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Episode 422 with Nuri Gocay
Friend and former cohost Nuri Gocay has returned to the States after working two years in New Zealand. We catch up and Nuri tells us what life in New Zealand is like, what the biggest culture shocks were, and what he missed most from the US. This was a great, light-hearted end to 2021. It…
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Episode 421 with David Franco of Exceptional Academy
This week’s guest is David Franco, Director of Exceptional Academy, a post-secondary program that provides IT certification training with a focus in cybersecurity for Detroit-area adults with disabilities. David spoke with us first on episode 337 where he introduced the program. Now, he’s giving us an update on how the program is going, what the…
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Episode 419 with Jason Brown of The Shyft Group
This week, we had a chat with Jason Brown, currently the IT Security Manager at The Shyft Group, formerly the CISO at Merit. We immediately talked about the mindset you have to be in moving from a Service Provider model to the public and then to the private sector in terms of security and privacy. We also chatted…
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Episode 420 with Tom Celani of Luna Entertainment and Rudy Patros of Securatech Solutions
Episode 420—you know what that means? We are talking all things marijuana. Mary Jane. The devil’s lettuce. You get the point 🙂 And who better to talk about it than Tom Celani, the owner, president, and CEO of Luna Entertainment, the mother company of Metro Detroit based MotorCity Harley-Davidson, MotorCity Power Sports, Freedom Hills amphitheatre, TC Vineyards Inc., and the Celani Family Vineyards in Napa Valley. Celani is…
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Episode 418 with Lisa Plaggemier of the National Cybersecurity Alliance
For this episode, we were super-lucky to be able to chat with Lisa Plaggemier, Executive Director of the National Cybersecurity Alliance. NCSA advocates for safe and secure use of all technology. They give the average user plain-spoken info on cybersecurity issues. Lisa is super passionate about cyber security awareness and we immediately chatted about awareness…
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Episode 417 with Jason Bourque of C3 Technology Advisors
This week, we talked to Jason Bourque of C3 Technology Advisors about all things cybersecurity and communication. Jason just visited the Channel Partners Conference in Las Vegas, and he talked about not only emerging vendors in the space but emerging technologies as well. If you like drinking games, I highly recommend having a drink in hand for everytime…
