Episodes

  • When the Threat Moves Daily and the Law Moves in Years | An Interview with James Morris | Redefining CyberSecurity With Sean Martin — On Location at InfoSecurity Europe 2026

    When the Threat Moves Daily and the Law Moves in Years | An Interview with James Morris | Redefining CyberSecurity With Sean Martin — On Location at InfoSecurity Europe 2026
    Jun 13 2026
    PODCAST EPISODE | Redefining CyberSecurity With Sean Martin — On Location at InfoSecurity Europe 2026 On Location With Sean Martin And Marco Ciappelli The UK’s threats change by the day. Its laws change over years. Sean Martin sat down with James Morris — former Member of Parliament, now Director of the CSBR — to ask how a government writes cyber policy fast enough to matter, and why “resilience” has quietly stopped being a technical word. 📺 Watch | 🎙️ Listen | https://www.itspmagazine.com/infosecurity-europe-2026-infosec-london-cybersecurity-event-coverage A threat that updates every morning. A legislative process that measures itself in years. Somewhere between those two clocks sits the whole problem of cyber policy, and most of the time we pretend the gap isn’t there. When Sean Martin sat down with James Morris at InfoSecurity Europe, that gap was the quiet subject under everything they discussed. This is Sean’s territory, the place where cybersecurity stops being a lab problem and becomes a business and a political one. Morris knows it as well as anyone. He spent fourteen years as a Member of the UK Parliament, fought five elections, served under five prime ministers, and chaired the cross-party group on cybersecurity before leaving to run the CSBR, an independent policy centre working at the seam between cyber and resilience. What struck me, listening back, is how little of their conversation was actually about technology. The UK has a Cyber Security and Resilience Bill moving through Parliament. It was introduced more than a year ago. It still won’t be operational for the better part of another year. Meanwhile the world it was written for has already moved: AI went mainstream, alliances shifted, and the head of GCHQ began saying out loud the kind of thing intelligence chiefs usually keep behind closed doors. You cannot legislate at that speed, so the government did the only thing a slow system can do when it fears the future. It gave itself the power to act later. More discretion, more designation, more reach from the top. Sensible, maybe. But Morris names the cost, and it is the part I keep turning over. A law written from the top down only works if the people at the bottom believe in it. Otherwise companies perform compliance instead of building resilience, gaming the enforcement regime rather than getting safer. The letter without the spirit. Then there is the word itself. Resilience used to mean power plants and railways, the critical national infrastructure everyone pictures. But when Marks & Spencer and Jaguar Land Rover were knocked sideways by breaches that wouldn’t even fall under the new bill, the definition cracked open. Resilience, Morris argues, is really about the underpinnings of an economy. And almost as an aside, he extends it to the resilience of the political system itself, a system that burns through leaders and demands answers by the next news cycle. That line belongs in a sociology seminar, not a cyber panel. Because the deepest vulnerability he describes is not a zero-day. It is an attention span. We have built institutions optimized for the short term and handed them a problem that only yields to patience. The threat is fast. The fix is slow. Our politics rewards fast. I grew up in a city that took more than a century to finish a single cathedral. Nobody who laid the first stone lived to stand under the dome. That kind of time has gone out of fashion, and cyber resilience is exactly the sort of thing that suffers for its absence. So what do we carry forward, and what do we leave behind? Morris offers the practical half of the answer to business owners: stop treating this as an IT task to delegate, move it into the boardroom, rehearse the breach before it happens, and plan for the day the press is on your lawn. The harder half is cultural. We have to relearn patience inside systems built to forget it. Sean’s full conversation with James Morris is linked below, along with the rest of our InfoSecurity Europe coverage. It is worth your time. Let’s keep thinking. — Marcohttps://www.marcociappelli.com Co-Founder ITSPmagazine & Studio C60 | Creative Director | Branding & Marketing Advisor | Journalist | Writer | On Location With Sean Martin And Marco Ciappelli | 🌎 LAX🛸FLR 🌍 About the Host Sean Martin, CISSP, is the co-founder and Director of Operations and Programming at ITSPmagazine, and the host of the Redefining CyberSecurity podcast. An information security and technology veteran of more than thirty years and a multiple-time CISSP, he led engineering and delivery for hundreds of cybersecurity products before turning to journalism and broadcasting. Through Redefining CyberSecurity he keeps pressing one question: if we are selling security insincerely, buying it indiscriminately, and deploying it ineffectively, how do we make it usable, honest, and a real source of business value? He teaches at Pepperdine’s Graziadio Business School ...
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    17 mins
  • Connecting Secure Storage to the Bigger Security Picture | A Brand Highlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Jeanclaude Toma, Chief Executive Officer of Apricorn

