PICNIC-Podcast by Ipswitch: Recent Episodes
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In Today’s PICNIC episode, we will welcome Scoot Foote, Cybersecurity Expert.
Scott is a senior high-tech executive with more than 30 years of experience in cybersecurity and the broader software industry; serving both the public and private sectors. His primary area of expertise has been information security since the late 1980s; however, Scott’s technical experience ranges from operating system kernel technologies, to the gamut of filesystem / database and info storage, to network engineering, to packaged commercial applications such as SCADA, B2B and CRM solutions. His management experience spans the product lifecycle, with a specific focus on complex systems engineering and solution roadmap planning – including operational prototyping, rapid-growth product evolution, market [...]
For our first PICNIC episode of 2018, we welcome our friend and returning guest Adam Bertam, Chief Automator at Adam the Automator LLC.
Adam Bertram is an automation engineer, blogger, independent consultant, freelance writer, author, trainer, and presenter. Adam focuses on DevOps, system management, and automation technologies as well as various cloud platforms. He is a Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, a passionate learner and efficiency nerd that enjoys teaching others a better way to leverage automation. You can find Adam at his adamtheautomator.com blog, LinkedIn or on Twitter at @adbertram.
Ever since the introduct [...]
In Today’s PICNIC episode, we welcome our friend and frequent guest Adam Bertam, Chief Automator at Adam the Automator LLC.
Adam Bertram is an automation engineer, blogger, independent consultant, freelance writer, author, trainer, and presenter. Adam focuses on DevOps, system management, and automation technologies as well as various cloud platforms. He is a Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, a passionate learner and efficiency nerd that enjoys teaching others a better way to leverage automation. You can find Adam at his adamtheautomator.com blog, LinkedIn or on Twitter at @adbertram.
Adam Bertram is also a PowerShell gu [...]
In Today’s PICNIC episode, we are pleased to welcome Joy Beland, President at Pink Hat Technology Management.
Since starting her consulting practice in 1997, Joy’s ability to develop solid and creative technology solutions has brought efficiency and affordability to small and medium businesses alike. Joy began her consulting practice with Hebrew Union College (HUC), for eight years. In her first role as Network Administrator (1997-2004), Joy single-handedly supported five servers and 105 computers. As Joy added more technicians to her team, it enabled her to focus on securing more small business clients, obtain Microsoft Certifications, and align LA IT Girl with the industry’s most notable vendor partners. Her extensive experience in implementing business plans, setting and achie [...]
In this PICNIC episode, we will welcome David Monahan, Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates.
David is a senior information security executive with several years of experience. He has organized and managed both physical and information security programs, including security and network operations (SOCs and NOCs) for organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies to local government and small public and private companies. He has diverse audit and compliance and risk and privacy experience such as providing strategic and tactical leadership to develop, architect, and deploy assurance controls; delivering process and policy documentation and training; and working on educational and technical solutions.
Prior to joining Enterprise Management Associates, David [...]
In this week’s PICNIC episode, we welcome Kevin Lancaster, CEO, ID Agent. Kevin has served as Chief Executive Officer of ID Agent since its founding in 2015. Kevin also serves as CEO of the Winvale Group, a leading provider of advisory, research and strategic consulting services to government contractors across various industries and disciplines, since co-founding the company in 2003. In early 2017, he founded GovernmentContract.com, which provides education and training for businesses to successfully sell to the federal government. Kevin is an Executive Committee and Board of Directors member of the Maryland Tech Council and serves on the board of directors for the Navy Youth Hockey Association.
Kevin and his companies have earned several industry awards and accolades [...]
In Today’s PICNIC episode, we will welcome a returning guest: Dennis Drogseth, EMA (enterprise Management Associates) Vice President.
Dennis joined EMA in 1998 and currently manages the New Hampshire office. Dennis brings over thirty years of experience and supports EMA through leadership in Business Service Management (BSM), CMDB Systems, automation systems and service-centric financial optimization. Dennis also works across practice areas to promote dialogs across critical areas of technology and market interdependencies. Prior to this, Dennis helped to build the network management practice area at EMA.
