Ready, Set, Midmarket!
Ready, Set, Midmarket!
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Featuring midmarket IT leaders, industry experts, MSPs and vendors focused on midsized companies, this podcast focuses on the latest news, insight, tips, and trends for midmarket IT leaders.
Co-hosted by Adam Dennison, VP of Midsized Enterprise Services (MES) at The Channel Company, and Samara Lynn, senior editor of MES Computing, this episode’s guests are Jason Frame, chief information officer of the Southern Nevada Health District, and Grant Walsh, head of IT security infrastructure and operations at Flow Control Group. This episode focuses on the midmarket’s tech road ahead in 2025 including how midmarket IT leaders are using AI, their concerns about DeepSeek, cybersecurity strategies, AI customer service chat bots so realistically they are indistinguishable from human agents, and more.
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The podcast covers specific themes such as technology predictions for 2025, the impact of AI on midmarket companies, cybersecurity strategies, and the role of customer service chat bots. Recent episodes have explored topics like the use of AI in midmarket IT departments, concerns about cybersecurity threats like DeepSeek, and innovative strategies for leveraging technology to improve operational efficiency.
Featuring midmarket IT leaders, industry experts, MSPs and vendors focused on midsized companies, this podcast focuses on the latest news, insight, tips, and trends for midmarket IT leaders.
Co-hosted by Adam Dennison, VP of Midsized Enterprise Services (MES) at The Channel Company, and Samara Lynn, senior editor of MES Computing.
Amid the rush to adopt artificial intelligence occurred a recent incident that made system leaders take pause and ask: What happens when an AI system causes harm without clear human intent?
The industry has been in heated debate following the recent OpenAI-Hugging Face incident. In July, advanced AI models being tested by OpenAI expanded their access within a sandboxed research environment, got online, and ultimately interacted with Hugging Face’s production systems. The event sparked concerns over AI autonomy, security guardrails and accountability when AI systems behaver unexpectedly—or “go rogue,” as some have phrased it.
That’s one of the topics explored in the latest episode of Ready.Set.Midmarket!
Guest Nicole Beckwith, senior director of security engineering and operations at Cribl, served as a U.S. Marshal and was assigned as a task force officer with the Secret Service, specializing in financial fraud, digital forensics and cybercrime investigations.
Beckwith, leant her insight as someone who has traversed both the real and cybercriminal worlds. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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