    Connecting Secure Storage to the Bigger Security Picture | A Brand Highlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Jeanclaude Toma, Chief Executive Officer of Apricorn
    Jun 12 2026

    At Infosecurity Europe 2026, Jeanclaude Toma, Chief Executive Officer of Apricorn, joins Sean Martin to reframe where secure storage fits in the security conversation. After roughly four decades building hardware-encrypted drives, Apricorn wants the market to treat storage as a security decision rather than a hardware afterthought.

    How does a storage device become a security control? Toma points to the device itself: no one reaches the data without the code. Access requires a PIN entered on the drive, and the encrypted vault stays closed to everyone else. The protection travels with the drive and does not depend on the host system. Apricorn builds to FIPS certification requirements, hardens against environmental stress down to the connector, and tests repeatedly so compliance arrives built in.

    Why does this matter at the macro scale? Toma joined Apricorn three months ago to expand the portfolio and connect storage to the broader security marketplace, from military, government, and aerospace settings to the enterprise. He also hints at new form factors still under wraps. Listen in to hear why Apricorn treats the business and operations behind the product as seriously as the product itself.

    This is a Brand Highlight. A Brand Highlight is a ~5 minute introductory conversation designed to put a spotlight on the guest and their company. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#highlight

    GUEST
    Jeanclaude Toma, Chief Executive Officer, Apricorn
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanclaude-toma/

    RESOURCES
    Learn more about Apricorn: https://apricorn.com
    Infosecurity Europe 2026 coverage from ITSPmagazine: https://www.itspmagazine.com/infosecurity-europe-2026-infosec-london-cybersecurity-event-coverage

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    KEYWORDS
    Jeanclaude Toma, Apricorn, Sean Martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand highlight, hardware-encrypted storage, FIPS certified storage, secure data storage, encrypted USB drives, data protection, Infosecurity Europe 2026, secure peripherals, PIN authenticated storage


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    7 mins
  • Sixty Products, One Engine | A Brand Highlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with VimalRaj Sampathkumar, Head of Technical Operations, UK & Ireland of ManageEngine

    Sixty Products, One Engine | A Brand Highlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with VimalRaj Sampathkumar, Head of Technical Operations, UK & Ireland of ManageEngine
    Jun 12 2026

    At Infosecurity Europe 2026 in London, VimalRaj Sampathkumar, Head of Technical Operations for the UK and Ireland at ManageEngine, opens with a sharp observation: the market does not lack tools, it lacks tools that work together. After 16 years with the company, he has watched IT and security teams collect software faster than they can connect it.

    ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation, builds roughly 60 products across endpoint management, IT operations, service management, and identity and access management. The point is not the count. VimalRaj Sampathkumar explains how tight integration lets those products share data, run automations, and power workflows, so a process like joiner-mover-leaver can be shaped to how each organization actually works instead of forced into a template.

    That same logic carries into cybersecurity. Customers rarely ask for one feature; they ask how to strengthen their posture and reach resilience. ManageEngine answers with solutions that scale from a single tool to a full suite, backed by flexible licensing and an AI roadmap. It is a look at why consolidation, not collection, is becoming the smarter security strategy.

