Groovers Talk Tech - Knowledge as a Service (KaaS): Technical Expert Series

Tune in as experts from Möbius Partners, HPE, and special guest Rachel Wilson, Head of Data Security and Infrastructure Risk, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, Former NSA Senior Executive; Former Head of Counterterrorism Operations, NSA, discuss the differences between a Security Operations Center (SOC) and a Cyber Fusion Center and share their insights on cybersecurity. This episode also touches on how Möbius Partners can help you keep pace with digital change and the expanding threat landscape with advanced security solutions.
Listen to the podcast to learn:
• How Möbius Partners can optimize your security posture
• The importance of having incident response, vulnerability management and third-
party/vendor risk management
• How to increase your business agility with scalable IT security
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 Welcome to our next broadcast of Knowledge-As-A-Service series to provide technical experts to our customers where we discuss interesting topics and emerging technologies that might help your organization or you are curious about.

Shannon Gillenwater, Director of Technology and Kyle Husted, Solutions Architect, take a few minutes to break down Security Service Edge (SSE) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and touch on SD-WAN.


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Password policies, MFA, and biometrics have finally secured all our accounts, right? No! Compromising passwords through phishing, social engineering, and other nefarious methods are still one of the leading causes of security breaches. So how do we fix it? Passwordless Logins.

Check out our latest KaaS session to hear our Technical Experts about Passwordless Logins, FIDO, security keys, MFA and more! 

What you’ll take away from this session::

• What does Passwordless mean?
• How does it work?
• Is it actually secure?
• What options are there for your organization?

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According to Gartner's predictions, "By 2024, organizations adopting a CSMA will reduce the financial impact of security incidents by an average of 90%."
Cyber Security Mesh Architecture (CSMA) is a network design that helps to protect an organization's data and systems from cyber threats. 
In a mesh architecture, each node is responsible for protecting a specific aspect of the network, such as a specific server or application. These nodes are connected to each other and share information about potential threats, allowing them to quickly detect and respond to attacks.
Overall, a CSMA helps to provide a multi-layered defense against cyber threats, making it more difficult for attackers to successfully penetrate an organization's network.  Takeaways from this session: 

• What is Cyber Security Mesh Architecture (CSMA)? 
• Key considerations and benefits 
• Who needs to be involved 
• How to get started 
• Pitfalls to avoid

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Organizations have taken advantage of nearly everything As-A-Service for infrastructure components in the past decade, except for networking. It has been the last frontier for this consumption model due to the on-prem necessity and use case. However, it has finally started to emerge this year, but how does that work? Is it really pay for what you use and elastic as we expect from As-A-Service?

Join us for a brief discussion around Network as a Service (NaaS), and then we’ll open it up for “ask me anything.”  What you’ll take away from this session:

• What is Network as a Service (NaaS)? And are there different models?
• Key considerations around NaaS
• Does NaaS mean SDN?
• Benefits to NaaS

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Shannon Gillenwater, Director of Technology

Shannon applies a wide breadth of experiences and deep technology skills to craft technology solutions that help businesses be agile, operate efficiently and satisfy customers. An articulate collaborator and effective change agent, Gillenwater has led diverse teams in designing and deploying enterprise-scale data centers and global networks. Always searching the horizon for what’s next, Gillenwater is a cloud-first adopter and now helps customers evaluate and develop software-defined solutions. Click here to connect.

Kyle Husted, Senior Solutions Architect

An experienced Virtualization expert, Kyle has achieved the highly sought-after VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) certification. He was the 48th person to receive the certification of which there are less than 300 certified globally. Kyle will leverage his 25 years of customer and partner experience in IT to assess business needs, IT design, and implement solutions offerings to provide positive business outcomes. Click here to connect.

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Detect and stop attacks, minimize damage, and prevent future attacks of the same type – can your cybersecurity incident response achieve these goals?

How can we ensure that we have the right process in incident response and the right documentation should we need it?

Today our guest is Roger Caslow, a CISO at HRSD – a regional utility in Virginia that provides critical infrastructure services to several cities and counties in the region. As a US Navy Veteran with 20 years in various information security roles, he understands the importance of having a proven and tested incident response plan. Roger pooled the critical success factors for managing the risks all companies must address.

Join us as we discuss:

• The importance of the preparation and validation of processes and controls
• The key critical factor in a cybersecurity incident response plan
• Connection points between the three Ps (People, Process, Policy)
• Technology Solutions

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Enabling business outcomes is the goal for all IT organizations, but it’s much easier said than done.

