms of it, it's oh, yeah, it's that thing again.And I feel like consulting is just a collection of stories like that again, and again, and again. And again, part of the trick is you don't let the client ever see you sweat or do the research. You just, “All right, my next availability is in two weeks. I have a thing coming up.” And that thing, as it turns out, is spending two weeks of deep-dive research. But at least in my case I'd never charge by the hour, so it's all about being mysterious and perceived as being good at these things, at least back in the early days. Then for my sins, I actually became good at it. Oops.Donovan: [laugh]. Doesn't that always seem to happen? It's just like, “Oh, I didn't expect to be an expert in this,” and then I don't know where one day you're like, “Oh, I guess I am the expert.”Corey: Yeah. There's also value in being an outside voice where you're not beholden to individual stakeholders of, “Oh, yeah, we're never allowed to wind up talking about that one system because someone went empire-building and they're powerful here and you can't ever talk about that thing in any way that doesn't lead to more headcount and the rest.” Awesome. I don't have the energy or time for those things, and to be direct, I'm not very good at it, as an employee. I can mind my manners for the duration of a relatively short duration consulting engagement just fine, but I'm also not necessarily there to look at things that are clearly suboptimal and say, “Oh, yeah, this is the way that it should be.”But I'm also not the type to come in and say, “Well, why didn't you build this in Lambda?” “Well, genius because then when this thing was built, Lambda didn't exist, for one,” is a perfectly valid answer to that. And why would you go back and refactor something that's already doing its job, unless your primary business objective is to bolster your own resume? Which I would suggest, it probably shouldn't be?Donovan: Yeah, exactly. And that's where that outside perspective comes in because there are seven Rs of migration, right? Used to be six Rs; now there's seven hours of migration, and you need to continuously reevaluate all of your application portfolio and see which of the seven Rs is most applicable to you, right? This is why that cloud adoption idea is an ongoing process. Maybe you're beholden to some legacy applications that they really did serve their purpose when you were first migrating and there was nothing wrong with them, but now a few years later, it's time to take a deeper look at all of your applications. Maybe we don't need that application anymore. Maybe we can repurchase that. Maybe there's a SaaS version of that, that we can go leverage now.Or maybe it's completely unrelated. You know, I was working with a prospect recently, who came to us—they are currently hosted in AWS—they came to us by way of Microsoft because we're both an AWS and an Azure Partner, and Microsoft said, “Hey, they have some concerns. They wanted us to do a little assessment and see what's going on.” We talked to them, and they said that they were looking to migrate away from AWS and into Azure because they wanted better pricing—Corey: Oh, jeez.Donovan: —and that is—exactly [laugh]. And that is the exact reason why you don't migrate from one to the other because you're setting yourself up for failure, right? It's not about the cost; it's not about the sticker price, the retail price. At the end of the day, all the cloud providers are going to be plus or minus a 2% difference. It's, how did you architect this environment?And when we started peeling back that onion, we started realizing they didn't really have any guardrails or governance, and they started experiencing some of this cloud sprawl. And they expected that by transitioning cloud providers, they would have solved this magic wand solution, and now they're just going to have better costs without putting any processes or frameworks in place to manage the environment to ensure that doesn't happen again.Corey: Let's take it a step further. If you're migrating to cloud to save money, you are probably not going to achieve any cost savings within five years at the soonest. That ignores as well the opportunity cost of all that energy that could be spent on other projects. If you're moving to the cloud, it has to be based on a capability story, not because, “Oh, we're going to save money by moving to the cloud,” in almost every case. I mean, the one time that actually did result in saving money was my own story, where instead of renting a rack in downtown Los Angeles—or part of a rack—for what was it, I think $300 a month or whatnot, suddenly, I wound up just spinning up a couple of Gmail accounts, and oh, this is costing me $10 a month instead, that actually did save some money. On a hobby project where my time was effectively free.That is not usually the case for any functioning business. Don't lose sight of the fact that as technologists, we tend to view our time is free, but to our employer, it's more expensive than the AWS bill. It's spend the money where it makes sense to spend the money.Donovan: Exactly. And that's a great tie-back to those business drivers, right? I think the cloud is a no-brainer for an organization who is looking to expand. “We're right now only in these couple states and we want to be national,” or, “Now, we're going to have a global presence, and it's way easier to leverage the global footprint of the cloud than it is to build your own