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Defrag This
by Greg Mooney
Defrag This is a podcast for IT pros that features meaningful trends, commentary on breaking news, and more.We're producing the series because there's a lot of information (and misinformation) out there and we'd like to help you and your fellow IT pros get in front of whatever problem might be around the bend - whether it's a nasty new piece of malware, a hardware failure, or a user screw-up.
Episodes
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Digital asset anxiety: Is the biggest risk to data security in financial services often the most overlooked?
Protecting data remains a high priority with FSI's as high-profile threats portraying complex supply chain attacks, such as the Solarwinds continue to make the headlines. Taking advantage of how organisations move digital assets remains an evergreen attack vector for cybercriminals. Take a listen...
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73: The Security and Legal Issues of 5G
Expert in implementing new critical infrastructure for businesses, Jimmy Jones of Positive Technologies, joins the podcast to discuss the legal and security implications of adopting 5G for critical infrastructure.
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72: Continuous Integration and Development
Alex Oliveri, Director of Professional Services at Progress, joins the Defrag This podcast to discuss the intricacies of continuous integration and development in a DevOps environment.
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71: Data Security in the Automotive Industry
Nat Meron of C2A Security joins the podcast to discuss the advancements in automotive technology, connected cars, autonomous vehicles, and the implications this new tech has on security and compliance in the auto industry.
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70: Managing a Corporate M&A
In this episode of Defrag This, Chris Hickman of Keyfactor joins the podcast to discuss how IT should approach a corporate M&A (merger and acquisition).
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69: IT Cutbacks During the Pandemic
John O'Shaughnessy, Infrastructure Architect and Senior Consultant at Insight Cloud + Data Center Transformation, joins the podcast to discuss the budget issues plaguing IT teams during the pandemic.
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68: 3 Ways Data is Exposed During Pandemic
In this episode, Arun Vishwanath joins the podcast to discuss the rise in phishing scams and social engineering during the pandemic and ways that host Greg Mooney has almost been phished over the past few months.
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67: Progress Releases MOVEit 2020 Managed File Transfer
Progress (formerly Ipswitch) released a new version of their managed file transfer product, MOVEit 2020. The release includes a new mobile app that allows the ability to send and receive sensitive data on mobile devices.
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66: VPNs, Cybersecurity, and Data Privacy During COVID-19
Ted Kim, CEO of Private Internet Access, joins the podcast to chat about VPNs, privacy online, and how the cybersecurity threat landscape has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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65: IT Troubleshooting and Pivoting During the Pandemic
Ben Niernberg, Executive VP of MNJ Tehcnologies, joins the podcast to discuss how IT teams are dealing with hardware shortages, price gouging, and the new normal of supporting a remote workforce.
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64: How IT Can Enable a Remote Workforce
Jason Rader, who is the National Director of Network and Cloud Security at Insight Enterprises, joins the podcast to discuss the issues and solutions of supporting employees who are working from home during the COVID-19 crisis.
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63: Managing eWaste in a Secure and Compliant Manner
Ask any digital forensics team or security researcher, and they will agree that data that is seemingly wiped from a hard drive is not lost forever. John Shegerian, the co-founder of ERI, a leading eWaste company, discusses the implications of eWaste in terms of security and compliance.
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62: Why Cyber Hygiene is So Important
Dr. Arun Vishwanath, a technologist in the field of cybersecurity, joins the podcast to discuss what cyber hygiene is and why people don't treat it the same way as personal hygiene. How can we change how people perceive technology in a way that is secure?
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61: Defending Against Nation Sponsored Attacks
Companies who don't have their systems up to date are to this day running into variants of WannaCry ransomware taking over business-critical systems. Most of these businesses are not even the intended target for these types of advanced persistent threats. So what do we know and how can we better...
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60: A Different Perspective on Shadow IT
Shadow IT usually is the crux of IT teams. It creates an issue of visibility within the IT stack that leaves IT in the dark, hence the name. Often, when shadow IT happens though, it's because IT is not allowing for fast workflows or certain operations are a hindrance to agility in the workplace....
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59: Using Automation to Protect Your Business Networks
On the phone today, we have someone who is helping IT and Security teams do just that. Alex Bauert has more than 25 years of IT experience, with 15 of those years spent in architecture and application security leadership roles. He has built and enhanced application security programs at several...
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58: IT Horror Stories
IT professionals join the Defrag This podcast to tell the spookiest stories of their careers.
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57: Information Governance Report by Osterman Research
Greg Mooney and Jeff Edwards discuss a new report released by Osterman Research and sponsored by Progress about how Information Governance is often overlooked when it comes to IT operations cost savings.
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52: EMA Report - Network Performance Management Tools
In the case of network performance management, what are the most important metrics? Also, which tools are IT teams using to get this data to support the business infrastructure? The answer is "many" depending on who you ask.
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51: Have You Met? QBITS
In this latest Have You Met? podcast series, Greg Mooney chats with Daniel Hotz about manage file transfer solutions and how QBits is implementing manage file transfer tools in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
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49: Have You Met? L8 Solutions
In this latest Have You Met? podcast, Greg Mooney chats with L8 Solutions on their continued success as an Ipswitch partner and how they are providing stellar IT solutions and services to their clients in the UK.
