About this podcast
If you’ve worked in IT, you’ve probably got a few good ghost stories. This show is dedicated to those stories and the IT heroes who survived to tell the tale. Join some of the world’s top IT leaders as they recount the most harrowing experiences of their careers. They’ll share how they found themselves in hot water, managed to escape disaster, and their best advice for making sure you don’t end up in the sequel. This is IT Horror Stories, where the call is coming from inside the office. Brought to you by NinjaOne, the leader in automated endpoint management.
Episodes
- ITOops · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 12In the spine-tingling finale of IT Horror Stories, host Jonathan Crowe is joined by a fearless lineup of IT veterans who have stared into the digital void and lived to tell the…
- Human Error · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 11IT isn’t just wires and widgets. It’s a minefield of lurking disasters waiting to strike. Few know that better than Mark Settle, 7-time CIO and author, who’s survived more…
- Bitcoin and Brown Paper Bags · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 10Negotiating with cybercriminals is no walk in the park. Shelley Ma, incident response lead for Coalition Incident Response, highlights the human element of cybersecurity: dealing…
- The Nightmare Phone Call · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 9Things are bound to go sideways in the world of IT and security, but there are certain three-letter government organizations that you never want to hear from. Andrew Wilder tells…
- Point of No Rollback · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 8Mahesh Guruswamy, CPTO at Kickstarter and author of How to Deliver Bad News and Get Away with It, recounts the night he took down production and had no other choice but to push…
- Crisis Clarity · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 7When blueprints start to smolder, true leaders draft new ones on the fly. Former architect turned Wawa CIO & SVP John Collier reveals how his background in design thinking has…
- POS SOS · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 6Wyatt Hansen unpacks how a back of house server going down turns into a massive nightmare for one of his biggest retail clients, shuttering POS systems and leading to business…
- Confessions of an Adversary · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 5Dr. Chase Cunningham, aka DrZeroTrust, sheds light on what a horror story looks like from an adversarial perspective. He explores why doing the basics and applying them…
- Last Out · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 4When COVID lockdowns loom in early 2020, it’s up to Matthew's team to prepare hundreds of laptops for an employee base that’s about to start working from home.
- No Longer a Drill · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 3Could a robust internal process and contingency plan have prevented a disastrous fire suppression test in a data center? Mike Anderson, CDO and CIO of Netskope, describes the…
- Dead in the Water · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 2When a corrupted virus definition file was distributed by a centralized management server, it was up to Jay Abbott to find a fix for the company-wide blue screen of death.
- Hurricanes and Diesel Fuel · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 1When a Hurricane causes a major power outage, Nick’s data center is pushed to run on generator power. Then the generator runs out of fuel… In the middle of a fuel shortage.
- Trailer · 1 min · Season 1If you’ve worked in IT, you’ve probably got a few ghost stories. This show is dedicated to those stories and the IT heroes who survived to tell the tale.
