Best Splunk Podcasts (2026)

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AI data management and governance take center stage in 2026 27:58

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You might recognize Rob Strechay from his appearances on TheCube livestreaming videos during industry conferences, but he's worn many hats in the industry over the years. In this wide-ranging discussion, he looks back at how AI data management evolved in 2025, and predicts that AI "governance, security and data quality are going to be all the rage …

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001 [Welcome Episode] - Why Courage Comes Before Clarity: The Turning Points Women Rarely Talk About 4:25

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Do you feel like you’re close to a breakthrough? Even if everything around you still looks the same? Then you’re in the right place. I’m Parul Saini, and I’ve learned that real change rarely starts loud. It starts quietly, inside moments that look ordinary but feel different. This is where The Courage Curve begins. It’s the point where steady choic…

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002: Choosing Depth Over Visibility: Judy Juanita on Voice, Time, and Quiet Breakthroughs 1:02:28

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Judy Juanita is a poet, novelist, playwright, professor, and lifelong cultural force. She grew up in Oakland during the civil rights era and became part of the original Black Panther Party, working behind the scenes as a journalist and editor at a time when women’s labor often went unseen. This conversation moves through memory, activism, art, and …

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Behind the scenes with AIOps in Salesforce Hyperforce 23:51

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As it rolled out AI and AIOps, Salesforce shunned the cloud repatriation route and instead expanded its public cloud presence with Hyperforce. Paul Constantinides, an engineering leader at Salesforce for more than 21 years, currently leads engineering for Hyperforce. In this episode, he details the evolution of the Salesforce internal platform over…

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'Back to the Future' with self-hosted bare metal 25:44

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Rob Hirschfeld is the CEO and co-founder of RackN, founded in 2014, focused on "addressing the messy challenge of operating at scale in physical data centers," according to his LinkedIn profile. Hirschfeld has had a front-row seat to the last decade of conversations in enterprise IT ops about bare-metal server operations and cloud repatriation, top…

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JFrog ML CTO on enterprise AI software supply chain security 22:52

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Yuval Fernbach has more than a decade of hands-on experience in the realm of data and machine learning, and served as the co-founder and CTO of Qwak from 2020 until it was acquired by JFrog in 2024. Fernbach is now vice president and CTO of JFrog ML, a subset of the JFrog software supply chain management toolset focused on AI and machine learning o…

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ServiceNow AI maven on AI agent evolution 23:15

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Enterprise service management platform vendor ServiceNow has been one of the most assertive in the industry in developing its AI agent products over the past 14 months. Our guest, Dorit Zilbershot, has been with ServiceNow for six years, serving in various product management leadership roles focused on AI. In this interview, she shares recent Servi…

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Measuring the ROI on AI: Extracting Value for Humans & Businesses with Weatherford’s Sarah Karthigan 45:06

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Human-centered AI is transforming the energy sector at a scale we never imagined possible. Sarah Karthigan, Vice President of AI at Weatherford, is a driving force behind launching AI at scale across oil field services, making measurable impacts in productivity and financial returns. Formally, she created AI and enterprise data strategies that revo…

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Cloud-native platform engineering in the enterprise 19:02

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The director of engineering for a Fortune 20 automotive company shares his thoughts on the latest in cloud-native technologies for platform engineers during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025. He also discusses ways platform engineering can address common cybersecurity risks, including software supply chain security. Finally, Saxena gives …

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CNCF Surveys highlight cloud-native AI connections 18:54

2M ago18:54

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Bob Killen, senior technical program manager at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), shares highlights from two survey reports released this week during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025: The 2025 State of Cloud Native Development report and AI Tech Radar Report. According to Killen, the results show that cloud-native technology …

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Oracle's Sudha Raghavan on AI's infrastructure renaissance 27:57

2M ago27:57

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Oracle senior vice president Sudha Raghavan manages all expansions and new buildouts for some of the world's largest infrastructure platforms supporting GPU clusters, including network design. As the company prepares to build new gigawatt data centers worldwide, she explains how its database heritage helps in operating increasingly demanding data c…

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How GitHub Code Quality connects to AppSec 22:22

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It's our first on-location episode! At GitHub Universe, Katie Norton, Research Manager for IDC's DevSecOps and software supply chain security practice, explains how a new extension to GitHub's CodeQL reflects increased awareness of security as a dimension of code quality. She also discusses the shifting strategic partnerships and competition that c…