    This is a Brand Highlight. A Brand Highlight is a ~5 minute introductory conversation designed to put a spotlight on the guest and their company. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#highlight

    GUEST
    VimalRaj Sampathkumar, Head of Technical Operations, UK & Ireland, ManageEngine
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zenandzipfiles/

    RESOURCES
    Learn more about ManageEngine: https://www.manageengine.com
    Infosecurity Europe 2026 coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/infosecurity-europe-2026-infosec-london-cybersecurity-event-coverage

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    KEYWORDS
    VimalRaj Sampathkumar, ManageEngine, Zoho Corporation, Sean Martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand highlight, IT management, IT security, endpoint management, identity and access management, IT operations, integration, consolidation, cyber resilience, Infosecurity Europe 2026


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    7 mins
  • Where Data Sovereignty and Always-On Security Operations Meet | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Bill Peterson, Senior Director of Product Marketing of Sumo Logic

    Where Data Sovereignty and Always-On Security Operations Meet | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Bill Peterson, Senior Director of Product Marketing of Sumo Logic
    Jun 12 2026
    At Infosecurity Europe 2026 in London, Bill Peterson, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Sumo Logic, joins us to unpack a tension every regulated security team knows well. When an incident hits, the business has to keep running. At the same time, regulators expect sensitive data to stay in region. For a long time, those two demands have pulled in opposite directions. Sumo Logic has spent 15 years as a SaaS platform on AWS, processing roughly four exabytes of data a day for around 2,000 customers. The core promise is speed, driving mean time to resolve as low as possible. Peterson frames it in business terms, because the person signing the check wants to know the return, not the bits and bytes. The news from the show is Sumo Logic availability on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. EU organizations can keep their data in region, handled by EU staff, while still running the full platform for incident response. That turns a painful either/or into a checklist a regulated buyer can complete. Genesys is the first customer live in the sovereign cloud, with payment processor OpenPay preparing to follow. How does this play out for highly regulated industries? Sumo Logic is focused on finance, healthcare, telco, and government, the verticals feeling the most pressure. The path Peterson describes is simple: let Sumo Logic handle incident management, let AWS move and grow the data in region, and check the sovereignty box without giving up operational readiness. Underneath sits a full-featured SIEM and Dojo AI, the agentic approach Sumo Logic launched earlier this year. The goal is not to replace analysts but to keep a human in the loop while handing proven, repetitive work to an agent. Fix one server, confirm the solution, then let an agent patch the other 599 under oversight. A SOC Analyst Agent reaches general availability at Black Hat later this year, alongside an MCP server. On observability, the differentiator is reading both structured and unstructured data without normalizing it first. A zip code is structured; a cryptic web hook error is not. Sumo Logic reads both, which feeds directly into faster time to identify and faster time to resolve. For any leader weighing sovereignty against uptime, Bill Peterson makes a clear case that they can finally live in the same plan. This is a Brand Spotlight. A Brand Spotlight is a ~15 minute conversation designed to explore the guest, their company, and what makes their approach unique. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#spotlight GUEST Bill Peterson, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Sumo Logic LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williampetersonjr/ RESOURCES Learn more about Sumo Logic: https://www.sumologic.com/ Sumo Logic on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (announced at Infosecurity Europe 2026): https://www.sumologic.com/newsroom Infosecurity Europe 2026 event coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/infosecurity-europe-2026-infosec-london-cybersecurity-event-coverage Are you interested in telling your story? ▶︎ Full Length Brand Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#full ▶︎ Brand Spotlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#spotlight ▶︎ Brand Highlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#highlight ▶︎ Get your own Brand Briefing at an upcoming event: https://www.studioc60.com/buy-brand-briefings KEYWORDS Bill Peterson, Sumo Logic, Sean Martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand spotlight, AWS European Sovereign Cloud, data sovereignty, incident response, mean time to resolve, SIEM, security operations, Dojo AI, agentic AI, SOC analyst agent, observability, log analytics, Infosecurity Europe 2026 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    17 mins
  • Measuring Risk Was Never the Point | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Matt Middleton-Leal, Regional Vice President, Northern Europe of Qualys

