EChannelNews Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast, host Julian Lee speaks with Brendan Griffin , Director of Threat Research at N-Able , to unpack the findings of their “AI Fog” report, which surveyed nearly 600 cybersecurity decision-makers across the US and UK. The report reveals a striking paradox in the industry: while over 80% of organizations are rapidly adopting AI tools to accelerate threat detection and o...

Send us Fan Mail Eric Parent , Founder and CEO of EVA Technologies , discusses the systemic vulnerabilities plaguing modern cybersecurity and introduces his company’s newly commercialized security platform. Drawing on 30 years of military and enterprise cybersecurity experience, Eric argues that most organizations focus on superficial “checkbox compliance” rather than addressing the root causes of...

Send us Fan Mail Host Paolo Del Nibletto speaks with Brian Harmison , CEO of Corsica Technologies (a national MSP based in Greenville, SC), regarding their industry survey of 600 mid-market decision-makers. The research highlights an “MSP Trust Gap”: while 95% of mid-market organizations express overall trust in their current MSP, roughly two-thirds (65%) are open to evaluating alternative service...

Send us Fan Mail Denis Villeneuve , Cybersecurity and Resiliency Practice Lead at Kyndryl , talks about the evolving threat landscape driven by frontier AI models and autonomous agentic hacking. While core attack vectors remain familiar, AI has shifted cyber threats from human speed to machine speed, altering the scale, velocity, and economics of cyber risk. With over 40,000 Common Vulnerabilities...

Send us Fan Mail Host Julian Lee speaks with David Cottingham , President of rf IDEAS , about how the company automates secure access workflows by extending ubiquitous employee badges and mobile credentials beyond door access into application logins. David explains how replacing traditional passwords with encrypted 256-bit RFID badges, FIDO keys, or BLE/mobile credentials eliminates password fatig...

Send us Fan Mail Directly from Black Hat SecTor in Toronto, eChannelnews host Paolo Del Nibletto speaks with Bojan Simic , CEO and Co-Founder of HYPR , regarding the evolving landscape of identity assurance and authentication bypass threats. Bojan emphasizes that traditional passwords, one-time codes, and session tokens remain vulnerable to AI-accelerated browser spoofing, interception, and help d...

Send us Fan Mail Presenters: Julian Lee , Publisher, Community Builder, Speaker, Channel Ecosystem Developer with a focus on cybersecurity, AI and Digital Transformation Paolo Del Nibletto , Editor, eChannelNews Randal Wark , Owner, MTech Cyber (MSP & Cybersecurity) ★ Conference Host ★ Mastermind Facilitator ★ Podcast Host ★ Journalist The Cybersecurity Defense Ecosystem aims to assist Managed...

Send us Fan Mail PlexTrac founder and CEO Dan DeCloss joins host Julian Lee to discuss the rapid evolution of penetration testing from an annual compliance formality into a continuous, data-driven security discipline. Drawing on his background with the U.S. Department of Defense and enterprise security teams, Dan outlines how the rise of automated and AI-driven threat capabilities requires defende...

Send us Fan Mail David Schwartz , CEO of PIA , challenges the notion of an impending “SaaS-pocalypse.” He argues that while AI capabilities like vibe coding allow users to build quick custom features, they do not replace full-scale Software-as-a-Service platforms. Developing and maintaining reliable enterprise software requires ongoing DevOps support, bug fixes, R&D, and strict adherence to se...

Send us Fan Mail Presenters: Julian Lee , Publisher, Community Builder, Speaker, Channel Ecosystem Developer with a focus on cybersecurity, AI and Digital Transformation Paolo Del Nibletto , Editor, eChannelNews Evgeniy Kharam , Publisher, Community Builder, Speaker, Channel Ecosystem Developer with a focus on cybersecurity, AI and Digital Transformation Cybersecurity Architect | Evangelist | Cons...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast, Julian sits down with Jim Moschos , National Sales Director for Technology Finance at Mitsubishi HC Capital Canada , to address the mounting market headwinds facing MSPs and the broader IT channel. Jim highlights that ongoing global AI infrastructure demand, supply chain disruptions, fluctuating exchange rates, and freight costs have created severe hardware shorta...

Send us Fan Mail Ken Rayner and Kenrick Bagnall of RB Cyber , detailed how RB Cyber’s Lloyd’s of London-backed underwriting model evaluates risk at the MSP level rather than forcing individual end-clients through lengthy questionnaires. By leveraging the MSP’s existing technical stack and security controls, the platform delivers automated, online quotes in under ten seconds. They highlighted featu...

