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How a Minnesota Law Firm Brings Mission Critical Security to Myriad Mobile Devices
02/12/2024
How a Minnesota Law Firm Brings Mission Critical Security to Myriad Mobile Devices
The next mobile devices security and privacy discussion examines how a new balance needs to be struck between giving users at the remote edge all the productivity they want, while protecting the most sensitive information. to the . Subscribe to it on . Read a or a copy. Stay here to learn how a Minnesota law firm puts the power of diverse mobility to widespread use and keeps confidential and regulated data under strict control. Here to share his story of how to guide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to the edge and back safely is Mark Hatfield, IT Director at , and IT Infrastructure and Security Consultant at , both in St. Paul, Minnesota. The discussion is moderated by , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. to the . Subscribe to it on . Read a or a copy. Sponsor: .
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How IT Security Teams Do More with Less When Economies Rapidly Change
01/18/2024
How IT Security Teams Do More with Less When Economies Rapidly Change
The next IT security best practices discussion examines how a leading German home builder has adjusted to a major economic market disruption. Germany’s home building demand has recently reversed, putting pressure on builders to reduce IT costs while remaining secure. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Stay tuned here to learn how a large, distributed workforce can be best supported by IT -- even as business conditions change and budget requirements lead to broad consolidation. Here to share how an efficient security team helps the shift from managing surging growth to optimizing around necessary contraction is , Information Security Officer at in Simmern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. The discussion is moderated by , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Sponsor: .
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How Accounts Payable Automation and Agility Drive Long-Term Business Productivity
11/13/2023
How Accounts Payable Automation and Agility Drive Long-Term Business Productivity
The next business modernization discussion focuses on how optimizing and automating accounts payable (AP) functions gives businesses improved insights and levers to better transform. We’ll examine how improved control and management over cash flow, payables, and related fiduciary functions elevate overall financial situational awareness. Via adoption of intelligent automation, such new awareness -- and the greater efficiency it produces -- will further support the expected consolidation and convergence of financial operations within the typical office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Here to show how and share his insights as a business operations efficiency veteran and expert is our guest, , Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at . The discussion is moderated by , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Sponsor: .
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How Dashboard Analytics Bolster Security and Risk Management Insights Across IT Supply Chains
09/28/2023
How Dashboard Analytics Bolster Security and Risk Management Insights Across IT Supply Chains
The next security enhancement discussion examines how innovative managers are increasingly benefiting from interactive dashboard analytics. The resulting actionable knowledge elevates security situation awareness to the higher order value of overall business risk assessment and mitigation. Learn how has gained such deep insights -- not only into how its distributed apps, systems, and data are secured, but also into the hidden risks that can develop across entire IT and data services supply chains. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Here to share his story on how to elevate IT security to a mission-critical value of comprehensive risk mitigation and overall business resiliency is , Director of Marketing and IT Strategy at Bruce Auto Group in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. The discussion is moderated by , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Sponsor: .
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How WFH Accelerated IT and Security Transformation at Global Publisher HBG
07/11/2023
How WFH Accelerated IT and Security Transformation at Global Publisher HBG
The next security innovations discussion examines how the rapid shift to remote work has accelerated a rethinking of security and IT processes at a New York-based publishing organization. Rearchitecting the security posture of a business means adjusting work patterns and IT in ways that both reduce risk and heighten performance. But the trick is to do so without alienating workers -- wherever they may be -- and maintaining strong productivity. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Here to share her story on how to digitally transform a traditional business structure, reduce risk factors, and preserve a highly creative culture is , Senior Director of Information Technology Services at (HBG) in New York. The discussion is moderated by , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Sponsor: .
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Why today’s hybrid IT complexity makes 'as a service' security essential
04/24/2023
Why today’s hybrid IT complexity makes 'as a service' security essential
Amid rapidly growing IT security costs and the added complexity of distributed workforces, the challenges facing IT services providers are clearly outrunning past practices. That’s why more automation, integration, and acquiring security “as a service” are in hot demand. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Stay with us now as the next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how is seeking such new ways and new partners to ensure that security incidents are kept in check across a variety of hybrid IT services and scenarios. Here to share his story of increasingly embracing security-as-a-service , Vice President of Cloud Services at Heartland Business Systems (HBS) in Little Chute, Wisconsin. The discussion is moderated by , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Sponsor: .