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Splunk exec on AI observability's "double-edged sword" 15:45

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Patrick Lin from Splunk discusses how observability extends beyond IT, highlighting its importance in improving business decisions, customer support, and revenue. The interview also covers challenges in enterprise observability, like standardization and teamwork, along with the changing role of AI in observability methods. AI automation can help ob…

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Cribl CEO talks AI data management, MCP and AI bubble 23:56

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Observability and security company Cribl has had a front-row seat to the rise of generative AI, AI agents, and their impact on data management in IT. The company, which grew from log management into federated search, a data pipeline, a data lake, and a cloud-based managed service, also expanded its product offerings this week with notebooks for obs…

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Atlassian Rovo AI grows to 3 million monthly users 21:02

3M ago21:02

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What a difference six months makes: after adjusting its product pricing and bundling in April during its Team 25 US conference, Atlassian now says adoption for its Rovo AI products has taken off. The company's head of AI product talks about what changed, what's new at the Team 25 Europe conference this week, and what's ahead for Atlassian AI. Featu…

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Powering Possibility: Human-centered AI and Energy Innovation with Suraiya Khoja 54:14

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When you think about AI, is it merely a tool or an agent for change? Suraiya Khoja, VP of Product & Enterprise Innovation at NRG, spends her days leading an incredible team, turning energy data into real-time insights and systems that serve people across the value chain. Working at the intersection of analytics, transformation, and innovation, Sura…

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Splunk CTO Cory Minton goes beyond the dashboard and explores human potential, AI agents, and the machine frontier. 1:09:05

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As F1 gets a blockbuster endorsement this summer, key players behind the scenes are bringing a new level of urgency and insight from the pit lane into everyday life. Cory Minton, Global CTO at Splunk, is in the AI fast lane, working with some of the world’s largest companies to make complex systems more secure and partnering with McLaren F1 to make…

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Ideas That Fly with AI: Turning Complexity into Capability 1:11:59

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Air travel just got a little more automated, thanks to leaders like Southwest’s Angela Marano, Exec Advisor, VP of AI and Data Transformation, and Nicola Smith, Senior AI Programs Advisor. From avoiding delays to improving customer service, AI is reshaping operations on the ground and in the air—and Angela and Nicola are making sure it’s done with …

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Former Google Exec, Abigail Posner, Brings Humanity to Tech: Can AI & Human Creativity Coexist? 53:38

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“We are no longer in a universe where incremental change is enough to guarantee business growth.” Google’s Director of Creative Works Abigail Posner has spent her career linking the human experience to advancing technology. With AI presenting new challenges and opportunities to the business world, Abigail encourages professionals across industries …

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AWS VP plans Amazon Bedrock Agents observability and more 23:48

7M ago23:48

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The leader of search, observability, and cloud operations at Amazon Web Services outlines her strategic perspective on monitoring AI agent systems such as Amazon Bedrock Agents. Ultimately, she envisions unified visibility, including security, across AI workflows, from silicon to application, both inside and outside AWS. Featuring: Nandini Ramani, …

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Trailer 0:32

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Step into the world of intrapreneurs - innovators inside organizations - who ignite inspiration, fuel innovation, and unleash imagination against all odds. Prompting Potential spotlights bold individuals and influential ideas at the intersection of leadership, technology, and transformation. From integrating AI to driving meaningful change, these i…

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Dancing with AI: AI risks, rewards and the evolution of SREs 28:31

7M ago28:31

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Experienced IT practitioners offer their predictions for how AI will change observability, the role of the site reliability engineer and incident management within enterprise organizations, from best-case scenarios to pitfalls and risks. Come for the 40 combined years of IT ops expertise, stay for the "Highlander" references and football analogies.…

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Datadog AI researcher teaches time-series models new tricks 33:26

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Ameet Talwalkar joined observability vendor Datadog in February to lead a new AI research lab at the company. He is also an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. One of the first projects from the lab was released to open source in May – Toto, a foundation model trained on real-world observability data. Talwalkar discusses how Toto cou…

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The good, the bad and the ugly of AI and observability 29:39

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Steve Koelpin is a seasoned engineer and award-winning data strategist who specializes in observability, logging, and data pipelines at high scale. In his experience, generative AI in observability tools can help reduce the time it takes to resolve IT incidents, but can also foment dependence on a 'black box' tool. There's also the matter of feedin…

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Enterprises adapt to generative AI operations 20:52