At EMA, Dennis has pioneered research in converging management strategies such as performance/availability and integrated security. Another focus is on changing o [...]
In this PICNIC episode, we welcome Arun Vishwanath to talk about The Psychology of Users Falling for Social Engineering Tactics. The host is Greg Mooney.
Arun Vishwanath, Ph.D., MBA, is Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Arun’s research focuses on the “people problems” of cyber security. His particular interest is in understanding why organizational insiders willingly exfiltrate sensitive organizational data, why people become unintentional insiders by falling prey to social engineering attacks, and on ways we can harness this understanding to secure cyber space
His research has been presented at leading outlets from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab to the U [...]
In Today’s PICNIC episode, our host Greg Mooney welcomes Adam Bertram and his guests Jeffrey Hicks and Michael Greene. We’ll be having a discussion, in a roundtable format, on the “whats” and “whys” of this popular scripting language.
A little bit about our guests:
Adam Bertram is Chief Automator at Adam the Automator LLC. He is an automation engineer, blogger, independent consultant, freelance writer, author, trainer, and presenter. Adam focuses on DevOps, system management, and automation technologies as well as various cloud platforms. He is a Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, a passionate learner and efficiency nerd that enjoys teaching others a better way to leverage automat [...]
In this week’s PICNIC episode, we will welcome Robert Woodbury Jr, Ipswitch Global Marketing Programs Manager.
Robert joined Ipswitch in February 2016 and currently manages the creation and execution of global marketing programs for Ipswitch. Robert’s role at Ipswitch began as a member of the Demand Generation Team, focusing on Data Management and International Marketing program execution. Throughout his time with the Ipswitch Marketing Team, his experience managing two Marketo instances along with multi-channel marketing initiatives, has made him a valuable and proven Marketing Operations professional.
Outside of working at Ipswitch, Robert enjoys spending time with his two cats: Oliver and Pumpkin, watching all Boston sports teams, and enjoying his favorite [...]
In Today’s PICNIC episode, we will welcome Bojan Simic, Founder at Digital Enterprise Journal.
Bojan Simic is Founder of Digital Enterprise Journal, a media and research firm focused on digital transformation and the business value of technology deployments. Bojan has been an analyst and entrepreneur in the enterprise technology industry for more than 10 years.
As an industry analyst, Bojan has interviewed tens of thousands of IT and business professionals from end-user organizations and has published more than 100 research reports. Bojan is frequently quoted in leading industry publications and he has presented his research findings at hundreds of market-facing events.
Prior to launching Digital Enterprise Journal, Bojan was President and Principal Analyst at TRAC Re [...]
In Today’s PICNIC episode, we will welcome Mike Paquette Director of Product, Security Market at Elastic.
Mike joined Elastic in 2016 from Prelert, where he’d been VP of Products for Prelert’s machine learning technology. Mike’s focus at Elastic is to help users and customers succeed with security-related applications of the Elastic Stack. Mike has over 30 years of technology product development experience, including leadership roles with several startups. He has worked in development of SIEM solutions, and spent 14 years developing and bringing to market network IPS and DDoS Defense solutions at Top Layer Security, where he also led development of network monitoring solutions.
Mike has written white papers on IPS and published security-related art [...]
In Today’s PICNIC episode, we will welcome Dennis Drogseth, EMA (enterprise Management Associates) Vice President.
Dennis joined EMA in 1998 and currently manages the New Hampshire office. Dennis brings over thirty years of experience and supports EMA through leadership in Business Service Management (BSM), CMDB Systems, automation systems and service-centric financial optimization. Dennis also works across practice areas to promote dialogs across critical areas of technology and market interdependencies. Prior to this, Dennis helped to build the network management practice area at EMA.
At EMA, Dennis has pioneered research in converging management strategies such as performance/availability and integrated security. Another focus is on changing organization [...]
In Today’s PICNIC episode, we will welcome Greg Mooney, Ipswitch Evangelist.
