If you’ve worked in IT, you’ve probably got a few good ghost stories. This show is dedicated to those stories and the IT heroes who survived to tell the tale. Join some of the world’s top IT leaders as they recount the most harrowing experiences of their careers. They’ll share how they found themselves in hot water, managed to escape disaster, and their best advice for making sure you don’t end up in the sequel. This is IT Horror Stories, where the call is coming from inside the office. Brought to you by NinjaOne, the leader in automated endpoint management.
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If you’ve worked in IT, you’ve probably got a few good ghost stories. This show is dedicated to those stories and the IT heroes who survived to tell the tale. Join some of the world’s top IT leaders as they recount the most harrowing experiences of their careers. They’ll share how they found themselves in hot water, managed to escape disaster, and their best advice for making sure you don’t end up in the sequel. This is IT Horror Stories, where the call is coming from inside the office. Brought to you by NinjaOne, the leader in automated endpoint management.
In the spine-tingling finale of IT Horror Stories, host Jonathan Crowe is joined by a fearless lineup of IT veterans who have stared into the digital void and lived to tell the tale.
IT isn’t just wires and widgets. It’s a minefield of lurking disasters waiting to strike. Few know that better than Mark Settle, 7-time CIO and author, who’s survived more operational horrors than most dare imagine.
Negotiating with cybercriminals is no walk in the park. Shelley Ma, incident response lead for Coalition Incident Response, highlights the human element of cybersecurity: dealing with both clients in crisis and the criminals themselves.
Things are bound to go sideways in the world of IT and security, but there are certain three-letter government organizations that you never want to hear from. Andrew Wilder tells harrowing stories from his time as a long-time security veteran.
Mahesh Guruswamy, CPTO at Kickstarter and author of How to Deliver Bad News and Get Away with It, recounts the night he took down production and had no other choice but to push through. Tune in for the blow-by-blow — from anxiously watching the clock as queries time-out to the tightrope walk of breaking bad news without breaking trust.
When blueprints start to smolder, true leaders draft new ones on the fly. Former architect turned Wawa CIO & SVP John Collier reveals how his background in design thinking has helped him make split-second judgments when unforeseeable crises hit. From war-room gut-checks made in the dark to culture-defining decisions that outlast the chaos, John shares hard-won tactics for IT leaders who want a real seat at the table — and who want to be ready when all eyes turn to them.
Wyatt Hansen unpacks how a back of house server going down turns into a massive nightmare for one of his biggest retail clients, shuttering POS systems and leading to business chaos.
Dr. Chase Cunningham, aka DrZeroTrust, sheds light on what a horror story looks like from an adversarial perspective. He explores why doing the basics and applying them intelligently does matter, why people should abandon the notion of perfect security, and what controls and practices organizations can adopt and follow to make it a bad day for bad actors.
When COVID lockdowns loom in early 2020, it’s up to Matthew's team to prepare hundreds of laptops for an employee base that’s about to start working from home.
Could a robust internal process and contingency plan have prevented a disastrous fire suppression test in a data center? Mike Anderson, CDO and CIO of Netskope, describes the importance of scenario planning and proactive security in order to prevent disaster.
When a corrupted virus definition file was distributed by a centralized management server, it was up to Jay Abbott to find a fix for the company-wide blue screen of death.
When a Hurricane causes a major power outage, Nick’s data center is pushed to run on generator power. Then the generator runs out of fuel… In the middle of a fuel shortage.
If you’ve worked in IT, you’ve probably got a few ghost stories. This show is dedicated to those stories and the IT heroes who survived to tell the tale.
If you’ve worked in IT, you’ve probably got a few good ghost stories. This show is dedicated to those stories and the IT heroes who survived to tell the tale. Join some of the world’s top IT leaders as they recount the most harrowing experiences of their careers. They’ll share how they found themselves in hot water, managed to escape disaster, and their best advice for making sure you don’t end up in the sequel. This is IT Horror Stories, where the call is coming from inside the office. Brought to you by NinjaOne, the leader in automated endpoint management.