data centers or whatever your own solution would be.” Right?But those are the primary business drivers that you're looking to achieve. And I think, as a solutions architect, you know, solutions architects are really those consultants that take that higher-level approach and dig deeper to understand okay, but what are we trying to solve here? And this is how we can solve that, right? Not just, oh, I want to save some costs.Corey: I'm taking a look at one of the projects that I'm working on right now and from—this is objectively the wrong direction along almost every axis—I am building something new that I'm not quite ready to talk about yet, but it is going to be revenue-bearing and thus production, and tied to a web app that I'm in the process of constructing. I am intentionally setting out from the beginning to break from my usual serverless pattern and build this to run on top of Kubernetes. I have been, therefore, learning Kubernetes for the last few weeks, and I have many thoughts on it, few of them flattering. And I'm looking at this going, “This seems over-engineered,” and for my use case, it certainly is. However, the reason I'm doing this is because every client I'm dealing with these days runs some Kubernetes stuff themselves, and I should understand it better. It gives me a production workload that I can use for demos for a variety of different things. The staging environment will contain no personally identifiable information, so I can deploy that anywhere that there's a Kubernetes-esque environment or control plane as a dummy workload that I can use to kick the tires on this.And for those reasons, it makes an awful lot of sense. In practice, doing something serverlessly would be the better option. Or the best answer would be to find someone who provides this sort of thing as a white label-able service that I can just pay a few hundred bucks a month to and not think about this thing again. But those are the constraints that make what otherwise looks like a ridiculous idea make sense in this context. But oh God, looking at this for people who run Kubernetes just so they can host their blog, it's, what are you doing over there? Is that just sort of the Hello World-style application? Because not for nothing, the value of a blog is in the content, not in the magic that winds up making that content visible to readers in almost every case.Donovan: Yeah, [laugh] this is one of my favorite topics to talk about, actually, because so many times, we engage these customers, and they're like, “We want to containerize.” And I'm like, “Oh, that's awesome. I love the idea. There's so many benefits to containerization that pretty much checks every box within the Well-Architected Framework.” And then their next sentence is, “And so, we're going to move to Kubernetes.”And I'm like, “Well, why Kubernetes?” Right? Because as you said, this is just a blog, or this is just a static website, or whatever the application they have is. Containers are great, but do you need a full-fledged Kubernetes deployment? Do you need every open-source software possible so that you can integrate?Or would you be just fine with ECS that is pretty streamlined, pretty much out of the box just works from AWS? Sometimes it's necessary. Sometimes EKS or a Kubernetes deployment or maybe your own self-managed Kubernetes deployment is necessary, but it's another one of these misconceptions, I'd say, when people hear the new buzzwords, they're like, “Oh, we need to do that because that's the best thing to do.” And it's often best as you—I loved your word ‘perspective,' the outside perspective—it's usually best to get that outside perspective and understand really how—what specific solution might help you.Corey: From where I sit, I think that people often tend to skip over that. It gets to the idea of resume-driven development. And honestly, it's hard to tell people they're necessarily going in the wrong direction given how fever-pitched the hype around Kubernetes has gotten. Every company is using it for something, and on some level, wanting to get that on your resume is a logical next step. Looking at cloud bills, I would never suggest someone [laugh] wind up doing this on their own dime, so yeah, it does make sense in that context.The goal, I think of being a technology executive is to be able to understand that and, one, provide pathways for your team to develop, but also to make sure that their objectives align with the business's objectives. And often I do not see that leading in the Kubernetes direction, for better or worse. There's a reason that I own the domain kubernetestheeasyway.com and I repoint it to Amazon's ECS.Although to those listening, I am thrilled to repoint that to the highest bidder; my email is open. Jokes and witticisms aside, I am curious based upon your perspective in the market—which is broader than mine because imagine that, you don't focus on one very specific problem—what are most organizations looking at for business drivers that they generally tend to either not realize or not quite achieve, or, “Well, that didn't go quite the way that we wanted to?” Because we see the outcome of people moving to cloud; we don't necessarily see the reasons behind it.Donovan: Yeah, that's a great point. So, the first and foremost concern that I'd say most companies experience is how do we make sure that our website or application is always up and always able to generate revenue, right? Based on the types of customers that we