Data protection is a business conversation, not just an IT task. In this episode, Arcserve’s Chief Product and Technology Officer Michael Lin explains why executives need to understand the risks of ransomware, downtime, and recovery gaps, and how IT leaders can communicate these issues in a way that drives action. He shares how to align technology priorities with business objectives, make backup and recovery part of boardroom discussions, and ensure the organization can maintain operations when the unexpected happens.

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Most security teams still can’t answer a fundamental question: where is our sensitive data, and who has access to it? In this episode of Tech 2 Exec, Karthik Krishnan, CEO of Concentric AI, joins Mike and Josh to explain why discovery is still broken—and how their context-aware language models are helping organizations operationalize data security in a way that actually works. We talk about why legacy approaches to data security fall short, how to evaluate whether a solution is truly AI-driven, and what steps organizations can take to reduce risk, streamline remediation, and lower costs.

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VLCM CEO Mike Linton and CIO Josh Linton interview Paul Whittier, Principal Cybersecurity Adviser at Adlumin, to challenge the myth that smaller organizations aren’t on attackers’ radar and how to outline a practical first-step security plan. From using NIST as a clear roadmap and meeting insurance-driven controls, to patching, immutable backups, 24×7 monitoring, and user training, Paul shows why funding prevention now beats paying for recovery later.

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