The Technology Whisperers - A Technology and Innovation Podcast

11 - Technology Whisperers Demystifying Zero Trust Security

Zero Trust Security
Traditionally, our networks have been castle and moat style. We trust everything in our castle, and everything after the moat (or in the moat to a lesser extent, ie the DMZ), is untrusted.This was a decent model when all of our infrastructure was based on our own physical networks, in our own server rooms, running our own software that we had the CDs for. But most of the time we are on the Internet. A lot of software runs in the cloud, either as a service, or connects to the Internet for a lot of its services.Today, we can’t trust the stuff on our network anywhere. Internally, externally, or on a DMZ. Thus a ‘perimiterless’ or zero-trust security model has started to become an often-talked about concept.
In this episode Alistair and Sean demystify what "Zero Trust" is, why an executive at an organisation should care and what they should understand about it. In addition, they dive into a little of the technical 'how' to be successful implementing a "Zero Trust" security model.
 
Reference link
https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/implementing-zero-trust-architecture
 
Your hosts on this intrepid journey to demystify technology can be found across the internet:
Alistair Ross
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alistairjross/
Email: alistair.ross@servian.com
YouTube: youtube.com/AlsGeekLab
 
Sean Muller
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/seangmuller/
Twitter @seangmuller
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/seangmuller
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgmuller/
Email: sean.muller@servian.com
Discord: seangmuller#1887
Clubhouse: @seangmuller

10 - Technology Whisperers Demystify returning to work a discussion with Amanda Watson

This Episode the Technology Whisperers welcome back Amanda Watson to try and Demystify what it means to return to work, whether it is from a sabbatical, maternity leave, going back to school or just some downtime. How should you share what you have learned in your time away from work on your CV? What should employers look for in these non-work periods of time and how valuable are they to the health of a business? We try and tackle these and many other challenges in the discussion about returning to work.
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-watson-38b2132/
amanda.watson@servian.com
 
Tech Women Page: 
https://techwomen.nz/
 
Tech Women Membership 
https://techwomen.nz/join-techwomen/
 
Tech Women Return to Tech page
https://techwomen.nz/return-to-tech/

09 - Technology Whisperers Demystify Cloud Native Development

In this episode Alistair and Sean demystify the concepts of Cloud Native development and try and define it in a way that allows business to invest wisely and helps technologists communicate the realities of development Cloud Native. Along the way they debunk several myths and try and bring a little light humour to a topic that will make or break many organisations in the coming years.
If you have would like to join either Alistair, Sean or both on a future episode or if you would like to invite either onto a podcast of your own please reach out as both of them are always open to chat about technology.
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistairjross/
alistair.ross@servian.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgmuller/
sean.muller@servian.com

08 - Technology Whisperers talk Business Technologists with Cam Chapman

In this episode, Sean and Alistair meet with Cam Chapman, CEO of Fernleaf Consulting where he discusses Business Technology. 
Business Technology is not a methodology or framework – it’s a cultural shift in the way technologists can engage and deliver to their customers.
As a Business Technologist, Cam is very passionate about the opportunities it provides for digital technology providers to dissolve the Business/IT divide .
We felt that Cam’s story (and the reason he started his own business, Fernlead Consulting), really resonates with many parallels being drawn between what we are trying to achieve in demystifying technology in The Technology Whisperers.
In this podcast, Cam covers the concept of what Business Technology is (as opposed to Information Technology), and what sort of people Business Technologists actually are. He then goes on to rationalise why organisations should think along the lines of what thor business needs, which answers the ‘Why Business Technology?’, We also talk about Shadow IT and Business Technology vs Shadow IT.
This is an action packed podcast with lots of great thought provoking ideas that you don’t want to miss!
 
cam@fernleafconsulting.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/camchapman/
 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/fernleafconsulting/
https://fernleafconsulting.com/
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgmuller/
sean.muller@servian.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistairjross/
alistair.ross@servian.com
 
 

07 - Technology Whisperers Caleb Buchanan and Interns journey episode

This episode we get to talk with Caleb Buchanan about his journey from University into an internship and transitioning to a permanent position. We here what the experience was like and what pitfalls to avoid, and along the journey we get to hear about rock climbing and the challenges young technologists face. Caleb is a rising star at Servian with a penchant for infrastructure as code, devops and mlops.https://www.linkedin.com/in/caleb-buchanan-454269181/
 
https://www.summeroftech.co.nz/
https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/explore/postgraduate-programmes/master-of-artificial-intelligence/overview
https://www.sjs.co.nz/
 

06 - Technology Whisperers MLOps GCP Vertex AI episode

This episode Alistair and Sean demystify what MLOps is and isn't and how it differs from DevOps. They also talk through GCP VertexAI and how it can provide a hosted MLOps platform for those using GCP now to help develop Machine Learning Models and management and maintain those models.
 
https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistairjross/
alistair.ross@servian.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgmuller/
sean.muller@servian.com

005 - Technology Whisperers Graph Analytics episode

###Deep Technical Episode###This week we dive into a really technical and exciting capability, graph analytics. We try and demystify the why and what of Graph Databases, Graph Analytics and what they bring to observability and accelerated graphical views of what your data can tell you. Youcef Kadri walks us through the value and how long it takes to realise them. So as always, listen enjoy, share, subscribe and reach out if you want to talk.
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/youcefk/
youcef.kadrI@servian.com
https://medium.com/@youcef.d.kadri
 
https://neo4j.com/
https://www.tigergraph.com/
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgmuller/
sean.muller@servian.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistairjross/
alistair.ross@servian.com
 

004 - Technology Whisperers Women in Technology episode

We have a special episode today where Amanda Watson sits down to talk about demystifying the value of a diversified workforce especially in technology. Amanda gives us the inside scoop to how CVs are different and what power and management looks like from different perspectives. We explore the value these different viewpoints bring to technology and development . Finally we talk about the upcoming International Women's day and what events are happening in New Zealand. 
#BreaktheBias
https://techwomen.nz/event/celebrating-international-womens-day-2022/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/74334850
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-watson-38b2132/
 

003 - Technology Whisperers Sensible Security episode

Today we have a special episode where Alistair, our resident CISO and security guru, will take us through what a sensible security approach that won't break the bank and helps businesses understand the value of security. Lucky Sean gets to play the CIO asking lots of probing security questions.
 
https://www.servian.com/cybersecurity/
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistairjross/
alistair.ross@servian.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sgmuller/
sean.muller@servian.com

002 - Technology Whisperers Tech-Debt episode

In this episode Alistair and Sean discuss Technical Debt and Legacy Technologies.
We define what Technical Debt is and is not.
“Not making a decision is making a decision, and usually a bad one.”
We talk about Hardware vs cloud vs software tech debt.
Define good Debt vs bad Debt.
When is deciding to incur tech debt is acceptable.
Impact from Technical Debt to business costs and future capability.
financial impacts  - licensing, TCO (Total cost of Ownership), lockin-cost, write-downs
risks - security, people, business, process
And finally how to deal with Tech Debt
knowing what you have - discovery process
translation - between business and technology
cost/impact to cost/upgrade and cost of delay
financial planning to remediate and impact to business initiatives
Migration options (7)
rehost
replatform
refactor-rearchitect
repurchase
retire
retain
Architecture and roadmaps to deal with Tech Debt
Strategies for preventing future debt
challenges to making decisions
1 user still on the system
monolithic architectures
unknown devices/systems
ownership of systems, software, business processes
financial approvals to remediate
Stalwarts (server huggers)
Basically an actioned packed episode!