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Nothing frustrates and cripples IT more than individuals in varying departments going rogue. Joe from marketing thinks the company-approved internet is slow, so he sets up his own WiFi off network. Sara from finance uses non-approved cloud storage for personal info of employees, exposing the data. Then Larry uses his own home laptop because the work computer has too many restrictions.

All this and more causes headache after headache for IT. The problems abound, causing security threats and bogging down the IT department when they could be focused on bigger tasks?

Two IT pros, Adam Fowler and Billy York, join us today to share their frustrations, and solutions, on Shadow IT.

We're bringing you March's security and IT news!

In this one we do some mythbusting.

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With so many available languages, knowing which one to choose for automation can be overwhelming.

In this interview with Eric Chou from A10 Networks, we learn advantages of using Python Networking to automate tasks as engineers.

The cryptocurrency market is always changing. Is it a reliable investment, and who should be investing in it?

In this episode Defrag This host Greg Mooney, and guest Adam Bertram, an IT industry expert, discuss the current cryptocurrency trend and what some of the downsides are to investing.

We're bringing you this week's security and IT news right as it happens!

In this episode of Defrag This, we're looking back on the year.

New regulations always mean a flurry of activity for affected companies, and the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation is no exception.

The bill passed in 2016, but it gave companies two years to fall in line. That means the deadline of May 2018 is looming for companies with consumer data interests in the EU.

Not making that deadline could mean fines and civil suits. And then there's the possibility of cultivating a bad reputation for not caring enough about the protection of personally identifiable data of consumers.