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Nancy Gohring is a senior research director at IDC, focused on big picture trends related to enterprise AI adoption, including business, organizational and technology architecture transformation in the context of AI and GenAI. In this wide-ranging interview, Gohring gives the big-picture view of the challenges and changes GenAI represents for enter…

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GenAI and business transformation 27:33

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Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Torsten Volk says he spends so much time playing with generative AI tools that "if I used fewer, I'd get a lot more done." But judiciously used -- and with plenty of human oversight -- LLMs and AI agents can be catalysts for fundamentally changing businesses, from application modernization to massive data processin…

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Get ready to meet your new digital coworkers 26:07

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One of the enterprise tech industry's most influential voices on all things AI, independent analyst Andy Thurai, says in a wide-ranging discussion that IT pros should prepare to work with AI agents in the very near future, despite unanswered questions about their orchestration and the reliability of their decision-making.…

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Mitigating AI's unique risks 25:40

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"AI is not just another technology layer; it's a distinct stack with its own complexities and risks," according to Coralogix CEO Ariel Assaraf. In this episode, Assaraf details those unique issues and how his company plans to address them using its recent acquisition, Aporia.By Informa TechTarget

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StarTree founder positions Apache Pinot for AI observability 24:40

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Kishore Gopalakrishna says that the observability market is ripe for disruption in the AI age, particularly at the storage and query layer. The former LinkedIn architect is now co-founder and CEO of StarTree, which offers a real time analytics platform based on Apache Pinot. The company has a preview version of its StarTree Cloud service for observ…

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Episode 40 - Rise of Enterprise Security Browsers 4:40

8M ago4:40

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The emergence of the enterprise browser represents a significant step forward in cyber security innovation. Ignoring this evolution is no longer an option for security-conscious organizations looking to stay ahead of the curve in the ongoing cyber arms race

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LLMs vs AIOps: have we seen this movie before? 17:32

9M ago17:32

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Gartner analyst Gregg Siegfried reflects on the previous generation of AIOps tools that never quite lived up to their "NoOps" promise, looks at how generative AI tools have already affected IT ops pros' day to day work, and predicts the ways AI agents are poised to even more dramatically alter the observability and IT automation landscape.…

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The 'What-Ifs' of generative AI 22:18

9M ago22:18

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Mark Tomlinson is senior director of performance and observability for digital payments provider FreedomPay. He previously worked for PayPal and also served as Chief Performacologist, founder and host of the PerfBytes podcast from 2012 to 2023. He talks about how his company uses generative AI tools in its observability practices, imagines the futu…

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Generative AI and the next AIOps frontier 23:42

9M ago23:42

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Alois Reitbauer is chief technology strategist, head of open source and the leader of research at observability vendor Dynatrace. He is a contributor to CNCF open source standards such as the Keptn event-driven orchestration project and OpenFeature for feature flag management. His Dynatrace bio also describes him as "a regular conference speaker, b…

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OpenTelemetry in the age of AI 35:56

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The rise of generative and agentic AI is also OpenTelemetry's moment to shine – in an increasingly non-deterministic world, there's a lot to be said for a standard means of collecting telemetry data about system behavior. However, it can be difficult to get a consensus on everything, especially developers' preferences about instrumenting code. This…

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Envisioning observability in 3D with knowledge graphs 21:31

10M ago21:31

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What if you could see your application and infrastructure represented spatially instead of two-dimensional dashboard tabs, similar to atoms in a molecule or stars in the sky? According to Matt Young, founder and co-chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) technical advisory group (TAG) on observability, this will soon be a reality than…

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Charity Majors on AI observability and a call to action for SREs 23:30

10M ago23:30

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Charity Majors pioneered the term 'observability' as co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb.io, based on her experience building and managing distributed systems at Parse, Facebook, and Linden Lab building Second Life. She is the co-author of the O'Reilly books Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. Her Honeycomb bio adds that she…

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Trailer: IT Ops Query Season 3: Observability in the Age of AI 2:14

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Multifaceted connection points are emerging between observability and AI, from monitoring and improving AI models themselves to observing the ways the behavior of AI agents differs from traditional web apps. In short, AI-driven automation makes new kinds of observability workflows both necessary and possible. This season of IT Ops Query will featur…

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2024 in review and 2025 predictions with Dan Lorenc 21:05

1y ago21:05

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Sigstore creator, Chainguard CEO, OpenSSF TAC member and Season 1 guest Dan Lorenc returns to discuss the year in open source and security. Topics range from software supply chain management, hardening container images and SBOMs in limbo to open product companies and business models, including his own company's shift in focus this year. Plus: a loo…