Send us Fan Mail Matteo Rebeschini , Strategic Solutions Engineer at real-time data platform vendor Hydrolix , discussed the operational challenges traditional Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems face when attempting to process modern enterprise data volumes. He explained that legacy SIEM platforms struggle to scale cost-effectively, forcing organizations into complex data tie...

Send us Fan Mail Julian Lee and Paolo Del Nibletto talk about the 50 Best Managed IT Companies assessment and the value of this survey (a free 200+ question assessment). Paolo describes it as visiting a “business psychiatrist” once a year, forcing MSP leaders to pause, ask tough questions about valuation and operations, evaluate their business health, and benchmark performance across their leaders...

Send us Fan Mail Adam Markowitz , CEO and co-founder of Drata discussed the growing security, compliance, and governance challenges created by autonomous AI agents. While AI adoption in enterprise environments is surging, governance and visibility are severely lagging behind. Drata’s platform data shows that 30% of vendor security questionnaire inquiries now center around AI agent governance (up f...

Send us Fan Mail Adam Slutskin , Co-Founder and Co-Owner of CyberFox , detailed his company’s evolution from an executive team of ConnectWise alumni to a security powerhouse serving roughly 4,000 MSPs. Following previous foundational integrations of Password Boss and AutoElevate, CyberFox closed the acquisition of Timus, a strategic move that introduces Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and secure...

Send us Fan Mail Presenters: Julian Lee , Publisher, Community Builder, Speaker, Channel Ecosystem Developer with a focus on cybersecurity, AI and Digital Transformation Paolo Del Nibletto , Editor, eChannelNews Evgeniy Kharam , Publisher, Community Builder, Speaker, Channel Ecosystem Developer with a focus on cybersecurity, AI and Digital Transformation Cybersecurity Architect | Evangelist | Cons...

Send us Fan Mail Speakers: Paolo Del Nibletto , eChannelNEWS and Michael Contento , Founder at Simple Mystery This podcast episode introduced the “Three Legs” framework (balancing business, finance, and personal stability) to guide entrepreneurs through exit planning, scaling, and organizational maturity. Michael illustrated these concepts using his track record of scaling My Blue Umbrella past $1...

Send us Fan Mail Jim Piazza , Chief AI Officer at Ensono , talked about how legacy mainframe systems fit into the modern AI era and explored the practical strategies large enterprises must adopt to modernize their core infrastructure. A significant number of Fortune 500 companies continue to run their most critical workloads, such as credit card transaction processing, on IBM Z and Power platforms...

Send us Fan Mail As artificial intelligence reshapes the managed services landscape, MSPs are facing a defining moment. According to the MSP Poverty Line framework, developed by EChannelNews, organizations that fail to evolve risk falling behind, while those that embrace change can position themselves for long-term growth and profitability. The good news is that crossing the MSP Poverty Line is ac...

Send us Fan Mail Presenters: Julian Lee , Publisher, Community Builder, Speaker, Channel Ecosystem Developer with a focus on cybersecurity, AI and Digital Transformation Paolo Del Nibletto , Editor, eChannelNews Nim Nadarajah , C.CISO, Cyber Security, Compliance & Transformation Expert | Executive Board Member | Keynote Speaker Adam Bennett , Co-Founder & CEO at SureStack CEO at Crosshair...

Send us Fan Mail Danielle Morrison , National Practice Manager – Healthcare IT Services at All Covered , analyzed the healthcare threat landscape and explored how the industry’s lag in IT modernization has created severe security gaps. With an expanding attack surface of medical devices and legacy systems, under-supported small and mid-size providers frequently suffer from incomplete tooling, misc...

Send us Fan Mail Manuj Aggarwal , Founder of TetraNoodle Technologies , examined the trajectory of major AI vendors toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) through automated code generation. He noted that while this shift is driving tech-sector restructuring and impacting global spending power, it presents a critical “crossroads” for MSPs. As technical tasks become increasingly commoditized a...

Send us Fan Mail Antoine Jabari , Co-Founder, GM Channel & Alliances Business at JumpCloud , explored the high-stakes evolution of agentic AI adoption and its profound implications for the channel. He highlighted a widening gap between early adopters rearchitecting their operating models and a long tail of organizations still utilizing AI merely for surface-level productivity. Antoine position...

Send us Fan Mail Denis Villeneuve , Cybersecurity and Resiliency Practice Lead at Kyndryl , examined the profound implications of frontier AI models—such as Mythos—for enterprise cybersecurity, framing the challenge as a strategic decision-making mandate rather than a cause for alarm. While core cybersecurity principles remain foundational, the acceleration of AI-driven vulnerability discovery and...