get, they're hyper-compliant, they're mission critical, they're 24x7, they need to always be on, they need to make sure that whatever the platform that they're running their infrastructure on is able to be up 24x7. Much harder to do that in your own world than it is to do that in cloud, right, so that's one large business driver.Another large business driver, again, with hyper-compliance, is security. They've experienced some security incidents and they want to make sure that they have a more scalable, secure platform as they grow because, again, maybe they're becoming national, or they're becoming global, or they need to meet some compliance regulation, right? And then additionally, as I've mentioned a couple times here, they want to increase their overall agility, which will in turn decrease their time to market their time to revenue. That is an often miscalculated correlation, right? People say, “Okay, we'll increase our agility,” but without realizing why they're going to try to increase their agility.They want to move from pushing code 20 times a month to 20 times a day, but why, right? That's the agility piece, but why do you want to do that? Well, because it allows us to more quickly debug our code. It allows us to more quickly identify issues or rollbacks and improve our overall efficiency, increase customer retention, increase customer satisfaction, things like that.Corey: I really wish that people would, I guess, tell those stories more in conference talks, rather than, “We moved to the cloud because of reasons, and it was awesome.” And it's always depressing to me because you hear them tell this beautiful story, and you turn next to the person in the audience often and be like, “Oh, I wish I could work in a place that ran a project like that.” And they say, “Yeah, me too.” And you check their badge and they work at the same company the speaker does. It's the idea of telling this fanciful, imagined versioning rather than addressing the reality that the real world is very messy.Donovan: Exactly. And it's really hard, you know? I'm not going to sit here and say, “Well, you know, everything that we're talking about here and completely transforming your business is simple. And wow, you guys aren't smart for doing it or for not doing it.” You know? It is difficult.But back to that idea of the outside perspective, there are tried and true methods, right? Like we talked about with the Well-Architected Framework, with the Cloud Adoption Methodology, with the Seven Rs of Migration, right? There's a lot of content out there are a lot of people out there that can help you, but it's definitely a journey.Corey: It really is. And I want to thank you for sharing your view of it with us on the show. If people want to learn more, where's the best place to find you?Donovan: Visit our website, logicworks.com. You could visit us across all of our social media platforms. You could reach out to me directly; happy to talk to anybody, even if you just wanted to say, “Hey, how's the weather?” Right now, it's raining. But yeah, definitely reach out to us via our website.Corey: And we will, of course, put a link to that in the show notes. Thank you so much for being so generous with your time. I appreciate it.Donovan: Thank you so much, Corey. I had a great time, and looking forward to the next one.Corey: Donovan Brady, director of solutions architecture at Logicworks on this promoted guest episode. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with an angry rant as a negative comment on this, presumably because you are Donovan's antithesis, the director of problems architecture.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

** Early Release ** This week the PreSales Podcast is utilizing VIDEO! ​Research shows that what buyers want most from vendors are product demos. But what type of demo should we deliver at each stage of the buyer journey?​ ‍Many PreSales professionals categorize demos into two types: the standard demo and the technical demo. ‍In reality, there are six critical types of demos that most stakeholders in the buying group must go through to reach a decision. Knowing what the buyer is thinking and the problems they are trying to solve at each stage of the buying process is key to understanding what type of demo to deliver. ​In this webinar, we discuss the six essential types of demos, their recommended content, recommended length, and who should be leading them. We'll also discuss the role demo automation can play--where it is useful and where you should avoid it.​ J Hear from Garin Hess, author of "Selling is Hard. Buying is Harder." and Founder of Consensus on leveraging each of the demo types to make your PreSales team more effective. Sign up or sign in at www.presalescollective.com

➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory   ➡️ About The Guest⁣ Andrew Nichols has been a Technical Pre-Sales Engineer for Samsung for 8 years and has been focused on delivering secure mobile solutions to many brands and companies you recognize. He is focused on living an independent and eco-friendly lifestyle with his family; growing food for the year, raising a flock of chickens, harvesting rainwater, and collecting solar energy to power his EV and E-Bike.  