A bi-weekly podcast that helps you curb cybersecurity risk and tackle technology challenges
Off the Wire
Claim This Podcastby Anthony Kent & Tanner Greer
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A bi-weekly podcast that helps you curb cybersecurity risk and tackle technology challenges
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9/19/2023
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Recent Episodes
June 15, 2026
Your Headcount Request Isn't a Staffing Problem — It's a Sales Problem
How to Get an IT Headcount Proposal Approved: Speak in Risk, Value, and Data The hosts discuss how IT leaders can successfully propose adding staff when teams are overextended and work keeps piling up. They emphasize starting with the real problem—unmet business value, security/compliance risk, cyber insurance requirements, ticket backlogs, and burnout/retention risk—then backing the request with data such as project lists, vulnerability and compliance gaps, device and ticket growth, peer staffing comparisons, and feedback from other departments. They advise focusing on responsibilities and business impact rather than job titles, researching comparable organizations carefully, and presenting alternatives like contractors, interns, or part-time roles with true fully loaded costs. The conversation also covers delivery tactics: have an in-person sit-down, be confident and prepared, time the meeting well, seed the narrative in advance, rehearse tough questions (including via AI role-play), and keep a tiered fallback plan with follow-ups if the answer is no. 00:00 Intro02:04 Keep the List05:10 Start With the Problem08:00 Do Your Research10:19 Responsibilities Over Titles13:40 Weigh the Alternatives17:16 The Real Cost of a Hire18:24 Delivering the Proposal20:52 Timing the Ask22:20 Plant the Seeds Early25:20 Rehearse It (and Use AI)28:15 Have a Fallback Plan31:53 Final Thoughts33:40 Outro Keywords: IT headcount proposal, how to justify new IT staff, IT staffing business case, getting headcount approved, building a business case for hiring, IT budget proposal, IT leadership, IT management, IT workforce planning, understaffed IT team, IT burnout and retention, cybersecurity staffing, compliance risk, cyber insurance requirements, ticket backlog, fully loaded cost of an employee, contractors vs full-time, presenting to leadership, executive buy-in, electric cooperative IT, utility IT, SMB IT, Off the Wire podcast #ITLeadership #Cybersecurity #ITManagement #ITStaffing #ElectricCooperative #SMBIT #ITStrategy #OffTheWire
June 1, 2026
Hardware Quotes Are Expiring in Hours: What’s Going On?
Why Hardware Prices Are Skyrocketing in 2026 (RAM, SSDs, Servers) — and What You Can Do Hardware budgets are breaking. Quotes that were good for 30 days are now expiring in hours. That $80k workstation quote? It's $160k now. That server quote near $1M? Already $1.3M — and climbing. In this episode, Tanner and Anthony break down what's actually driving the spike in RAM, SSDs, hard drives, servers, and networking gear — and it's not just tariffs. AI data center buildouts are pulling manufacturers toward high-margin HBM memory (roughly 10x the margin of standard DRAM), leaving everything else fighting for supply. With only three major players (Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron) and factory expansions that take 2-3 years, relief isn't coming fast. More importantly — what do you do about it right now? They cover practical steps: faster approval cycles, buying ahead, standardizing hardware, right-sizing, considering refurb and used gear, extended refresh cycles, cloud compute, and leasing. Plus how to brief leadership before the budget conversation catches you off guard. This one's for anyone managing IT budgets at a lean organization — co-op, municipal, small enterprise. The volatility is real and it's not going away anytime soon. 00:00 Truck Price Shock Skit 01:54 Hardware Quotes Going Wild 02:46 Real World Sticker Stories 04:36 Why Memory Costs Surge 07:01 HBM vs DRAM Margins 09:08 Factories Tariffs New Normal 13:44 Beyond RAM Storage Crunch 16:53 Quotes Expire Faster Than Ever 20:23 Practical Ways To Cope 26:36 Refurb Longer Cycles Cloud 32:21 When Relief Might Come 37:01 Wrap Up Lead With Communication Off the Wire is a cybersecurity and IT leadership podcast for practitioners at small-to-medium organizations and electric cooperatives.
May 18, 2026
The SaaSpocalypse: How AI Is Killing (and Reshaping) SaaS Tools
The SaaSpocalypse: How AI Is Killing (and Reshaping) SaaS Tools In this episode of Off The Wire, Anthony and Tanner discuss the “SaaSpocalypse”—how AI is disrupting and potentially replacing many SaaS products—citing examples like Figma being hit after Claude Design launched, reduced need for Canva due to AI tools, and vulnerable niche apps like Grammarly as Copilot and Google tools bake AI directly into core suites. They debate whether AI pricing is currently subsidized, noting high API, hardware, and power costs that could drive subscriptions much higher over time. They explore how AI could become the primary interface layer, reducing the need for traditional web UIs and even replacing documentation platforms by querying SharePoint-backed datasets through an agent. For IT leaders, they recommend evaluating SaaS at renewal time, starting with narrow tools, moving gradually, and prioritizing cost savings while accounting for change management and human behavior. 00:00 SaaSpocalypse Explained 00:14 Figma And Canva Wakeup Call 01:35 SaaS Vendors Racing To Add AI 02:53 Why AI Pricing Will Rise 07:25 Which Tools Are Most Vulnerable 11:20 AI As The New Interface Layer 16:47 Advice For CIOs And IT Leaders 25:10 LinkedIn And The AI Slop Problem 31:00 Final Takeaways And Wrap Up
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