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Petri Dish

Russell Smith

Russell Smith hosts Petri Dish, a podcast for Microsoft system engineers and administrators looking to keep up to date with the latest trends in IT.

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23 episodes

  1. Your AI Can Find the CEO’s Salary. Can Your IT Team Stop It? 32:03
  2. Why Email Security Training Alone Won’t Stop Payment Fraud 38:15
  3. Still Fighting Endpoint Fires? How to Scale IT Change Without the Chaos 41:39
  4. Data Sovereignty Isn’t Just About Where Your Data Lives 38:16
  5. How ExtraHop Gives Security Teams the Context AI Attacks Demand 40:59
  6. AI can now fix outages while you sleep. Are enterprises ready? 38:06
  7. AI Is Changing Tech Hiring: How IT Pros Can Still Stand Out 37:44
  8. AI Theatre: Why Enterprise AI Projects Keep Failing 41:14
  9. Why IT Holds the Key to Better Financial Decisions 40:55
  10. AI Agents Are Moving into Windows and IT Needs a Plan 34:27
  11. From NASA to The White House: How WordPress VIP Protects High-Risk, High-Traffic Websites 43:24
  12. Why Hybrid IT Is So Hard — And How SolarWinds Helps Simplify It 42:44
  13. Entra App Owners = Global Admin Power? Audit It with Privileged App Path Auditor 43:59
  14. 90% of AI Token Spend “Goes Nowhere” — What CIOs Must Measure Now 32:41
  15. AI Changed IT Training: It’s About Judgment Now, Not Clicks 41:35
  16. Hybrid Threats and Human Factors: Lessons from the Digital Defense Report 33:38
  17. Agentic AI Is Coming to the Enterprise. But Can We Actually Trust It? 33:42
  18. AI Copilots at Scale: How DDN Powers Fast, Secure Enterprise AI 18:32
  19. What If Governance Wasn’t Overhead BUT Your Strongest Security Control? 49:38
  20. Active Directory Update: RC4 Deprecation, 2025 DC Problems and OU Structure Tips 38:00
  21. How AI Is Changing Remote Desktop Management 32:07
  22. Cayosoft: Unraveling the Future of Active Directory and Entra ID Management 31:10
  23. Cayosoft Guardian Protector Is Changing IAM Security for Everyone. And It's Free! 39:14