Tech & Main Presents

Andre Keartland is the Solutions Architect in the Inobits Consulting Division of Netsurit.

He has been working professionally in the IT industry for almost 30 years, during which time he has performed almost every imaginable IT job description. Since 2000 he has been a consultant and architect at Inobits Consulting, which merged into Netsurit in 2016. There he has participated in or led major projects on five continents.

As a solutions architect, his role is to design and implement solutions for enterprise customers. Although he tried very hard to be technology agnostic, he has become recognised as an authority on the Microsoft solution stack. He implemented a wide range of the Microsoft on-premises products and solutions, but in the past decade he has increasingly focused on cloud solutions, including Azure and Microsoft 365, especially in the field of hybrid cloud security.

He has frequently done work for Microsoft on several initiatives, including development of technical white papers, training material and exam content.

In his spare time, he loves to hike and read non-fiction (especially history).

For more information visit https://netsurit.com/en-us/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrekeartland/

In today's episode, we will be talking with Greg Edwards. He is the CEO of Canauri, a leading cybersecurity firm that detects and stops ransomware.

You can connect with Greg in the following ways: 

Website: www.canauri.com

At Tech & Main, we want to be YOUR technology partner. Let our 20+ years of expertise help you achieve the outcomes that are best for your business: cybersecurity, cloud, SD-WAN and data center. We have engineers and project managers available to assist you. Call our office at 678-575-8515, email us at [email protected] or visit us at www.techandmain.com. Thanks for listening!

Today we will be speaking with Michael Logic. Michael is the Chief Technology Officer at DashPing Capital in Chicago. You can connect with Michael in the following ways: Twitter: http://twitter.com/MikeLogic and LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/michaellogic.

At Tech & Main, we want to be YOUR technology partner. Let our 20+ years of expertise help you achieve the outcomes that are best for your business: cybersecurity, cloud, SD-WAN and data center. We have engineers and project managers available to assist you. Call our office at 678-575-8515, email us at [email protected] or visit us at www.techandmain.com.

In today's episode, we will be talking for a 3rd time with our good friend, Grant Elliott. He is the CEO of Ostendio. Ostendio is an integrated risk management technology company that offers an always-on approach to information security. Grant explains to our listeners about the Myth of Automation. You can connect with Grant in the following ways: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/grantelliott Website: www.ostendio.com. At Tech & Main, we want to be YOUR technology partner. Let our 20+ years of expertise help you achieve the outcomes that are best for your business: cybersecurity, cloud, SD-WAN and data center. We have engineers and project managers available to assist you. Call our office at 678-575-8515, email us at [email protected] or visit us at www.techandmain.com.

Brian Smith is a 20-year veteran and entrepreneur in multimedia, cybersecurity, and technologies alike. He is Co-Founder and CTO at Spyderbat, an automated runtime security platform. Spyderbat stops attacks and automates root cause analysis on cloud-native environments by proactively recording Cloud system and container activities into a living 'Google Map'. With Spyderbat, DevOps and Platform teams stop attacks, prevent misconfigurations, and get a full understanding of what happened, how to clean up, and how to prevent it in the future.

In 2000, together with Marc Willebeek-LeMair, Brian founded TippingPoint Technologies (acquired by 3Com), and in 2009 he founded Click Security (acquired by Alert Logic). Prior to TippingPoint, Brian received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994 and was the Xerox Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University until 1998. He now holds 13 patents and is a fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Connect with Brian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-smith-07a4191/ and https://www.spyderbat.com/

THOMAS ASHLEY

Education Strategist

[email protected] | Twitter: @Tech_Leader LinkedIn: ThomasAshley2022

Background & Experience

Tom became a Technology Director over twenty-five years ago in Georgia after spending six years in the corporate world working in technology, leadership and training. He worked at Huntington County Schools in Indiana as Chief Technology Officer for over 20 years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Western Michigan University and a master’s degree from the University of Illinois in Curriculum, Technology and Education Reform. He retired as a Captain in the United States Army Reserve and holds several technical certifications. Tom is a Certified Educational Technology Leader (CETL), a Six Sigma Green Belt, and a Certified Scrum Master. He has served and lead several professional boards in Indiana as well as served on the COSN National CTO Council. He recently served as the Co-Chair of the Indiana Cyber Security Task Force sponsored by the Indiana Department of Education and as a board member on the Indiana CTO Council.