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The arc of SecOps is long, but bends toward improvement 24:23

1y ago24:23

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S&P Global Market Intelligence principal research analyst Daniel Kennedy discusses what the results of his Voice of the Enterprise research project dating back to 2015 reveal about the notion of a cybersecurity skills shortage; the effects of the Crowdstrike outage on a long-running debate about unified cybersecurity platforms vs best-of-breed vend…

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Back to the future in business resilience post-CrowdStrike 21:17

1y ago21:17

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SecOps, developers and infrastructure ops teams are often encouraged to work more closely together within IT, but for one industry analyst, the CrowdStrike outage exposed an even more significant gap between IT and businesses. Charles Betz is vice president and principal analyst for enterprise architecture at Forrester Research. He has also worked …

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Questioning shift left: changing tech and security roles 20:50

1y ago20:50

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In October, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a report that's still generating buzz in the security world – it questioned the data sources in often-cited reports about the value of "shifting left". Another section of the CISA report called into question the idea that security flaws cause people to stop using product…

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Gen AI kicks multi-cloud security into overdrive 24:15

1y ago24:15

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Doug Merritt was CEO of Splunk from 2015 to 2021 and led the company's transition from an on-premises software company to a cloud-based service provider. After two years in the venture capital and board advisory space, Merritt joined multi-cloud networking company Aviatrix as CEO in 2023. That company introduced its first security product, a distri…

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Airgaps over AI? Cyberdefense pro's tips and predictions 23:14

1y ago23:14

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Robert Slaughter is CEO of Defense Unicorns, a defense tech startup specializing in Airgap software delivery in highly secure and sensitive environments in the military and federal government. Previously, he was director of the U.S. Department of Defense's Platform One DevSecOps project and co-founder at Space CAMP, a predecessor of Platform One fo…

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SecOps "where bits and bytes meet flesh and blood" 25:00

1y ago25:00

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Joshua Corman is executive in residence for public safety & resilience at The Institute for Security and Technology (IST), a non-profit think tank based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also co-leader of a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) community working group for SBOM on-ramps & adoption. Previously, he was vice presid…

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Lessons from a "graybeard" in assessing cloud risk 22:52

1y ago22:52

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Chris Steffen is vice president of research for information security at analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates. He previously held a variety of IT leadership roles at companies including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and DXC Technology. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences, the host of the Cybersecurity Awesomeness podcast and a fre…

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Data, observability and the future of DevSecOps 17:48

1y ago17:48

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Esteban Gutierrez is chief information security officer and vice president of information security at observability vendor New Relic. Previously, he was an enterprise information security strategist at Intel, and he managed the network operations and security center for the US Army Corps of Engineers. He shares takeaways from New Relic's recent Sta…

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From Sony breach to CrowdStrike, IT Ops-SecOps rift deepened 16:26

1+ y ago16:26

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Rich Lane is currently IT director at the City of Medford, Massachusetts, and has had a varied career in IT infrastructure and operations. He served as VP of digital operations strategy for data security software vendor Netenrich from 2021 to 2022, and as a Forrester Research analyst from 2018 to 2021. Before that, Lane worked as a professional ser…

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What SecOps pros can learn from Microsoft security overhaul 21:30

1+ y ago21:30

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Melinda Marks is cybersecurity practice director for TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group analyst firm. Previously, she held a variety of roles in the IT and cybersecurity industry, including marketing and PR leadership positions at vendors such as VMware, Qualys, Tenable Network Security. Just before joining ESG in 2021, she was chief strategy o…

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Cloud security, AI giveth and taketh away 20:19

1+ y ago20:19

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Kyler Middleton is senior principal software engineer at healthcare tech company Veradigm. She is also founder, owner, and CEO at 14ers Consulting, an IT services and engineering firm, as well as the co-host of her own podcast, Day Two DevOps and the founder of an IT training website, LetsDoDevOps.com. Her LinkedIn profile says, "I will teach you. …

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How KnowBe4 caught an impostor employee in 25 minutes 23:26

1+ y ago23:26

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Brian Jack is chief information security officer and data protection officer at KnowBe4, a security awareness training software vendor based in Clearwater, Florida. The company made headlines in July when it thwarted an attempt by a North Korean nation-state actor to infiltrate its software engineering staff. The company did hire the attacker, who …