    Measuring Risk Was Never the Point | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Matt Middleton-Leal, Regional Vice President, Northern Europe of Qualys
    Jun 12 2026

    At Infosecurity Europe 2026, Matt Middleton-Leal, Regional Vice President for Qualys across Northern Europe, joins Sean Martin inside the Risk Operations Center built into the Qualys booth. The premise is blunt: cybersecurity has spent years getting good at measuring risk and almost no time getting good at fixing it. The Risk Operations Center, or ROC, is the Qualys answer to that imbalance.

    So what is a ROC? It is not a product. Middleton-Leal describes it as an operating model that pulls scattered risk signals together, ranks them by business context and financial impact, and drives them toward remediation. If a SOC looks in the rearview mirror at what already happened, the ROC looks through the windshield at the risk ahead.

    Why now? Because risk moves at machine speed. In an AI-driven world of frontier models and autonomous agents, Middleton-Leal argues that remediation tied to service desk tickets is already too slow. He shares what happens when a client prepares to deploy tens of thousands of new agents before anyone knows what those agents touch or where their data goes.

    The example that lands hardest is a number: 62 million risk findings across one client's combined tooling. Middleton-Leal walks through how threat intelligence, business context, and safe exploitability testing collapse that figure to under one percent of fixes that genuinely reduce loss. It is a concrete look at how to prioritize remediation instead of drowning in dashboards.

    There is a quieter shift underneath it all: financial risk quantification, long reserved for the largest banks, reaching companies that never had the analysts to build it. Working with Richard Seiersen, Chief Risk Technology Officer at Qualys, the company is building ways to answer questions like what a ransomware event would likely cost a business in your sector and region. Middleton-Leal closes with the one place every organization should start, whether they use Qualys or not.

    This is a Brand Spotlight. A Brand Spotlight is a ~15 minute conversation designed to explore the guest, their company, and what makes their approach unique. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#spotlight

    GUEST
    Matt Middleton-Leal, Regional Vice President, Northern Europe, Qualys
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-middleton-leal-a56557/

    RESOURCES
    Qualys: https://www.qualys.com
    ITSPmagazine Infosecurity Europe 2026 coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/infosecurity-europe-2026-infosec-london-cybersecurity-event-coverage
    Richard Seiersen, Chief Risk Technology Officer at Qualys, co-author of "How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk"
    Connect with Matt Middleton-Leal on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-middleton-leal-a56557/

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    KEYWORDS
    Matt Middleton-Leal, Qualys, Sean Martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand spotlight, Risk Operations Center, ROC, risk remediation, cyber risk quantification, exposure management, vulnerability management, Richard Seiersen, AI security risk, Infosecurity Europe 2026, machine speed remediation, security operations


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    16 mins
  • When the Boardroom Asks "Are We Okay?" | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Ian Schenkel, VP Sales, EMEA & APAC of Intel 471

    When the Boardroom Asks "Are We Okay?" | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Ian Schenkel, VP Sales, EMEA & APAC of Intel 471
    Jun 11 2026

    Something has changed at the board level. Recorded in the media room at Infosecurity Europe 2026 in London, Ian Schenkel, VP Sales, EMEA & APAC of Intel 471, describes directors who no longer take security on faith. After a year of headline breaches from Jaguar Land Rover to Marks and Spencer and the Co-op, leadership wants proof rather than promises.

    What does the board actually want to know? A straight answer to one question: are we okay? Ian Schenkel starts with geopolitics. Nation-state activity, supply chain exposure, and shifting global markets all shape whether a business can keep running. Threat intelligence becomes the early warning system leaders use to decide where to move and which actors have a history of targeting their industry.

    The next question gets personal. Does this affect us? Have we already been hit? This is where Intel 471 leans on retroactive threat detection. When new indicators of compromise surface, an analyst can build detection queries in seconds against a SIEM, SOAR tool, SentinelOne, Microsoft, or Palo Alto, then report back to the board with a clear answer.