Greg joined Ipswitch 2 years ago as a technologist and data geek with over 10 years of background in tech industry. He has worked in a variety of industries as an IT manager and software tester. Greg is an avid writer on everything IT related, from cyber security to troubleshooting. He hosts two podcasts, Defrag This and The Data Transfer Show.
Today’s episode will be the occasion for Greg to discuss with our host about recent IT news and trends. Make sure to listen to the live podcast and give us a phone call if you have any thought or comment about the on-going discussion.
In Today’s PICNIC episode, we will welcome Jeff Kaplan, THINKstrategies, Inc. Managing Director, www.thinkstrategies.com, the only strategic consulting firm focused entirely on the business implications of the transition of the technology industry from a product-centric to services-driven solution model, including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing and Managed Services, and how organizations can leverage these trends to capitalize on Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT).
THINKstrategies helps IT/business decision-makers with their sourcing strategies; solution providers with their go-to-market strategies; and venture firms with their investment strategies.
Kaplan is also the Founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace (www.cloudshowplace.com [...]
In Today’s PICNIC episode, we will welcome George General, Ipswitch’s Senior System Engineer.
George has been working for Ipswitch for 5 years. His role on the team is to specialize in network connectivity for the LAN/WAN, network security, and network monitoring. Prior to that George was in the Army for 12 years specializing in Network Operations (NETOPS) as a Chief Warrant Officer. This consisted of routing, switching, COMSEC, satellites, network security, and spectrum management.
At the occasion of today’s episode, we will better understand what a helpdesk team-member typical day looks like as well as learn from George’s best and weirdest IT help requests, not to say stories!
In Today’s PICNIC episode, we will welcome Eric Turnquist, Ipswitch’s Senior Director of Information Technology.
Eric is a 20-year veteran of IT, with a passion for IT transformation. He joined Ipswitch in June of 2015, where he has focused on building the IT team to align with the changing current and future needs of Ipswitch. Eric’s technical experience is focused mostly on virtualization, storage and mail systems within a wide range of industries and company sizes.
At the occasion of today’s episode, we will listen to Eric’s extended experience and best practices/advices to learn about:
- How much of his time is spent on maintaining existing apps vs new projects?
- What kinds of things he is attending to in that time?
- When [...]
In Today’s PICNIC episode, we will welcome John Stewart, Ipswitch’s Network Infrastructure and Security Director.
John has been an IT professional since 1995, with responsibilities involving security for most of that time He attended his first SANS conference in 1997, which opened his eyes to many security risks. He has been with Ipswitch since 2010, and works out of the Madison office.
John has more than 14 years of experience implementing a diverse range of technologies with a focus on IT infrastructure, offering a great level of communications at all levels of technical expertise and is a continuous learner who loves discovering and implementing technologies which improve business operations while containing costs. His key specializations are: Virtualization, VMWare, ES [...]
In Today’s PICNIC episode, we will welcome Rachel Simone, Ipswitch’s Vice President of Enterprise Applications and Technology.
Rachel joined Ipswitch in February 2015 and has more than 25 years of experience in managing IT teams. She leads the company’s IT team and infrastructure, focused on simplifying and automating business operations to facilitate long-term competitiveness and revenue growth, building a high-performing team to create “best in class” IT systems, designing unified CRM instances and tools, and aligning major IT projects with the company business growth strategy.
Prior to Ipswitch, Rachel held VP roles at Housing Partnership Networks, Dassault System Solidworks Corporation and [...]
Welcome to the P.I.C.N.I.C. Podcast show by Ipswitch. We are excited to launch this week. We are taking the opportunity this first show to tell you the topics and types of guests scheduled over the next several weeks. This is a weekly show and we are so glad you joined us.
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Today you’ll be meeting our hosts, Jeanne Hopkins and Kevin Conklin. You can read more about them on our hosts page. Funnel Radio producer, Paul Roberts, will be interviewing Jeanne live with another segment fe [...]