Kishore Koduri, Director of Enterprise Architecture, Resilience, Enterprise Integration Services and Agile Office at Ameren, has had tremendous success achieving those outcomes and he shares tips and advice for others on their transformation journey.

Join us as we discuss:

• Building a solutions from concept to scale and implementing a new business model
• Transforming an existing legacy monolith solution or application
• Building an architecture and resiliency practice at a Fortune 500 company

From Concept to Scale

The world is filled with people who have great ideas. With brilliant minds who can come up with brilliant solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. 

But the problem is, you’ve got to be able to not only come up with a solution, but come up with a way to scale that solution to work in a larger setting. To understand innately the problem that you are trying to solve. 

Before you start building any core team for anything, you need to intimately understand the problem you are trying to solve. Leaders need to ask questions. 

“Before you start building a core team, you need to understand the problem you are trying to solve.” — Kishore Koduri

What is the success criteria going to look like? Bring in functional as well as technical people. It’s not all about subject matter experts when you’re building a core team. It’s about having people with good team building skills as well as soft skills. 

Diversity is the name of the game when you’re building those core teams. 

Transforming an Existing Legacy Monolith Solution

As with most methodologies, it’s all about people, processes, and technology. It all starts with understanding the problem, as we talked about earlier. Knowing where you’re headed. This is the process leg of the stool. 

Then once you know that, the agile journey of transforming your existing legacy solution into one that is more efficient, helpful, and that works for everyone. 

“If you really want to achieve excellence, you need to have a way of measuring and continuously improving what you're doing.” — Kishore Koduri

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In the wake of the pandemic, the remote work boom, and The Great Resignation, retaining and developing top talent is more important than ever in any industry — and IT is no exception.

You want to ensure you can adapt to the rapidly shifting work landscape. 

You need to lead with empathy.

That’s how Marcus Manning leads as Chief Technology Officer at Smart Financial Credit Union, where he is learning new strategies for accommodating the post-pandemic professional world.

Join us as we discuss:

• How to decide between an office, remote or hybrid environment
• Why leading with empathy is so important
• How to build trust across your organization

Everyone is re-evaluating their career choices these days, so how can your business attract and retain the best? Let’s drill deeper. 

“IT has really become the backbone of any organization. IT is no longer just nice to have, it is a necessity.” — Marcus Manning

A problem-solving foundation

Marcus has been in IT since his college days at Texas State. “Coding is great,” he jokes, “but I need some people interaction.” He deftly blended his technical expertise with the more ephemeral skills needed to build and lead successful teams.

He started out in the petroleum industry, spent time with Continental Airlines prior to their merger with United, and then the Texas Children’s Hospital before spending over eight years in the credit union field. 

These well-rounded experiences prepared Marcus for his elevation to the C-suite at Smart Financial. A coding background enhances your ability to solve problems with an analytical mindset. 

In the midst of this digital transformation, every business is a technology business now, no matter what your main product might be. 

Crafting the perfect culture

Marcus points out that your people are your most important asset right now. You can spend a lot of money on advanced tech solutions, but you also need skilled workers in place to ensure those systems are running as efficiently as possible.

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Cybersecurity: the current state isn't great. Underappreciated, understaffed, underfunded—the usual issues we all know so well.

How can we address the prevalent trials in the industry and make positive changes moving forward?

Today’s guest, Joshua Brown, Chief Information Security Officer at H&R Block, has been in IT for 25 years—It's safe to say he knows his way around the landscape of cybersecurity. Joshua shared his view on how to adapt to change, train the next cybersecurity leaders, and revitalize processes. 

Join us as we discuss:

• The current state of cybersecurity 
• The future of cyber security (saying goodbye to gatekeeping)
• People, process, and technology (in that order)

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Mergers & Acquisitions come with a ton of challenges — especially in healthcare.

But these challenges can easily be overcome… 

You just need the right IT strategy enabling the process.

Today’s guest, John Ragsdale, Founder and CEO of theAppPlace (TAP) Innovations, is an M&A expert with a long track record of success. He joins the show to discuss why IT is the ultimate enabler for that success

Join us as we discuss:

• How to shape people and process for a winning M&A 
• How IT can add value to any M&A
• The importance of partnerships (and how to choose the right partners)

Connect with John:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnonit
https://tapinnov.com/
https://twitter.com/JohnOnIT
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