Andrew graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Informatics and a focus on Information Assurance which spearheaded his interest in the world of privacy and security. Currently, Andrew has been volunteering and leading an organization in his community known as the ReMakery which is dedicated to helping teach and perform repairs for broken items in his community, as well as investigating using tech and techniques to turn trash into desirable products and objects. ➡️ Show Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/seattleandrew/  https://samsungknox.com/    ➡️ Check out Samsung Knox https://youtu.be/PHNfZ0fBMuI https://youtu.be/miO4nTBDois ➡️ Podcast Sponsors HUBSPOT - https://hubspot.com/ ➡️ Talking Points⁣ 00:00 - Intro 03:07 - Andrew Nichols's origin story 05:26 - What was the first job that allowed Andrew Nichols to start learning about what he's doing now? 10:03 - Why did Andrew pursue a field that is mission critical? 12:45 - The current environment for corporate security 24:39 - Solving human problems regarding corporate security 31:57 - How do people get attacked and how is their security compromised in an organization? 42:40 - Some mobile security cases that weren't set up properly 45:10 - Why did Samsung want to champion security? 49:10 - What differentiates Samsung Knox from other mobile security systems? 54:43 - What were some of the most interesting deployments made by Andrew Nichols? 1:00:39 - Some new things that will prevail in mobile security in the next 5 years 1:09:27 - Where can people connect with Andrew Nichols? 1:10:55 - What keeps Andrew up at night? 1:13:51 - The biggest challenge Andrew has ever faced in his life 1:16:51 - The most impactful person in Andrew's life 1:19:15 - A book, podcast, or source to learn from recommended by Andrew Nichols Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NVIDIA is best known for its production of GPUs and APIs that enable high-performance computing, supercomputing, and power some of the most intense applications across the world. Unsurprisingly, the company is deeply involved in AI, and on this week's podcast, the company's VP of Solutions Architecture and Engineering, Marc Hamilton, joins us to share the company's unique insights into the field. Hamilton explains how NVIDIA's innovative AI Factory concept allows it to introduce efficiencies into the data gathering process. He uses the example of self-driving cars to just how effective the NVIDA approach is. To manually collect all the data on all the roads in the world, the researchers would need to travel 11 billion miles. However, NVIDIA can leverage simulations of roads to “teach” the AI powering these cars synthetically. Hamilton then describes the fascinating advancements of digital twins – a technology idea that has been around for decades but only just now supported by powerful enough technology to handle the AI and other processing requirements for it. This, Hamilton says, can be used for everything from workplace layout simulations that “test” an environment to make sure it's safe to work in before real humans do so, through to creating a digital “twin” of the earth as a way of testing the impact of climate change “700 or 7,000” days down the track. “It's going to be many years before we're done, but we're already making some interesting project progress and seeing some interesting early signs of future success,” he said. With AI certain to be critical to how humanity grapples with the increasingly complex challenges facing it into the future, it is companies like NVIDIA that will at the forefront of our response. Tune in to learn more about the very cutting edge of AI. Enjoy the show! About NVIDIA Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company's invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics and ignited the era of modern AI. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry. More information at https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/ About GTC (GPU Technology Conference) The Technology Conference for the Era of AI and Metaverse Explore the latest technologies and business breakthroughs. Learn from experts how AI and the evolution of the 3D Internet are profoundly impacting industries—and society as a whole. Don't miss the GTC 2022 keynote. Jensen Huang | Founder and CEO | NVIDIA Take a closer look at the game-changing technologies that are helping us take on the world's greatest challenges. Free to Register and the event you do not want to miss! Join us in Melbourne for Scaling AI with MLOPS: https://www.datafuturology.com/mlops Thank you to our sponsor, Talent Insights Group! Join our Slack Community: https://join.slack.com/t/datafuturologycircle/shared_invite/zt-z19cq4eq-ET6O49o2uySgvQWjM6a5ng Read the full podcast episode summary here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/datafuturology/message

Spyridon Antonopoulos is Director of Solutions Architecture at Solidus Labs, providing trade surveillance, transaction monitoring, and threat intelligence to corporates. In this episode, Spiro discusses how the insurance life cycle can begin to cover crypto assets, for example using photo and video evidence as part of the risk assessment and claims process.  Spiro has experience in the Life, Annuities, and Long Term Care insurance verticals, spending the first decade of his career advising senior leadership at many of the Top-100 North American carriers across new business, underwriting, and claims.  Follow the Insurtech Leadership Podcast airing weekly hosted by Joshua R. Hollander. We give you up-close access and personal insights from the leaders of the fastest-growing #insurtechs and most innovative #insurance carriers and brokers.

