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S1E12 ITOops
In the spine-tingling finale of IT Horror Stories, host Jonathan Crowe is joined by a fearless lineup of IT veterans who have stared into the digital void and lived to tell the tale. Guests Kallum…
S1E11 Human Error
IT isn’t just wires and widgets. It’s a minefield of lurking disasters waiting to strike. Few know that better than Mark Settle, 7-time CIO and author, who’s survived more operational horrors than…
S1E10 Bitcoin and Brown Paper Bags
Negotiating with cybercriminals is no walk in the park. Shelley Ma, incident response lead for Coalition Incident Response, highlights the human element of cybersecurity: dealing with both clients in…
S1E9 The Nightmare Phone Call
Things are bound to go sideways in the world of IT and security, but there are certain three-letter government organizations that you never want to hear from. In this episode, long-time security…
S1E8 Point of No Rollback
When a huge cloud platform migration stalls out mid-flight with no hope of changing course, panic lunges to take the wheel. In this episode, Mahesh Guruswamy, CPTO at Kickstarter and author of How to…
S1E7 Crisis Clarity
When blueprints start to smolder, true leaders draft new ones on the fly. In this episode, former architect turned Wawa CIO & SVP John Collier reveals how his background in design thinking has…
S1E6 POS SOS
In this episode, Wyatt Hansen, Vice President of Information Technology Services at LeaderOne Financial, sits down with host Jonathan Crowe to discuss an IT horror story that he experienced early on…
S1E5 Confessions of an Adversary
In this episode, Dr. Chase Cunningham, aka DrZeroTrust, joins us to shed light on what a horror story looks like from an adversarial perspective. In drawing on his extensive red teaming and NSA…
S1E4 Last Out
When COVID lockdowns loom in early 2020, it’s up to Matthews team to prepare hundreds of laptops for an employee base that’s about to start working from home.Matthew Schuster, Information Security…
S1E3 No Longer a Drill
In this episode, Mike Anderson, CIO & CDO at Netskope, joins Jonathan to discuss several IT horror stories that have stuck with him throughout his career – including a fire suppression test gone…
S1E2 Dead in the Water
When a corrupted virus definition file was distributed by a centralized management server, it was up to Jay Abbott to find a fix for the company-wide blue screen of death. Jay describes how the…
S1E1 Hurricanes and Diesel Fuel
Nick Colisto, CIO of Avery-Dennison, describes the IT disaster he faced during Hurricane Sandy. When the storm caused a major power outage and a fuel shortage, his company’s primary data center had…
S1 Trailer
IT problems are a nightmare. And you’re not alone in losing sleep over them.If you’ve worked in IT, you’ve probably got a few ghost stories. This show is dedicated to those stories and the IT heroes…
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IT Horror Stories has published 13 episodes since February 2025, covering topics in Business, Technology.
IT Horror Stories is currently dormant with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 33m.
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