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For UK MSP, Optimizing Customer Experience is Key to Successful Security Posture and Culture
03/30/2023
For UK MSP, Optimizing Customer Experience is Key to Successful Security Posture and Culture
For managed service providers (MSPs), making the IT infrastructure as invisible as possible isn’t just a “nice-to-have" — it's also elemental to delivering the best customer experience. Securing IT for these tech services and support users is no different. The less complexity and interference with productivity from the underlying security apparatus — the better. The next security innovations discussion examines how Scottish MSP has taken the customer experience imperative to new heights — even as its users move increasingly to hybrid IT models. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Here to share their story of better managing the security experience as a means of enhancing the overall IT services value are , Co-Founder and Director of IT Support Services and Advice at Grant McGregor in Edinburgh, and , Head of IT Service at Grant McGregor. The discussion is moderated by , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Sponsor: .
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Defending the Perimeter Evolves into Securing the User Experience Bubble for UK Cancer Services Provider
03/01/2023
Defending the Perimeter Evolves into Securing the User Experience Bubble for UK Cancer Services Provider
An underappreciated aspect of enhancing is the impact on an end user’s comfort and trust in the services provided. In the case of health care services and support, making the patient feel welcome and safe can be a game-changer as they seek access to needed services and care. The next examines how in the United Kingdom (UK) places the ease of use and sense of security in the services provided as a top IT -- and community service -- requirement. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Here to share their story on how to develop and deliver a cloud-ready security bubble around all users, their activities, and the sensitive data they share is our guest, , Head of Information Security at in London. The interview is moderated by , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Sponsor: .
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A-Core Concrete Sets a Solid Foundation for Preemptive Security
01/25/2023
A-Core Concrete Sets a Solid Foundation for Preemptive Security
A special breed of company -- even though it has a relatively small number of employees -- does very big jobs with those lean and often distributed workforces. A perfect example of such a concentrated and efficient business is , which builds large and complex structures across the Western United States. When it comes to managing IT, the lean-and-mean mantra also holds true. The jack-of-all-trades requirements means that the IT leadership of it is often the head of security. As a prime example, that’s another way that A-Core Concrete shines. to the . Find it on . Read a or a copy. Today’s security innovations discussion examines how A-Core Concrete has created a security culture that relies on centralized administration, proactive insights, and rapid remediation to successfully assure that the whole company operates at peak performance. Here to share the story of how to best balance resilient security with the efficient use of human capital and resources is , Chief Information Officer (CIO) at , in Salt Lake City. The discussion is moderated by , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. to the . Find it on . Read a or a copy. Sponsor: .
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Hybrid Work is the Future, and Innovative Technology Will Define It
09/28/2022
Hybrid Work is the Future, and Innovative Technology Will Define It
We’re all now part of a massive worldwide experiment about the very definition of work. Remote, in-office — or tightrope walking along some sliding scale between the two? How each business and each worker finds the next new work-life balance remains an ongoing "work in progress." In the post-rapid adoption of remote work world -- a full two and half years after the onset of COVID -- there’s no definitive answer on which approach to hybrid work works best. And the technology tools and solutions — many designed for an earlier in-office era — are not necessarily up to the task. The perceptions and preferences of bosses and workers alike are in a seemingly unending transition. Nothing quite seems fit for the new, still-to-be-defined purpose. So, what is the eventual end-state of hybrid work? Will the process of finding it provoke new forms of innovation, opportunity, and technological success? Or will productivity and work-life balance suffer amid a period of tension, power plays, and years of seesawing trial and error approaches to hybrid work? Stay with to explore here the drivers and opportunities to get the future of hybrid work right -- perhaps sooner rather than later. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. To learn more about what makes hybrid work move to an arc of opportunity, and not wallow in a trough of complexity and confusion, please welcome , Founder and CEO of , and , Executive Vice President of Strategy at . The conversation is moderated by , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Sponsor: .
