Join us for a quick discussion around the next-generation firewall capabilities of Palo Alto Networks, powered by machine learning (ML). WEI Lead Network Security Engineer, Richard Cross, explains why reactive security can’t keep up with today’s threats – or prepare you for tomorrow. This overview comes just before a planned Palo Alto Ultimate Test Drive exercise.

Palo Alto Networks has changed the game by making network security intelligent and proactive. Driven by innovation, their award-winning security features the world’s first ML-Powered NGFW and empowers you to stay ahead. If you currently serve as head of IT infrastructure or as a network security architect/engineer, this podcast is just for you.

The content for this episode was recorded in June 2024.

In today's cloud-driven world, ensuring meaningful security for an AWS environment is paramount for IT security leaders and the end users they protect. WEI Senior Cloud Architect & Strategist Keith Lafaso presents on this important topic as he unveils the essential best practices to safeguard your cloud infrastructure. The longtime cloud computing and solutions architect offers insight on best practices including identity and access management (IAM) and understanding the AWS Shared Responsibility Model and its implications for your security posture.

The content for this episode was recorded in June 2024.

Are you interested in learning how to secure your hybrid workforce by closing security gaps and simplifying operations? If so, this podcast is just for you! Listen as Fortinet Systems Engineer George Magee discusses Fortinet’s single-vendor SASE solution, which is designed to seamlessly integrate essential networking and security technologies, delivered via the cloud. This ensures secure access for the hybrid workforce and safeguarding applications and data on any cloud. This conversation focuses on market trends, use cases, and enabling technologies as it came just before a scheduled Fortinet SASE workshop coordinated by WEI. The episode begins with WEI’s Mark DeCicco offering a high level overview of WEI’s potent cybersecurity practice before giving the main stage to George.

The content for this production was recorded in June 2024.

Is your campus IT ready for what's next? Can you quickly adapt to an ever¬changing technology landscape - and rapidly shifting expectations? Get ready for a paradigm shift in data infrastructure. With HPE Alletra solutions, you can shed the complexity and silos inherent in conventional hybrid cloud environments and seamlessly run any app without compromise from edge to cloud, with a cloud experience for every workload.

Watch the podcast with WEI, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and award-winning journalist and acclaimed author Anya Kamenetz to discover how data modernization can help:

Listen to the podcast now and learn how to simplify data management with secure storage solutions like HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition - pairing HPE Alletra storage with HPE ProLiant Gen 11 servers, powered by 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

The content for this podcast was recorded in May 2024.

In this episode, the WEI Tech Talk Podcast welcomes WEI Senior Architect and Virtualization Ambassador Mark Gabryjelski. Mark has been practicing VMware since 2000 and is VCDX #23. Known as "Gabs" around the industry, he is one of the first non-VMware employees to have earned the certification.

Today's episode will explain what the VCDX certification is and why it elevates WEI as an IT solutions provider. Mark also explains what his journey was like in earning his certification and how the program has evolved over the past several years.

The content for this episode was recorded in January 2024.  

In this special WEI podcast, WEI and HPE welcome special guest Theresa Payton, a renowned cybersecurity expert who served as the first female White House CIO. Theresa joins WEI's Shawn Murphy and Matt Leal to discuss how companies are overcoming the technical and cybersecurity hurdles of data modernization. The trio touch on strategies to help companies transform and modernize their IT infrastructures to unlock the full potential of their data. 

WEI Cybersecurity Senior Architect Shawn Murphy welcomes Jeff Cassidy of CyberTrust Massachusetts. They discuss how the evolution of the SOC operating model has shaped the structure of today’s SOC environment while identifying the ideal components of a modern SOC. They also discuss the role of how a SOC can improve incident response.

And finally, Shawn and Jeff end the episode dissecting threat hunting, an emerging cybersecurity practice.

Palo Alto Networks joins WEI to explore how the biggest innovations in Prisma Cloud are helping organizations prioritize and address critical application risks at the source. In this episode, Palo Alto’s Prisma Cloud Global Practice Lead Ben Nicholson takes a deep dive into what possible risks may look like across the entire application lifecycle and how to use code-to-cloud intelligence to prioritize, remediate, and mitigate these risks efficiently, at scale, and before they become breaches.

The content for this episode was recorded in February 2024.

When considering the implementation of unified storage, WEI has identified two main options for enterprises to consider: a web-based sandbox or rolling out on-prem. Each approach offers distinct advantages, and businesses should choose the option that best aligns with specific needs and business objectives. Listen as WEI's Senior Architect & Virtualization Ambassador and Nutanix Certified Expert, Mark Gabryjelski, explains. 

To start with, discover Mark's thoughts on how a unified storage solution can help prevent ransomware from compromising your storage environment.

Principal Cloud Architect Keith Lafaso begins the conversation by briefly explaining WEI's cloud focus. Then, Fortinet Solution Engineer Garrick Chang offers his thoughts on the state of digital acceleration, cloud security deployment trends, cloud security challenges, cloud security customer priorities. Garrick’s summary comes as a prelude to a hands-on lab that WEI and Fortinet coordinated. The workshop was not recorded and is reserved for WEI customers only.

This content was recorded in November 2023.