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Defragging March 2019
We're bringing you March's security and IT news!
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46: How DevOps Teams are Using Network Monitoring Tools
If your company isn't developing software, just wait five minutes. Many companies that never dreamed they'd be developing their own software are having to "roll their own." Sometimes it's an internal use only, as a custom layer over an existing platform like Salesforce, sometimes as a product...
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45: Log Management Basics - What should You Collect?
Log Management is a hot topic these days, especially in the way it pertains to organizational data security. So in this episode of Defrag This your host Mark Towler sits down with Jim Cashman to quiz the latter on his sysadmin experience with Log Management. This discussion covers what logs an...
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44: 12 Years Later: How the TJX Hack Changed Security and Compliance
In this episode of Defrag This, we're taking a look back at one of the most monumental events in hacker history—the 2007 hack of TJX companies, which was, at the time, the biggest breach of consumer data in the history of the United States.
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43: AI vs Automation For SecOps Teams
Automated systems are not always AI, but AI is an automated system. It's easy to get the two terms confused because they both run off the same thing—data. However, the differences are far reaching and it's important to know the differences between AI and Automation. Security Operations teams, or...
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42: State of GDPR and Brexit 2019
With Brexit in limbo and the GDPR already handing out fines to companies in noncompliance, companies who work in the confines of the EU and UK are left with little details as to how to navigate the minefield that is compliance. We talked to a lawyer who is an expert in GDPR compliance to learn…
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41: What it's like to Start Your Own IT Website
Well-known PowerShell expert and Ipswitch contributer Adam Bertram, AKA Adam the Automator, discusses leaving his day job to start Techsnips.io, an e-learning platform for IT professionals.
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40: State of Data Security
Enterprise companies are coming under increasing scrutiny for their data security practices, or lack thereof depending on who you are talking about. Last month we looked at what transpired over the past year in data security news, but today we are going to take a look into the future of 2019.
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36: GDPR Effectiveness
Cybercrime has only increased and GDPR has yet to be effective. More and more, traditional crime is moving online to the internet because it's far easier to get away with. The laws in place to help regulate society, such as Money Laundering and CCTV Regulations, just aren't on the internet.…
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35: Monitoring Security In AWS
How do you ensure the security of a third of America's web traffic? By comprehensively understanding the different attack vectors around the cloud at the API level, specifically AWS (Amazon web services). And being prepared to react fast. I recently got together with Will Bengtson, a security...
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34: API Security In The Cloud
Too many IT professionals believe that cloud platforms, such as AWS or Google Cloud, handle any cloud-related security. Unfortunately, far too many are caught off guard when they learn that the security of these web services is limited. Yes, you are purchasing a service from them, but the truth…
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33: Dark Web Traffic Analysis
Case studies show that more than half of the traffic on the dark web is illicit, and even the anonymized licit data has no place on the company network. In this episode we talked with Mark Towler, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Ipswitch, and Jim Cashman, Principal Product Manager at Ipswitch...
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31: How to Prepare for a HIPAA Audit
How would you like to walk into an HIPAA audit? Most will go in wondering - or worrying - if the security measures in place reflect their company's due diligence to protect their ePHI (electronic protected health information). Others will have the forethought to be proactive in their situation…
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30: California's New Consumer Privacy Act
The European Union GDPR laws went into effect May 25th. The U.S. is not far behind, and just last week California passed its own group of privacy protection laws meant to protect California residents from the mishandling of their personal information. As companies like Facebook and Equifax who…
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29: What's the Necessary Experience For Entry-Level Cyber Security?
In episode 29 of the Defrag This podcast, we consider what it takes to be a cyber security professional.
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28: 3 Steps for Turning Cybersecurity Fears into an Action Plan w/ Paul McGough
Do the headlines about data breaches and information hacks have you worried, but you don't know where to turn? If you're afraid of having a cybersecurity "guru" take your money without delivering on their outlandish claims, there are some steps you can take to weed out the snake oil salesmen from...
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Defragging April 2018
We're bringing you April's security and IT news!
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27: Going From Reactive mode to Predictive Mode with Connected TAC
Hate seeing that troubleshoot error pop up? Wouldn't it be a lot less taxing when you have the problem identify itself with solutions, instead of you scrambling to fix the issue. Reactive mode can be a stressful operation mode that no company wants to work in, but what if we can go from reactive…
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26: What Can We Learn From the Iranian Phishing Attack
Are you guilty of having one of your passwords set to "Password123" or something similar? Well you're not alone. Having these easy to guess passwords is what allowed the Iranian hackers to gain over 13 billion pages of information. Phishing attacks are becoming inevitable, but as a preventative...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Defrag This is a podcast for IT pros that features meaningful trends, commentary on breaking news, and more.We're producing the series because there's a lot of information (and misinformation) out there and we'd like to help you and your fellow IT pros get in front of whatever problem might be around the bend - whether it's a nasty new piece of malware, a hardware failure, or a user screw-up.
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Defrag This is a podcast for IT pros that features meaningful trends, commentary on breaking news, and more.We're producing the series because there's a lot of information (and misinformation) out there and we'd like to help you and your fellow IT pros get in front of whatever problem might be...
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