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Cybersecurity solutions that are designed for large enterprises are usually too expensive, arduous to maintain, and too difficult to staff for constant monitoring for small businesses.
In this episode, John Blair, President and CEO at Blair Technology Solutions, is joined by Guy Cunningham, Senior Vice President for Channel Sales and Alliance at Netsurion, to discuss how Endpoint Protection and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions for SMB have evolved and how SMB can stay ahead of the cybersecurity game with a holistic approach that involves technology, people and process. 

Everyone is familiar with the three pillars of cybersecurity: People, Process and Technology. However, most companies typically invest in just one area – technology and fail to recognize that the most significant security risk remains the human factor. 
In this episode, John Blair, President and CEO at Blair Technology Solutions, is joined by Jim Kootnekoff, President and CEO of SecuSolutions, to discuss the changing landscape of cybersecurity, the importance of security awareness, and the top cybersecurity trends in the post pandemic world. 

In our third episode, host John Blair, President and CEO at Blair Technology Solutions, is joined by Brad Schick, Chief Executive Officer at Skytap to discuss migrating traditional, business-critical applications into the cloud-centric world. 
Tune in to find out their thoughts on the topic, the challenges they have found with traditional IBM Power clients, and how they overcome these client’s challenges and hesitation to captivate early adopters to the cloud. 
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Our second episode includes content from a recent webinar hosted by Blair Technology Solutions Inc. on November 19th, 2020. In this webinar, host John Blair is joined by keynote speaker Kevin Lonergan, Research Manager, Security and Infrastructure at IDC Canada, as well as panelists Paul Leone, CIO & Risk Management Officer at Honda Canada Inc., Doug Scott, VP of IT at TST-CF Express, and Turham Djevdet, Manager of Technical Services at TST-CF Express. Together they discuss insights from IDC Canada’s recent study on Digital Transformation and the new paradigm for cybersecurity. 
Find out how the pandemic is having lasting effects on digital transformation, understand how leading Canadian enterprises are shifting their IT strategies to a risk-based approach,  discover security strategies and steps your organization must take to become more “digitally determined”, and learn from Canadian Industry leaders on how they improved their preparedness for the next disaster. 
Want to learn more? Contact us at info@blairtechnology.com for a copy of the IDC InfoBrief, “A Lesson in Agility Without Security: How to Ensure We Get the Next Crisis Right” to learn key cybersecurity considerations when moving forward into the next normal. 

In our premiere episode, host John Blair is joined by Timothy Prickett Morgan, President of Guild Companies Inc. and co-editor of The Four Hundred to discuss the cloud trends for IBM Power Systems. 
Find out what their thoughts are on IBM’s recent announcement to spin off its Global Technology Services (GTS) group as a free-standing organization, the dangers of Microsoft, and how mid-market companies or enterprises can leverage the cloud.
Ready to make the switch to cloud?  Download our FREE e-book, “The Cloud Factor - Your Competitive Advantage: IBM Power Systems Virtual Server on Cloud” to learn how to build a competitive cloud strategy. https://www.blairtechnology.com/cloud-factor-ebook