The Somerford Podcast

Join Anne for a special edition of the Somerford Podcast. featuring a guest panel in discussion around how Somerford provides further value, to both, its customers and Partners.  They explore and detail previous client examples and testimonials, along with examining how the culture and people at Somerford are key to its success. ✓ Get to know Somerford further:  https://www.somerfordassociates.com...

Somerford's 'Women in Tech' Podcast Series continues with Gina Gill, CDIO at the Ministry of Justice UK.  Gina gives us an overview of the MoJ's Digital Strategy and how CIOs in large organisations are facing similar IT challenges, regardless of industry, and how the significance of people encompasses a key 'strand' of a successful Digital strategy. ✓ View our full &a...

Anne kicks off the return of Somerford's 'Women in Tech' Podcast Series by joining Kirtsy Paine, Strategic Technical Advisor at Splunk, in conversation about how Splunk is tackling resilience and sustainability customer pain points.  Kirsty recounts her career path and how it's played a key part in her current role at Splunk, as well as detailing trending issues organisations a...

In this episode, Anne is joined by Lyndon Hedderly, Principle Business Value Consultant at Confluent, for an introduction to Confluent and Kafka. They discuss how customers are utilising Confluent, where Kafka fits in and what Challenges both Confluent Cloud and Kafka are helping to resolve. ✓ Send your questions to Lyndon Hedderley at Confluent: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyndonh/ ━━━━ ▶ Listen...

Matt Lock, Technical Director at Varonis UK, returns to the Somerford Podcast in conversation with Anne Mundy. In this episode, they discuss zero-day vulnerabilities, and what steps CISOs can take to be proactive rather than reactive to potential threats. They also list real-world scenarios alongside what impacts this can have on other organisations and the importance of tackling anomalies before...

Anne is once again joined by Chris Riley, Technology Advocate at Splunk, for a conversation about DevSecOps. They explore "What is DevSecOps and why do we need it?", alongside tangible examples and getting realistic with customer challenges and what next steps they should take. ✓ Watch/Read Chris Riley's "Enabling DevSecOps and Securing the Software Factory With Splunk" .c...

Anne Mundy continues her "Women in Tech" Podcast Series with Shabnam Garg, Senior Information Security Advocate.  In this episode, Anne and Shabnam demystify information and cyber security, delve into Shabnam's career path and advise how other women can join the field. ✓ Find out more about our 'Women in Tech' podcast series: https://www.somerfordassociates.com/women-in-te...

Anne is joined by Matt Lock, Technical Director at Varonis UK, with the aim to break down the new challenges CFOs face as key decision-makers in cyber security.  ✓ Request Varonis' Free Ransomware Preparedness Risk Assessment on our website: https://www.somerfordassociates.com/varonis-dra-resource-page/#ransomware-preparedness-risk-assessment ━━━━ ✓ Learn More About Varonis on our Website: ht...

Anne welcomes back Chris Riley, Technology Advocate at Splunk, for a conversation around evolving your monitoring practice. The podcast delves back into Splunk Observability and overviews how the 'Observability Suite' enables end-to-end visibility into your environment. ✓ Read Chris Riley's article to find out more about code to cloud visibility:   https://www.observability.splunk.c...

Anne is joined by Matt Lock, Technical Director at Varonis UK, to analyse five priorities for a CISO and how Somerford & Varonis can help with their Cyber Resilience and Cloud Security Assessments. They also explore how safe is your data, the ability to detect and respond to a breach, demonstrating appropriate handling of data, increasing the adoption of Cloud in a secure manner and getting th...

Zoe Mackenzie, Cyber Security Analyst & WiCyS UK Ambassador, joins us as the special guest for this WIT Podcast Episode.  During her conversation with Anne Mundy, Zoe recalls her impressive career path up until her current role, and her significant involvement in the WiCyS Organisation. ✓ Find out more about our 'Women in Tech' podcast series: https://www.somerfordassociates.com/wome...

Our latest WIT Podcast episode sees Anne Mundy meet with Brigadier Sara Sharkey, Head of Application Services and DevOps at Defence Digital.  They discuss Sara's particular experiences in IT/DevOps and in the Army, plus they explain why women should see the technology industry as a valuable career path opportunity. ✓ Find out more about our 'Women in Tech' podcast series: https://ww...