    How does intelligence reach the board without getting lost in the weeds? It travels as a story the board can act on. Intel 471 pulls its three core areas, cyber threat intelligence, attack surface management, and threat hunting, into a single report that scales from an executive summary to a detailed account of what was found and neutralized.

    The stories make it real. During merger rumors, an attacker registered a look-alike domain and emailed employees from it. In another case, Intel 471 warned an organization it did not yet work with about a politically motivated actor that was openly discussing it. The value is the early signal, long before perimeter and endpoint defenses ever engage.

    Sometimes the right move is not technical at all. It might be briefing executives on targeted ransomware or reminding employees to stay alert against the email that has not arrived yet. The throughline, as Ian Schenkel frames it, is prevention over reaction, and a board finally asking the right questions.

    This is a Brand Spotlight. A Brand Spotlight is a ~15 minute conversation designed to explore the guest, their company, and what makes their approach unique. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#spotlight

    GUEST

    Ian Schenkel, VP Sales, EMEA & APAC, Intel 471
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianschenkel/

    RESOURCES

    Learn more about Intel 471: https://www.intel471.com
    Connect with Ian Schenkel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianschenkel/
    Infosecurity Europe 2026 event coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/infosecurity-europe-2026-infosec-london-cybersecurity-event-coverage

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    KEYWORDS

    Ian Schenkel, Intel 471, Sean Martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand spotlight, cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, attack surface management, board reporting, geopolitical intelligence, early warning system, indicators of compromise, retroactive threat detection, business resilience, Infosecurity Europe 2026


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    17 mins
  • Seeing What Your EDR Can't | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Matt Ellison, Director of Sales Engineering EMEA & APAC of Corelight

    Seeing What Your EDR Can't | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Matt Ellison, Director of Sales Engineering EMEA & APAC of Corelight
    Jun 10 2026

    At Infosecurity Europe 2026 in London, Matt Ellison, Director of Sales Engineering EMEA & APAC at Corelight, joins Sean Martin to unpack the visibility gap widening across security operations. The SOC is either drowning in data or missing the data that matters most. Corelight, custodian of the open-source Zeek project, builds a platform that turns raw network traffic into evidence teams can actually use.

    Why do today's most evasive attacks slip past endpoint detection? Because they are designed to. Ellison points to typhoon-style campaigns staged from network and hardware devices specifically to avoid EDR. When a platform sees all of the network traffic moving backwards and forwards, those moves stop being invisible.

    Seeing more is only half the battle. Ellison describes teams trapped by a fear of missing something, switching on every "just in case" detection until alert volume becomes its own crisis. The real question shifts from "what fired" to "what does this actually mean for my environment."

    How do you investigate a detection you cannot see inside? A black box hands down a verdict with no evidence behind it. Corelight takes an open approach, exposing the data behind every conclusion so analysts can follow a flow to its root cause and apply the one thing no vendor ships: their own knowledge of the network.

    The proof tends to show up fast. Ellison recalls a proof of value where, within thirty minutes, the team surfaced sensitive information moving unencrypted across the network. Other finds are smaller but telling, like a finance team's certificate using a weak cipher. Corelight even names its catch-all logs plainly, the "weird" log and the "unknown" log.

    Visibility feeds compliance too. Frameworks like NIS2, DORA, and GDPR demand evidence, not a tool humming in the corner that no one reviews. Ellison previews a coming release that adds asset classification, identifying every device on the network and explaining the why behind it.