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How Deep Observability Forms the Gift that Keeps Giving for Hybrid IT Security, Performance, and Agility
09/13/2022
How Deep Observability Forms the Gift that Keeps Giving for Hybrid IT Security, Performance, and Agility
For those tasked with delivering unwavering performance of their apps and data, there have never been more unknowns to account for and manage. That’s because today’s hybrid clouds and mixed-network environments come with a multitude of dynamic variables -- and an unprecedented degree of complexity. Yet modern digital business demands that the entire constellation of these far-flung cloud services, resources, and application constituent parts coalesce perfectly. The end result must be real-time and always-on user experiences that delight, and business transactions that are both highly secure and never fail. Bridging the gap between such daunting complexity and awesome performance and security requirements means gaining the best visibility into all aspects of the hybrid- and multi-cloud continuum. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Watch the . Stay with us as explores the ways that moves past the limitations of metrics, events, logs, and traces to deliver far richer and faster data-driven insights. By exploiting these new means of pervasive deep observability, the highest levels of security, performance, and agility can be attained by nearly any business and organization. To learn how, please welcome , Vice-President of Product and Technical Marketing Engineering at . The interview is moderated by , Principal Analyst at . Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. View the . Sponsor: .
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How Deep Observability Powers Strong Cybersecurity and Network Insights Across Complex Cloud Environments
08/23/2022
How Deep Observability Powers Strong Cybersecurity and Network Insights Across Complex Cloud Environments
The growing prevalence of complex multi- and hybrid-cloud environments has opened a of unseen risks around security and performance. But unlike when IT and network operators had the tools and access to track their own internal systems and data, the mixed-cloud model of today is much harder to know and secure. Pandora’s Box is open but observing what’s going on in and around it is cloaked by inadequate means to gain actionable insights amid all the distributed variables. Enter and its capabilities, which are designed to provide rich access to multi-cloud and mixed-network behaviors. Such observations and data gathering can be analyzed to rapidly secure end-to-end applications and protect sensitive data. Stay with as we explore the latest advances around deep observability, and show how a neutral deployment approach for observation technology spans more infrastructure and services to best protect and accelerate digital business success. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. To learn how deep observability puts cloud chaos and hard-to-know risks back under control, BriefingsDirect welcomes , President and CEO of . The discussion is moderated by , Principal Analyst at . Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Sponsor: .
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HPE Accelerates its Sustainability Goals While Improving the Impact of IT on the Environment and Society
06/22/2022
HPE Accelerates its Sustainability Goals While Improving the Impact of IT on the Environment and Society
As businesses worldwide seek to maximize their value to their customers and communities, the total value equation has expanded to now include the . The ways that companies, along with their partners, suppliers, and employees best manage and govern their resources and assets speaks volumes about their place among peers. And it allows them to take a leadership position as stewards and protectors of the future. The sooner the world’s industries develop a commitment to reach a posture, for example, the better for everyone in gaining environmental sustainability. Stay with us as examines how has newly accelerated its many programs and initiatives to reduce its carbon emissions, conserve energy, and reduce waste -- including far earlier net-zero dates and more impactful emission-reduction milestones. Listen here how HPE’s newest living progress report provides a blueprint for other organizations in and outside of the HPE orbit to also hasten and improve their sustainability efforts. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a full or a copy. Here to share the latest on HPE’s plans and goals for broad and lasting sustainability is , Chief Technologist, Sustainable Transformation at HPE. The discussion is moderated by , Principal Analyst at . Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a full or a copy. Sponsor: .
