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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.

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.

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?

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 protect ourselves from these attacks?

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. Uri Haramati joins the Defrag This podcast to discuss his take on shadow IT.

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 large and medium enterprises across various industries. In addition, Bauert is a localization and internationalization engineer for hardware and software products.

IT professionals join the Defrag This podcast to tell the spookiest stories of their careers.

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.