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The Fall and Rise of the Backup Administrator
Sandro Petrozzioli sits at the escalation point — the call that comes in when the backup server is already toast and the executives are already on the line. In this Data Protection Gumbo conversation, he breaks down why a successful backup gives you a false sense of security, why AI is a multiplier and not a replacement for human judgment in recovery, and why the person once dismissed as "just the backup guy" is now the most important person in the room. We get into the escalation patterns that never make it into the public postmortem, the shift toward hybrid recovery, which workloads actually keep him up at night (SAP HANA and Oracle — not hypervisors), and the one thing he would tell any CISO: trust your people, and rehearse the ransomware fire drill step by step by beautiful step.
Why Your First Cybersecurity Job Might Be the Hardest One You Ever Get
Computer-science degrees are flooding the market while AI quietly hollows out the skills behind them, agentic coding tools are shipping software no human ever reviewed, and Palo Alto Networks' record $25B CyberArk deal is concentrating the entire defense stack onto fewer platforms. In this Data Protection Gumbo practitioner briefing, I break down what The Economist's degree warning, Snyk's agentic-development research, and the industry's biggest-ever acquisition mean for your hiring pipeline, your code, and your blast radius — and the three actions you can take Monday morning.
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The Fall and Rise of the Backup Administrator
Sandro Petrozzioli sits at the escalation point — the call that comes in when the backup server is already toast and the executives are already on the line. In this Data Protection Gumbo conversation, he breaks down why a successful backup gives you a false sense of security, why AI is a multiplier and not a replacement for human judgment in recovery, and why the person once dismissed as "just the backup guy" is now the most important person in the room. We get into the escalation patterns that never make it into the public postmortem, the shift toward hybrid recovery, which workloads actually keep him up at night (SAP HANA and Oracle — not hypervisors), and the one thing he would tell any CISO: trust your people, and rehearse the ransomware fire drill step by step by beautiful step.
Why Your First Cybersecurity Job Might Be the Hardest One You Ever Get
Computer-science degrees are flooding the market while AI quietly hollows out the skills behind them, agentic coding tools are shipping software no human ever reviewed, and Palo Alto Networks' record $25B CyberArk deal is concentrating the entire defense stack onto fewer platforms. In this Data Protection Gumbo practitioner briefing, I break down what The Economist's degree warning, Snyk's agentic-development research, and the industry's biggest-ever acquisition mean for your hiring pipeline, your code, and your blast radius — and the three actions you can take Monday morning.
Ransomware Attacks Reveal a Dangerous New Pattern
275 million student records exposed during finals week, a Linux zero-day with no patches threatening backup infrastructure directly, and a Microsoft Patch Tuesday showing 28% of CVEs are now exploited within 24 hours of disclosure. In this Data Protection Gumbo practitioner briefing, I break down what the Canvas breach, the Dirty Frag Linux zero-day, and AI-assisted attack acceleration mean for your data protection program — and the three actions you can take Monday morning.
Anthropic Built an AI So Dangerous They Refused to Release It. Here's What That Means for You.
Anthropic's Mythos AI found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser — then the company refused to release it to the public. In this Data Protection Gumbo episode, I break down what Anthropic Mythos and Project Glasswing actually mean for your patching strategy, your CVE pipeline, and your enterprise security posture. Most coverage of the Mythos story has focused on the headline shock. Almost none has answered the practitioner question that actually matters: what does an AI capable of finding zero-days at machine speed do to a patch management program built on the assumption that vulnerabilities get discovered, disclosed, and patched on roughly the same human timeline?
Google Cloud Next '26: Your Backup Team Just Lost the Budget War to Your CISO
How one week of industry announcements in Las Vegas confirmed that data protection has permanently moved from the storage stack to the security stack — and what every enterprise needs to do about it now. Google Cloud Next 2026 brought 32,000 enterprise technology buyers to Las Vegas — and every major data protection vendor showed up with the same message: backup is now a security function, not a storage function. The CISO is the new buyer, and the budget is following.
Why AI Fails Without the Right Data (And How to Fix It) - View Systems Inc.
Joel Christner, CEO of View Systems, talks about why so many enterprise AI projects fall flat—despite powerful models and high expectations. The culprit? Bad or disorganized data. Joel explains how fragmented tools, shadow IT, and poor data hygien...
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