    This is a Brand Spotlight. A Brand Spotlight is a ~15 minute conversation designed to explore the guest, their company, and what makes their approach unique. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#spotlight

    GUEST
    Matt Ellison, Director of Sales Engineering EMEA & APAC, Corelight
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrellison/

    RESOURCES
    Learn more about Corelight, including customer stories: https://corelight.com
    Zeek, the open-source NDR project Corelight maintains: https://zeek.org
    Infosecurity Europe 2026 coverage from ITSPmagazine: https://www.itspmagazine.com/infosecurity-europe-2026-infosec-london-cybersecurity-event-coverage

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    KEYWORDS
    Matt Ellison, Corelight, Sean Martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand spotlight, network detection and response, NDR, Zeek, open source security, network visibility, threat hunting, SOC alert fatigue, EDR evasion, encrypted traffic analysis, NIS2, DORA, GDPR, Infosecurity Europe 2026


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    17 mins
  • Resilience Is the New Compliance: Why Recovery Is the Real Test of Cyber Readiness | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Pete Hannah, VP of Sales, Western Europe of Object First

    Resilience Is the New Compliance: Why Recovery Is the Real Test of Cyber Readiness | A Brand Spotlight at Infosecurity Europe 2026 with Pete Hannah, VP of Sales, Western Europe of Object First
    Jun 10 2026
    At Infosecurity Europe in London, Pete Hannah, VP of Sales for Western Europe at Object First, joins Sean Martin to reframe a question many organizations still get wrong. The issue is not only how to keep ransomware out, but how quickly you can recover once it gets in. With Europe's regulatory landscape tightening, that distinction is becoming the difference between disruption and disaster. What does the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill actually demand? According to Pete Hannah, it reads less like a checklist and more like an operational resilience standard. It expects organizations to manage threats, prove they have tested their recovery plans, and treat resilience as a board-level responsibility with real financial penalties. More than ninety percent of the bill already applies in practice, so waiting for it to become law is a risk in itself. Why do backups matter so much? Because more than ninety percent of cyberattacks target them first. Pete Hannah explains that "immutable" has become a marketing word, and the meaningful test is whether anyone still holds the access to destroy protected data. Object First answers that with absolute immutability, independently tested, with zero destructive access for admins or compromised accounts. That protection is purpose-built for Veeam environments through the Ootbi appliance, the resilient bunker that stays standing even when every password is known and every other system is compromised. When recovery is guaranteed, teams stop worrying about whether they will recover and focus instead on how fast. How does a stretched IT team adopt this without adding overhead? Pete Hannah describes deployment as taking the appliance out of the box, racking it, connecting it, and pointing backups at it. For boards and CISOs under budget and resource pressure, simplicity is the selling point. It is easy to manage, easy to prove, and dependable when it matters. The proof is in the field. Pete Hannah shares stories of customers who survived worst-case scenarios because Object First was the only thing left standing, and one who tracked him down simply to say thank you. In an era where AI is accelerating attacks and a single compromised password has bankrupted companies, knowing you can recover is the new definition of good enough. This is a Brand Spotlight. A Brand Spotlight is a ~15 minute conversation designed to explore the guest, their company, and what makes their approach unique. Learn more: https://www.studioc60.com/creation#spotlight GUEST Pete Hannah, VP of Sales, Western Europe, Object First LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterhannah/ RESOURCES Learn more about Object First: https://objectfirst.com Ootbi by Object First (Out-of-the-Box Immutability): https://objectfirst.com Watch: Anthony Cusimano of Object First at RSAC Conference: https://youtu.be/LMWuZ_NH1lA Infosecurity Europe 2026 event coverage: https://www.itspmagazine.com/infosecurity-europe-2026-infosec-london-cybersecurity-event-coverage Are you interested in telling your story? ▶︎ Full Length Brand Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#full ▶︎ Brand Spotlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#spotlight ▶︎ Brand Highlight Story: https://www.studioc60.com/content-creation#highlight ▶︎ Get your own Brand Briefing at an upcoming event: https://www.studioc60.com/buy-brand-briefings KEYWORDS Pete Hannah, Object First, Ootbi, Sean Martin, brand story, brand marketing, marketing podcast, brand spotlight, immutable backup storage, ransomware recovery, Veeam backup, absolute immutability, Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, cyber resilience, data protection, operational resilience, backup and recovery, Infosecurity Europe 2026 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    17 mins