Darren Pulsipher, Chief Solutions Architect, Intel, and Dr. Hadi Ahmadi, Director of Solutions Architecture, Katana Graph discuss the benefits of graph databases. Blog: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/government/podcasts/embracing-digital-transformation-episode97.html Video: https://youtu.be/h06tRFkeK-E

Everyone hates dealing with passwords, and yet they've been the de facto standard of computer authentication for decades. But there's light at the end of this long tunnel. There is a passwordless future where we can log in to our accounts using just our smartphones. In this future, it won't matter if websites are breached because there will be no password databases to steal. Even phishing will be a thing of the past. And thankfully, that future isn't far away. Today I'll discuss where we are, how we got here, and where we're going with Yubico's Derek Hanson. Derek Hanson has been involved in the identity and security industry for over ten years.  He has been building networks and deploying computer systems since the mid-90s and now is an advocate for how you can best protect them. And he is now the VP of Solutions Architecture and Alliances at Yubico. Further Info Yubico/YubiKey: https://www.yubico.com/ NIST password guidelines: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blogs/nist-password-guidelines/ OPM fingerprint database hack: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/opm-now-admits-5-6m-feds-fingerprints-stolen-hackers/ WebAuthn: https://webauthn.guide/ FIDO: https://fidoalliance.org/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/newsletter/new-newsletter/Become a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/FirewallsDontStopDragons Would you like me to speak to your group about security and/privacy? http://bit.ly/Firewalls-SpeakerGenerate secure passphrases! https://d20key.com/#/ Table of Contents (new!) Use these timestamps to jump to a particular section of the show. 0:01:01: Welcome new patrons!0:01:41: New table of contents0:03:40: Update Windows ASAP0:04:03: Pre-interview notes0:04:34: Interview start0:06:21: Why do we still use passwords?0:11:26: Why don't more people use password managers?0:15:25: NIST updates password recommendations0:17:50: Should we use biometrics for authentication?0:23:40: How do passwordless systems compare to what we have now?0:29:00: How does authentication work in a passwordless system?0:32:50: Have we settled on a single passwordless standard?0:37:24: How well is this new standard supported?0:40:41: How do I use this passwordless technology?0:43:00: How soon will we see passwordless logins?0:46:22: Which 2FA system is best and will we still need this going forward?0:51:33: What current technologies are best for securing our accounts?0:55:18: How do hardware keys work?1:00:42: OPM fingerprint hack1:01:48: Bonus content preview1:02:02: Upcoming shows

The education world is constantly changing and growing, and technology is consistently a factor in that change. In our new technology-forward education industry, cybersecurity is a major factor in protecting students, educators, and communities. In this episode of the CoSN podcast presented by Dell Technologies, we discuss current cybersecurity industry standards and the exciting CoSN “CyberSecurity Leadership Game” with Amy McLaughlin, Frankie Jackson, and Matt Dascoli. Amy McLaughlin is the Executive Director, Technical and Solutions Architecture at Oregon State University and Cyber Security & Network Consultant & Project Lead at CoSN. Frankie Jackson is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Texas K-12 Chief Technology Officer Council and project director for the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools at CoSN. Matthew Dascoli is the Senior Manager of K12 Education Strategy at Dell Technologies. Amy, Frankie, and Matt serve the larger education community in their respective work on the “Cybersecurity Leadership Game.” In aspiring collaboration and evolving school leadership, Amy, Matt, and Frankie are all actively involved in revolutionizing the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. Building Cybersecurity Leadership Capacity, One Game at a Time! Learn more about the “CyberSecurity Leadership Game” by visiting: https://www.cosn.org/edtech-topics/cybersecurity/cybersecurity-game/ This episode of The CoSN Podcast is supported by Dell Technologies. Learn more at https://www.dell.com/en-us. Engage further in the discussion on Twitter. Follow: @CoSN @MindRocketMedia @DellTech The CoSN Podcast is produced in partnership with MindRocket Media Group and published on edCircuit. To learn more about CoSN, visit www.cosn.org. Learn more about MindRocket Media Group at www.mindrocketmediagroup.com.

