Wake Up by Veeam

Knowing where your data is stored is not the same as knowing where your data is safe. In this episode of Wake Up, the podcast by Veeam, host Rick Vanover speaks with Jan De Clercq, CTO for Cyber Services at HPE, about why data sovereignty is far more complex than most organizations realize — and why the basics of cyber resilience still trip up even the most sophisticated enterprises. Together they...

The time to discover your blind spots is not in the middle of an incident. In this episode of Wake Up, the podcast by Veeam, host Rick Vanover speaks with Rick Orloff, VP and CISO at Everpure, about what it really means to run security as a business enabler — and why the organizations that get it right move faster, not slower. Together they explore why ROT data is a hidden risk most companies igno...

Guardrails don't slow innovation down. They keep it from blowing up. In this episode of Wake Up, the podcast by Veeam, host Rick Vanover sits down with Emilee Tellez, Field CTO at Veeam, for a candid look at what organizations are getting right — and dangerously wrong — as they race to deploy AI at scale. Together they explore why explainability is the foundation of AI trust, what three very diffe...

Good data leads to good insights. Bad data just leads to more bad data. In this episode of Wake Up, the podcast by Veeam, host Rick Vanover sits down with Zeus Kerravala, independent analyst and former CIO, for a candid conversation about why data quality is the real barrier to AI success — and why the organizations that figure that out first will win. Together they explore why trust is becoming t...

Identity creates structure. But structure shouldn't be confused with certainty. In this episode of Wake Up, the podcast by Veeam, host Rick Vanover speaks with Greg Wetmore, Head of Product Development for Digital Security at Entrust, about why non-human identities have quietly become one of the biggest blind spots in enterprise security — and what organizations need to do before that catches up w...

Knowing you have backups is not the same as knowing you can recover. In this episode of Wake Up, the podcast by Veeam, host Rick Vanover speaks with Allen Downs, Vice President of Incident Recovery at Kyndryl, about what organizations get dangerously wrong when it comes to resilience — and what it takes to truly be ready when everything goes down. Together they explore why visibility and accountab...

Autonomy without trust is exposure. In this episode of Wake Up, the podcast by Veeam, host Rick Vanover speaks with Avinash Ramesh, Managing Director of Secure AI and Data Protection at Accenture, about what it really takes to scale AI responsibly — and why most organizations are moving faster than their foundations can support. Together they explore why AI doesn't create new weaknesses but amplif...

When AI unlocks the power of healthcare data, it also unlocks the risk. In this episode of Wake Up, the podcast by Veeam, host Rick Vanover speaks with David Houlding, Director of Global Healthcare Security and Compliance at Microsoft, about what it takes to keep patient data trusted, governed, and protected in an era of agentic AI and expanding attack surfaces. Together they explore why data gove...

What if the next cyberattack doesn’t start with code but with a conversation? They look nothing like the villains you imagine. From scattered collectives of teenagers to AI‑powered deepfakes, the battlefield has shifted, and Veeam Field CISO Ray Heffer has watched it happen in real time. In this episode of  Wake Up , global data resilience expert Caroline Wong talks with Ray about the psychol...

What happens when one security leader is responsible for protecting the nation’s largest healthcare payer — and the stakes include 130 million Americans? In this episode of  Wake Up , global data resilience expert Caroline Wong sits down with Robert Wood, former CISO of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), to talk about leading security at scale, managing complex contractor...

It starts with a simple question. What happens when cybersecurity isn’t someone’s full‑time job? In this episode of Wake Up , global data resilience expert Caroline Wong talks with security leader Tim Silverline about the unique pressures of being a fractional CISO — balancing multiple organizations, driving accountability, and leading through the moments when advice isn’t followed and risk become...

When a cyber incident strikes, the technical response is only half the story. In this episode of Wake Up, the Podcast by Veeam, host Caroline Wong speaks with Vanessa Pegueros, a seasoned CISO who reveals what it feels like to lead through chaos, exhaustion, and organizational shock. Together they unpack the emotional toll of incident response, the importance of calm leadership, and why resil...

Even the best defenses can be tested. In this episode of Wake Up, the podcast by Veeam, Caroline Wong and Michael Irwin unpack how one organization faced a nation-state cyberattack and what it revealed about leadership under pressure. Through real-world lessons in containment, communication, and recovery, they explore how data resilience is not only a technical goal but a culture of readiness that...