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It’s Official—Flexible and Remote Work are Here to Stay, Say Empowered Employees
03/11/2022
It’s Official—Flexible and Remote Work are Here to Stay, Say Empowered Employees
The world’s office workers have more clout and influence now than ever over where and how they do their jobs. Those who have worked from home and want to continue are spurring on their employers to do more than just embrace hybrid work. They’re seeking to reinvent the very nature of employment. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Stay with as we explore new research into how innovations such as contingent labor exchanges and intelligent workspaces are changing the future of work forever. To learn more about how flexible work models are the new normal for workers and businesses alike, please welcome , Founder and Chief Research Officer at in Boston, and , Executive Vice President of Business Strategy at , in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The discussion is moderated by , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Sponsor: .
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How Low-Code Development has Entered a Maturity Spurt Thanks to New Process-Oriented Capabilities
02/14/2022
How Low-Code Development has Entered a Maturity Spurt Thanks to New Process-Oriented Capabilities
Closing the gap between the applications and services a company needs -- and the ones they can actually produce -- has long been a missing keystone for attaining digital transformation. For increasingly software-driven organizations, the speed by which developers produce the needed processes, data flows, and business transactions has been much too slow for much too long. Fast-forward to the pressing new requirements of pervasively digital business in 2022, and it’s abundantly clear that something has to change. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Stay with us now as explores the latest capabilities and burgeoning strengths of software development. To learn how the current maturity of Low-Code development will revolutionize the delivery of essential business applications, please join , Founder and CEO of in Reston, VA. The interview is moderated by , Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Subscribe to the podcast on . Read a or a copy. Sponsor: .
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When it Comes to API Security, Expect the Whole World to Be Testing Your Mettle, Says Twitter CISO
01/12/2022
When it Comes to API Security, Expect the Whole World to Be Testing Your Mettle, Says Twitter CISO
A discussion on how Twitter, a poster child for business-critical API use, makes the most of APIs by better knowing and managing them across their full lifecycles.
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2022: The Year Technology and New Work Models Come Together to Enable Continuous Innovation
12/14/2021
2022: The Year Technology and New Work Models Come Together to Enable Continuous Innovation
A discussion on how technology will improve the ways businesses operate and enable employees to remain productive and content in 2022.
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How Houwzer Speeds Growth and Innovation for Online Real Estate by Gaining Insights into API Use and Behavior
12/01/2021
How Houwzer Speeds Growth and Innovation for Online Real Estate by Gaining Insights into API Use and Behavior
Learn how streamlined and cost-efficient home-brokerage-enabler Houwzer constructed a resilient API-based platform.
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Working the Great Resignation--How Employers Can Transform Things to their Advantage
11/01/2021
Working the Great Resignation--How Employers Can Transform Things to their Advantage
The so-called great resignation has anywhere from half to two-thirds of U.S. workers looking for something other than their current situation. Whatever the percentage, there’s no question that workers across the board have and continue to quit in droves. And whether the exit is due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the culmination of decades of various trends, or some combination, the bottom line is that employers need to give workers better reasons to remain.
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The Open Group Marks 25 Years of Working Together to Make Successful Standards
10/27/2021
The Open Group Marks 25 Years of Working Together to Make Successful Standards
This October marks the 25th anniversary of remarkable achievements in the technology standards arena by The Open Group. Beginning with a focus as the publisher of the single UNIX specification technical standard and steward of the UNIX trademark, the organization has grown to more than 850 members in over 50 countries -- and it leads the field and technology standard services, certifications, research, and training.
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How More Industries Can Cultivate a Culture of Operational Resilience
10/26/2021
How More Industries Can Cultivate a Culture of Operational Resilience
New techniques allow for rapid responses to many of the most pressing threats. By predefining root causes and implementing advance responses, many businesses can create a culture of safer and sustained operations. Learn here to anticipate, plan for, and swiftly implement the means for nearly any business to avoid disruption.
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How FinTech Innovator Razorpay Uses Open-Source Tracing to Manage Fast-Changing APIs
10/19/2021
How FinTech Innovator Razorpay Uses Open-Source Tracing to Manage Fast-Changing APIs
The speed and complexity of microservices-intense applications often leave their developers in the dark. They need instant visibility into their APIs.
