FIT for Success

A ransomware attack on a single supplier. Fourteen Toyota plants shut down. 13,000 cars not built. In one day. In this episode of FIT for Success, Ephraim sits down with Sumit Vakil — co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Resilinc, one of the world's leading experts in supply chain risk — to talk about the cybersecurity threat most businesses overlook entirely: their suppliers. Sumit breaks down...

Sean Brehm has fought in three domains of warfare. He thinks cybersecurity is the fifth — and most businesses are sending their cook into a knife fight. In this episode of FIT for Success, Ephraim sits down with Sean Brehm — Special Forces veteran, former IBM AI executive, and founder of CrowdPoint Technologies — to explore why the military framework for defending a city maps almost perfectly onto...

Most businesses think cybersecurity insurance will save them. Robert Thomas thinks they're reading the fine print wrong. In this episode of FIT for Success, Ephraim sits down with Robert Thomas — former NSA intelligence officer and founder of 180A Consulting — to break down how the cybersecurity insurance landscape has quietly changed, and why the policy you bought might not cover anywhere near wh...

Most businesses assume cybersecurity is a one-time fix. Matthew Connor has spent 11 years proving it isn't. In this episode of FIT for Success, Ephraim sits down with Matthew Connor — Army Intel veteran, Mandarin speaker, and founder of CyberLynx — to talk about how fast the threat landscape is moving and what businesses need to do to keep up. Matthew breaks down SIM cloning attacks that defeated...

Most organizations treat cybersecurity as a technical problem. Karen Worstell thinks it's a business imperative — and the law is starting to agree. In this episode of FIT for Success, Ephraim sits down with Karen Worstell, a cybersecurity pioneer who got her start at Boeing in the late '80s before going on to run security at Bank of America, AT&T Wireless, Microsoft, and VMware. Karen introduc...

Twenty years ago, cybersecurity wasn't even on the radar for law firm IT directors. The job was keeping systems up. Today, it might be the most consequential role in the building. In this episode of FIT for Success, Ephraim sits down with Ray Moore — a veteran IT leader who spent decades inside law firms before bringing that experience to FIT Solutions — to talk about how the threat landscape has...

Law firms are one of the most targeted organizations in cybersecurity, and one of the hardest to protect. Attorneys want zero friction, zero downtime, and zero interruptions to billing. Convincing them to care about security is a battle all its own. In this episode of FIT for Success, Ephraim sits down with Jim Harden, Director of IT at Tyson & Mendes, a fully remote law firm that has grown to...

Every growing business hits a wall. The question is whether you have the systems to break through it. In part two of FIT Solutions' origin story, Ephraim, David, and Damien get into the harder lessons — the clients they lost and won back, the leadership gaps that cost them, and the specific breakpoints (at $3M, $5M, $8M, $15M, and $25M) where the business almost came apart at the seams. They also...

What does it actually look like to build a company from nothing? In this episode of FIT for Success, Ephraim sits down with two of FIT Solutions' longest-tenured team members, David Gasson (employee #4) and Damien Anderson (employee #6), to pull back the curtain on the early days of building the company. They talk about the gym that doubled as their first office, the bar where they conducted job i...

Most businesses assume they're too small to be a target. They're not. In this episode of FIT for Success, Ephraim Ebstein and Damien Anderson — vCISO of FIT Solutions — pull back the curtain on what's actually happening in the cybersecurity world right now, including the threats that never make the news. They share real breach stories from the field: a crane rental company that lost hundreds of th...

Most podcasts fail. In this episode of FIT for Success, Ephraim sits down with Mark Adams — host of the Unforget Yourself Show — to break down exactly why, and what separates the shows that actually drive business results from the ones that fade out after six episodes. They get into how to turn a podcast into a real lead generation and relationship-building tool, and what measurable ROI from conte...

Johnny Najar scaled Frutto Foods to $16 million in just two years. In this episode of FIT for Success, Ephraim sits down with Johnny to unpack how he did it — the mentors who shaped his thinking, the hiring decisions that made or broke his momentum, and the hard lessons that came with growing fast. If you're building or leading a business, this one's worth your full attention.

In this episode of FIT for Success , Ephraim Ebstein sits down with Dr. Eric Cole — former CIA hacker, cybersecurity expert, and advisor to Fortune 50 companies — to discuss the evolving cybersecurity landscape and what businesses must do to stay protected. Dr. Cole shares insights from decades of experience in cyber warfare, threat intelligence, and security strategy, explaining how modern attack...

In the debut episode of FIT for Success, Ephraim sits down with Dustin Hillis — author of Capacity , President of SafeSpaceGlobal. AI , and Chief Strategy Officer of Tough Stump Technologies — to explore how AI is being deployed in the real world to save lives and improve public safety. They get into actual use cases, the hard realities of building mission-driven technology companies, and what it...