Kris Lovejoy is the global security and resilience practice leader at Kyndryll. She made stellar contributions as a global cybersecurity leader at Ernst and Young and was the chief executive officer at BlueVector, Maryland. She was also the founder and CEO of BlueVector Inc, which worked with the Al-powered sense and response platform.

Kris was the president at Acuity Solutions and served at IBM, starting as the VP of security strategy for three years, followed by the VP for iT risk/ CISO, and then the GM for OBM security services division for over four years.

As a leader in cybersecurity, she extended

her knowledge of consul risk management as the CTO, CIO, and VP of support and services.

Prior to that, Kris worked as the VP of security assurance services at TruSecure for five years.

Kris has expertise in security, risk, compliance, and governance and was featured in the top

25 CTO in the InfoWorld list. Moreover, she was among the top 25 most influential security executives by the Security magazine and was among the top woman in security by eWeek.

Kris has the United States and European Union's patent for object-oriented risk management models and methods. She was named the top woman technology leader by Consulting magazine in 2020. To learn more go to http://linkedin.com/in/klovejoy.

Mikko Hypponen is a global cyber security expert with over thirty years of experience working as a researcher and investigator. He is a sought-after lecturer, and he was profiled in Vanity Fair. His TED Talk has been viewed more than 2 million times. He can be reached on his website @ https://mikko.com/ and https://www.ifitssmartitsvulnerable.com/ and get social with Mikko on Twitter @mikko.

Jay Bartot is the CEO and cofounder of Seattle-based Zeitworks, an AI-powered business process intelligence platform that provides enterprises with the data-driven insights and tools they need to continuously improve and transform their business process operations.

Jay is a serial technology entrepreneur and innovator with 20+ years of experience developing data and machine learning applications for a variety of verticals such as e-commerce, online advertising, travel, medical informatics and consumer video creation. As a co-founder and CTO, Jay has built technology teams, innovative analytics, machine learning platforms and products  for startups like Vhoto, Medify, Farecast and AdRelevance. These startups led to acquisitions from Hulu, Alliance Health Networks, Microsoft and Nielsen/NetRatings, where he played senior technology roles. 

Prior to Zeitworks, Jay was CTO and Managing Director at Madrona Venture Labs, where he helped to create and incubate nearly a dozen exceptional startups, providing support and expertise across the a number of different areas of startup creation, including ideation, customer discovery and validation, data collection design and procurement, product development, machine learning solution design, technical vision, story and pitch deck development, and founder, technical leadership, and team recruitment. 

Jay attended University of Iowa where he studied Music, Anthropology & Computer Science. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-bartot/

At Tech & Main, we want to be YOUR technology partner. Let our 20+ years of expertise help you achieve the outcomes that are best for your business: cybersecurity, cloud, SD-WAN and data center. We have engineers and project managers available to assist you. Call our office at 678-575-8515, email us at [email protected] or visit us at www.techandmain.com. Thanks for listening!

With 25 years of experience working in the networking, telecommunications, and information security space, Scott is currently serving as the CEO of SolCyber Managed Security Services. Scott has worked with large companies and start-ups, among them IBM and EDS, where he held Security Engineer and Team Leader positions (US and London).

Previous to SolCyber, McCrady built the Asia-Pacific-Japan business at Symantec; he ran the global Managed Security Service, and the Symantec and Accenture Joint Venture. He then transitioned to FireEye pre-IPO to create their global MSS and System Integrator, and traveled to Singapore to help build their APJ business. After a successful run with FireEye, Scott helped spin out SonicWall from Dell to private equity and reconstitute the business into a profitable, cash flow-positive entity. For more information visit https://solcyber.com/.

At Tech & Main, we want to be YOUR technology partner. Let our 20+ years of expertise help you achieve the outcomes that are best for your business: cybersecurity, cloud, SD-WAN and data center. We have engineers and project managers available to assist you. Call our office at 678-575-8515, email us at [email protected] or visit us at www.techandmain.com. Thanks for listening!