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Traceable AI Platform Builds Usage Knowledge that Detects and Thwarts API Vulnerabilities
10/01/2021
Traceable AI Platform Builds Usage Knowledge that Detects and Thwarts API Vulnerabilities
The rapidly expanding use of application programming interfaces (APIs) to accelerate application development and advanced business services has created a vast constellation of interrelated services -- often now called the API Economy. Stay with us here as BriefingsDirect explores a new platform designed from the ground up specifically to define, manage, secure, and optimize the API underpinnings for so much of what drives today’s digital businesses.
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How HPE Pointnext Complete Care Transforms Edge-to-Cloud Support to Enable Business-Wide Outcomes
09/09/2021
How HPE Pointnext Complete Care Transforms Edge-to-Cloud Support to Enable Business-Wide Outcomes
Today’s diversity of hybrid IT models and environments demands that IT services and support accommodate more digital variables than ever. That’s the market driver behind a new pan-IT services offering from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Pointnext Services called HPE Pointnext Complete Care. The all-inclusive approach moves past product-based experiences of support to an all-IT-environment-wide experience.
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How to Migrate Your Organization to a More Security-Minded Culture – From Development to Production to Partners
08/30/2021
How to Migrate Your Organization to a More Security-Minded Culture – From Development to Production to Partners
Bringing broader awareness of security risks and building a security-minded culture within any public or private organization has been a top priority for years. Join us here as BriefingsDirect probes into these more human elements of IT security with a leading chief information security officer (CISO).
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Citrix Research Shows Those ‘Born Digital’ Can Deliver Superlative Results if Business Leaders Know What Makes Them Tick
06/24/2021
Citrix Research Shows Those ‘Born Digital’ Can Deliver Superlative Results if Business Leaders Know What Makes Them Tick
Do the bosses really get their entry-level cohorts? And what, if any, impact has the COVID-19 pandemic had in amplifying these perception and cognition gaps? Stay with us as BriefingsDirect explores new research into what makes the Born Digital generation tick. And we’ll also unpack ways that the gap between those born analog and more recently can be closed.
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How Financial Firms Blaze a Trail to New, More Predictive Operational Resilience Capabilities
06/22/2021
How Financial Firms Blaze a Trail to New, More Predictive Operational Resilience Capabilities
As businesses become more digital and dependent upon end-to-end ecosystems of connected services, the responsibility for protecting critical business processes has clearly shifted. Stay with us now as we explore new ways that those responsible for business processes specifically in the financial sector are successfully leading the path to avoiding and mitigating the impact and damage from these myriad threats.
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API Security Depends on the Novel Use of Advanced Machine Learning and Actionable Artificial Intelligence
06/04/2021
API Security Depends on the Novel Use of Advanced Machine Learning and Actionable Artificial Intelligence
How will ML and AI form the next best security solution for APIs across their dynamic and often uncharted use in myriad apps and services? Stay with us now as we answer that question by exploring how advanced big data analytics forms a powerful and comprehensive means to track, understand, and model safe APIs use.
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Making APIs Secure Demands Tracing and Machine Learning to Rapidly Limit Damage from Attacks
05/05/2021
Making APIs Secure Demands Tracing and Machine Learning to Rapidly Limit Damage from Attacks
The burgeoning use of application programming interfaces (APIs) across cloud-native computing and digital business ecosystems has accelerated rapidly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To learn more about the latest innovations for making APIs more understood, trusted, and robust, we welcome Jyoti Bansal, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Traceable.ai. The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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Rise of Broad Reliance on APIs Brings Novel Vector for Security Concern and Need for New Defenses
04/21/2021
Rise of Broad Reliance on APIs Brings Novel Vector for Security Concern and Need for New Defenses
As businesses align to new approaches such as zero trust and behavior-modeling to secure their data applications, infrastructure, and networks, there’s a new, rapidly expanding digital domain that needs such pervasive and innovative protection. The next BriefingsDirect security trends discussion explores how application programming interfaces (APIs), microservices, and cloud-native computing form a new frontier for cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
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