Joining Anne Mundy to discuss current cybersecurity challenges, and mnemonic's solution package, is Marie Moe, Senior Technical Consultant at mnemonic.  While discussions touch on Marie's personal career trajectory, they also focus more generally on incident response readiness, and what organisations should be doing to ensure they are better prepared for cyberattacks and other security t...

In this WIT podcast episode, our special guest is Deborah Saffer, Deputy CISO at Cushman & Wakefield. Deborah joins us to discuss her experiences in the cybersecurity industry; her particular role and responsibilities, the current and future challenges she envisions for this field, and how diversity could be improved moving forward. ✓ Find out more about our 'Women in Tech' podcast s...

Join Anne Mundy in our latest podcast episode, featuring John Boero, Partner Solutions Engineer - EMEA/APAC at HashiCorp, and DevOps Advocate & Developer Relations from Splunk, in discussing how to gain visibility on your infrastructure from code to cloud. So if you are in a cloud environment, or hybrid and are working out how to gain visibility across your infrastructure and apps from code to...

In this podcast episode, Anne Mundy is joined by Kathryn Cardose, Co-Founder of North East Ladies Hacking Society, in showcasing Women in Tech, aiming to encourage other females to join the field. They also explore the current and future challenges in Cyber Security, including the difficulties met with mergers and evaluating technology platform choices. Kathryn also outlines the 'Ladies Hacki...

In our latest Podcast episode, Anne invites Baz Donoghue, Technical Cloud Environment Consultant at Somerford, to theorise creating your cloud strategy with your security strategy. They detail the vision, value and visibility such strategy can offer as well as where to get started. ✓ Not sure how to contact us? https://www.somerfordassociates.com/contact-us/ ✓ Learn more about the technologies fea...

In this episode, the Somerford Podcast returns for a second season with host, Anne Mundy, where she's joined by Dominique Top, Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp, to discuss 'HashiStack Enterprise vs Open Source', and what prominent benefits you get through Enterprise. They also examine the distinctions between the Enterprise and Open Source offerings, as well as exploring Terraform us...

Anne welcomes back Neil Thacker, EMEA CISO at Netskope, to discuss Netskope's latest Prove IT campaign. In particular, they explain that your SWG could be blind to more than 50% of traffic, and they showcase how Netskope can prove it. They also explore how to solve these issues, examining 'API JSON' decoding, 'Cloud Control' and examples of both encrypted traffic and &apos...

 In this latest episode, Anne welcomes back Richard Barber, Head of Cloud Sales EMEA at Splunk, as they continue to explore Splunk Cloud: the platform for Operational Intelligence.  Anne and Richard take a deeper dive into Splunk's Cloud Solutions, focusing on detailing it's updated 'workload pricing'.  Learn why organisations are choosing or switching to Splunk Cloud and are p...

In this latest episode, Anne invites James Richmond, Associate Alliances Sales Engineer at Okta, to discuss your challenges in the world of identity access management.  They also explore how Okta addresses these pain points, how easy it is to implement, and how Somerford can help, as an Okta 'Premier Solution Provider'. ✓ Learn More on our Website:  https://www.somerfordassociates.com/ ...

In this latest episode, Anne is joined by Robert Castley, Staff Sales Engineer at Splunk, to explain Splunk's Observability Suite, and what problems the suite is addressing.  They also explore how Somerford, as one of the first 'Observability Partners' in EMEA, can help benefit customers in achieving the most from their data. ✓ Learn More on our Website:  https://www.somerfordassoci...

 In this episode, Anne & Baz (Somerford's Cloud Security Expert) detail Somerford's involvement with their Splunk clients' 'Cloud Journey to Migration'.  They examine the issues involved in initial cloud migration; the security challenges and adaptation, and they also explore other areas where Somerford can provide support.  ✓ Learn More on our Website:  https://www.so...

 Anne is joined by Phil Soane, EMEA Channel Business Development at AWS Marketplace, to discuss the platform and how it can be used in conjunction with Somerford's technology solutions, which are listed on the digital catalogue.  They also analyse AWS users' greatest requirements in the current climate and investigate potential future trends.  ✓ Learn More on our Website:  https://www.so...

 In this episode, Anne invites Ray Ploski, Field CTO at HashiCorp, to analyse the HashiCorp stack, consisting of Terraform, Consul, Vault & Nomad. Specifically, they investigate the benefits that can be found when using this enterprise layer of solutions within an organisation.  They also discuss Hashicorp and the 'Cloud Operating Model', how HashiCorp fits into Somerford's suit...