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Your enterprise better have a cybersecurity strategy for AI. But where to start? Everywhere! Securing AI means securing all the AI layers an...
How should you shape your IT strategy around the possibility–or is it probability–that the AI economy is a true bubble and will burst soon?...
The best strategy in the world won’t succeed if a team falters operationally. But what is operational excellence, and what does it take to a...
Mav Turner, Chief Product Officer at Kentik, joins John Burke and Drew Conry-Murray for an in-depth conversation on the importance of deep v...
At CES in January, NVIDIA, AMD, Siemens and others spun elaborate tales of a world suffused with AI: AI in the cloud, AI at the desktop, AI...
Every employer knows to conduct background checks. However, conducting background checks on IT professionals requires an extra layer of veri...
The recent U.S. Executive Order 14365, Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, is the administration’s latest atte...
Are there some things that can come off your strategic planning radar for IT and cybersecurity in 2026? If you ask AI, you’ll get some surpr...
Leaders may shy away from thinking about insider threats because it means assuming the worst about colleagues and friends. But technology ex...
Your next security teammate might not be a traditional hire — it could be a Digital Security Teammate (DST),” says Secure.com CEO Uzair Gadi...
As you wind down 2025, what should you be planning to do for 2026? The Heavy Strategy team breaks it down for you with eight resolutions for...
Anand Oswal, Executive Vice President at Palo Alto Networks, joins Johna Johnson and John Burke for a wide-ranging exploration of two emergi...
AI and other technologies are increasingly capable of delivering company-ending events. How do you have “the conversation” with senior leade...
Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) initiatives aren’t just “the right thing to do”, they can also save companies real dollars, particul...
The evolution of the modern, Internet-driven economy has created the conditions for essentially unbounded Nth-party risks (that is, risks fr...
To understand how much to spend on cybersecurity, you have to accurately assess or quantify your risks. Too many people still peg their cybe...
In times of major change–whether in IT or the economy–organizations should take a fresh look at their sourcing strategy. Companies outsourci...
Sure, some days you hate your job. But how do you know when an IT position has gone from being run-of-the-mill annoying to truly toxic? And...
Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) promises enterprises the ability to set up and configure connectivity and network security with a couple of clic...
The modern enterprise is built on cloud, with most organizations using SaaS for their “horizontal” work horse layers, such as communications...
Google now estimates that the specs for a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC), which can break conventional public key encryp...
Is adding AI to your environment a software purchase? Or is it more like hiring an employee? Heavy Strategy’s John Burke and Johna Joh...
Whether it’s CNAME records pointing to dead endpoints or abandoned cloud storage buckets still mentioned in the makefile or Chef recip...
Here we are, a bit more than halfway through the year. How’s your execution against your strategy going? Roiled by the economy? Disrupted by...
IT teams deal with technology lifecycle issues all the time–including Y2K, which enterprises across the world grappled with for years. The E...
You need someone to design your operations processes–or perhaps redesign them. That’s an Ops Architect. Should you take an ops person...
How far ahead should you plan, and what things belong in your strategic plan? Conventional wisdom holds that a 3-year planning horizon is “a...
It’s all well and good to develop a technology strategy, articulate and document the strategy, and agree (supposedly) on that strategy. But...
AI can impact an enterprise in several ways: making individuals more productive, making products and services more effective, and making it...
Most organizations have a long list of security holes in the form of unpatched systems and other known but unresolved vulnerabilities. Is it...
Is it actually possible to run a team without lying? Steven Gaffney, author of the book, “Just Be Honest”, joins Johna and John to talk abou...
IT and network leaders need more than uptime—they need to know what their networks cost, what they deliver, and how future changes will impa...
What do you do when your colleagues or senior leaders ask you to do something illegal? It’s hardly hypothetical; recent years have see...
IT teams too often wrap a strategy statement around a basket of projects already in progress or known to be coming, rather than defining a s...
Someone needs to be scanning the horizon for the threats and opportunities that are distant for now–and they need to be able to turn t...
Can AI and automation create a truly autonomous network, one that’s self-diagnosing and self-healing? Join Vitria CTO and Founder Dale...
AI Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used to generate output that the creators and users of those models didn’t intend; for example,...
Billy Joel had it right: It’s a matter of trust. Too often Operations, Engineering, and Architecture teams don’t trust one anoth...
It’s better to plan for your IT strategy than not. But sometimes circumstances arise such that the plan, no matter how well conceived,...
Recent events have driven home a simple fact: neither your devices nor your network services can be trusted totally, and they could all be t...
This has been a big year for AI regulation, from the EU AI Act to the much hyped California SB1047, currently in limbo. With things bubbling...
Some high-profile companies like Amazon are mandating all employees return to the office, full time. Justifications, when given, mostly re...
Analysis paralysis is a huge problem in IT – we “study” and “evaluate” and “keep on our radar” but then all too often have a choice an...
Startup Alkira has built a Network as a Service (NaaS) offering that extends from on prem to public cloud and multi-cloud. Today’s spo...
In this episode, John and Johna share the findings from the recent [Next] conference that most inspired them: How to project-manage an 18-ye...
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good… it’s a challenge that architects and strategists often face. They may desi...
Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn visits Heavy Strategy to talk about how to create a technology culture, what it’s like being “customer zero”, and...
Network veteran Russ White joins the Heavy Strategy team for a rousing discussion on why protocols fail, how much complexity is too much, wh...
The low-code/no-code movement means business users who aren’t programmers can create software. This capability might make these citize...
AI seems to be changing everything, including your IT infrastructure. Do you have a strategic plan for your AI infrastructure? Today we disc...