Surveil

The Surveil Briefing

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Cloud costs are rising. Licensing is shifting. AI spend is exploding. And most enterprises are making million-pound decisions with incomplete data. The Surveil Briefing features the people who built and lead the Surveil platform - from the founders and security leadership to the strategists working with enterprise customers every day. Each episode digs into a single problem that IT leaders, CFOs, FinOps teams and security professionals are dealing with right now, with the depth and honesty that only comes from people who've been in the room when the data lands for the first time. Subscribe whe...

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The FinOps Journey Nobody Prepares You For: What the First 90 Days Actually Look Like 21.04.2026 18:00

There's plenty of content about what FinOps should look like. Almost nothing about what it actually feels like when you're in the middle of it. John Smith, VP of Strategic Alliances at Surveil, walks through the first 90 days of building a FinOps practice inside a complex enterprise. He explains why the biggest blocker isn't technology - it's ownership, why jumping straight to optimisation recomme...

Who's Governing Your AI Spend? - The Shadow Cost Growing Faster Than Anyone Expected 20.04.2026 22:04

AI spend in some enterprises has grown between 1,000% and 10,000% in months. But who owns the governance of it? Will Groothedde, Product Manager for AI and Security at Surveil, breaks down why AI costs behave nothing like traditional cloud spend, why most Copilot rollouts are based on guesswork rather than data, and why staff paying for their own unsanctioned AI tools is creating a shadow spend pr...

You Can't Secure What You Can't See: Why Visibility Is the Foundation of Every Cyber Strategy 17.04.2026 17:13

It's the 20% of your environment you can't see that will hurt you. And most enterprises can't see far more than they think. Surveil CISO Laurence Dale shares a real-world story of a threat actor who compromised an admin account and nearly executed a five million pound fraudulent transaction. He explains why privileged identity management is the first place to start, why Microsoft Secure Score is a...

Your Next Microsoft Renewal Is a Transformation Event, Not a Procurement Exercise 16.04.2026 18:27

Microsoft removed volume discounts. E7 launches at $99 per user. EA is being replaced by MCA-E. This isn't a routine renewal. John Smith, VP of Strategic Alliances at Surveil, explains why some enterprises could face 20-40% price increases contract on contract, why the shift to CSP leaves less room to negotiate, and why E7's autonomous AI agents may require the same licensing as human identities....

The Moment You See Everything, Everything Changes 15.04.2026 25:41

Most enterprises don't have a cost problem or a governance problem - they have a visibility problem. Surveil co-founder Harold Groothedde shares what actually happens when enterprises see their environment clearly for the first time - from uncovering millions in hidden licence waste to realising they have thousands more identities than employees. Harold explains the conviction that led him to buil...

Why Every Enterprise Will Have a Chief Cloud Intelligence Officer Within Five Years 14.04.2026 29:36

Cloud financial management is too important for IT and too complex for finance - so who owns it? Surveil CEO Peter Turpin unpacks why enterprises moved trillions into cloud without building the financial intelligence to manage it. He explains why the CFO and CTO disconnect is widening, how AI workloads are breaking traditional governance models, and why he believes a new leadership function - the...