Amanda Giacobassi, Director of Solutions Architecture at Perkuto, joins our host, Camela Thompson, in this episode of the Revenue Marketing Report. Amanda shares why working in a reactive Marketing Operations team is demoralizing, how to avoid the chaos with processes, and why we need good marketing management practices.   The transcript: https://www.calibermind.com/rmr/marketing-operations-pitfalls

Connor Jeffers, Founder and CEO of Aptitude 8 who joins the show to talk about solutions architecture. We start with his definition of solutions architecture and how it compares to other technical roles like systems administrators, RevOps professionals, developers, and sales engineers. We talk about solutions architect development and how to raise the bar for technical expertise and systems design—and whether these folks are primarily homegrown or sought externally. Lastly, we wrap with A8 Labs and the recent acquisition of Appchemist. Should more partners be thinking more about HubSpot's app ecosystem?

COSN CEO, Keith Kruger, and cybersecurity expert, Amy McLaughlin, discuss cybersecurity. McLaughlin suggests cyber security should not be the work of the school district's IT Department only, it is the work of the entire school district and part of the culture. Kruger and McLaughlin discuss why school districts are at risk for cyber security attacks, followed by specific steps districts and individuals can take to protect their information and data. This podcast is full of valuable information to better understand the need for cybersecurity in school districts and specific steps IT Departments can take to better protect data and information. For more information visit www.COSN.org About our guests: Keith has a global reputation as a key thought leader and has organized senior level U.S. delegations to visit Australia, Asia, Europe and South America to examine best practice in ICT in education. Keith R. Krueger is CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a nonprofit organization that serves as the voice of K-12 school system technology leaders in North America. CoSN's mission is empowering educational leaders to leverage technology to realize engaging learning environments. He was selected by Ed Tech magazine for it's 2021 K-12 IT influencers. In 2016 Technology & Learning selected him as one of the “big 10” most influential people in ed tech, and the Center for Digital Education identified him as a Top 30 Technologist/Transformer/Trailblazer. In 2008 he was selected by eSchool News as one of ten people who have had a profound impact on educational technology over the last decade. In 2016 he received a Special Recognition award from the Council of Great City Schools. He is the current Chair of the Learning First Alliance and is on the Executive Committee of the National Coalition on Technology in Education & Training (NCTET). He serves on many Advisory Boards including the Friday Institute at NC State University, the Public Policy Advisory Council for the American Library Association, Ed Tech Digest, as well as previously the Education Committee of the National Park System. He is principal investigator of the Driving K-12 Innovation series. An experienced information technology and information security professional, Amy has over twenty years' experience building, implementing, and securing information systems, including 10 years in K-12 and higher education. As a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), she has been responsible for protecting data covered by a broad range of federal and state regulations including HIPAA, FERPA, IRS 1075, and the Oregon Identity Theft Protection Act. She holds a Master of Science in Information Technology Management and a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy. Amy currently serves as CoSN's Subject Matter Expert for Cybersecurity and Networking, and as the Executive Director of Technical & Solutions Architecture for Oregon State University.