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The ITPro Podcast

The ITPro Podcast is a weekly show for technology professionals and business leaders. Each week hosts Rory Bathgate and Jane McCallion are joined by an expert guest to take a deep dive into the most important issues for the IT community. New episodes premiere every Friday. Visit itpro.com/uk/the-it-pro-podcast for more information, or follow ITPro on LinkedIn for regular updates.

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24:23

Tomorrow's fraud techniques

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/03/13

Fraud has evolved leaps and bounds in the past few years, with new technology and more digitally-native businesses than ever providing the ideal attack surface for fraudsters. As attackers look to lure in business professionals with new tech such as deepfakes and AI scams, enterprise cybersecurity teams and cybersecurity vendors are faced with the task of combatting cyber fraud more effectively.How can we combat this new frontier of cyber fraud?In this episode, Jane is joined by Paul Weathersby,

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32:40

Will AI hiring entrench gender bias?

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/03/06

Women are still greatly underrepresented in STEM. The latest figures from the Women Tech Network show women only make up around 26-27% of the STEM workforce and the organization estimates that at the current rate of change, it will be nearly 123 years before the economic gender gap is closed.It’s International Women’s Day 2026 – and the rate of women hired in tech continues to lag far behind that of men. As hiring teams turn to AI tools to automatically field candidates, we’re at something of a

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22:25

February rundown: SaaS-pocalypse now?

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/02/27

February is the shortest month, but you wouldn’t know it from the sheer amount of news that’s broken in just the past 26 days.Amid growing fears of AI stealing jobs, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has claimed that firms are simply using the technology as an excuse for mass layoffs. Earlier this month, a series of Anthropic releases drove stocks down at a range of companies – all tied to fears that the SaaS model might be on its way out.Also this month, Pure Storage has rebranded as Everpure – what’s behind

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21:20

Going all-in on digital sovereignty

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/02/20

Digital sovereignty has quietly become one of the most urgent requirements in the tech sector. Once a matter for policy debate, this is now a critical business issue and as much a matter of resilience as one of compliance.Indeed while we’ve spoken about the need for digital sovereignty before, recent geopolitical developments have cast the debate in far starker light. With European governments and businesses leaning heavily into digital sovereignty, it’s clear there’s an emerging race to secure

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33:18

SPECIAL EDITION: Redefining risk management

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/02/18

Risk management is a constant point of concern in the modern enterprise, with cybersecurity threats, compliance pressures, and financial leaps of faith all piling pressure on the teams who are forced to manage them. But risk management can’t always be about bailing out the sinking ship. Sooner or later, businesses need to integrate their risk management systems and connect teams together via a centralized framework.What are the benefits of overhauling risk management in this manner? And how can it

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42:46

Classic episode: We need to talk about operational...

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/02/13

This episode was first published on 18 July 2025.Cyber attacks can feel a layer detached from the real world. Yes, businesses frequently see IP stolen, get frozen out of systems, or have data wiped by malicious actors. But if you haven’t got your finger on the pulse, cyber attacks can also fail to register in your day to day.But there are instances where cyber attacks come crashing into the lives of everyday people, and become impossible to ignore: when attackers go after critical infrastructure and

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29:21

The agentic identity crisis

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/02/06

Identity controls in the enterprise have only become more complicated over the last few years. Initially, the focus was on IoT devices, which were exploding in the enterprise environment. But recent years have brought an onslaught of AI tools and AI agents, all of which come with security and governance complications. How can business leaders get a grip on the adoption of AI agents, particularly as these tools begin to communicate with one another and with third-party enterprise tools? In this

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15:19

January rundown: Amazon layoffs and the return of XPS

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/01/30

January is supposed to be a month full of new starts and potential, in which we try to embrace resolutions or set out our plans for the year ahead.But in the tech sector, it’s become something of an ominous month – the start of layoff season. January 2026 has been no different, with Amazon announcing 16,000 jobs cut in a plan that could see up to 30,000 cut by the end of May according to Reuters.Earlier in the month, Dell made waves at CES 2026 with the news that it’s reviving the XPS laptop line,

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25:02

Building a secure payments strategy

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/01/28

Every business wants its payments to process smoothly. Simply put, if you’re introducing friction into your payment processes, you’re making it harder to drive revenue and dissuading users from becoming return customers.One sector that knows this better than most is iGaming, which has to meet the demands of users around the world including mobile payments, virtual wallets, and cross-border social gaming payouts.Delivering all this in near real-time, with adequate security and reliable

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16:00

SPECIAL EDITION: Mitigating bad bots

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/01/26

One of the major challenges of today’s environments is the rising tide of bots, with generative AI driving a new era of the technology.Bots have been a part of the internet since at least the 1990s but recent technological advancements have swollen their number exponentially. Some of these net dwellers are benign, others are malicious, and some sit somewhere in between. But no matter what category they fall into, they can all cause problems for businesses. How much of an issue is this for businesses

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32:39

Are hyperscalers backing out of Net Zero?

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/01/23

The environmental impact of AI is a growing area of study and one that businesses must begin to seriously consider.When you power a data center with coal, it’s obvious that it’s having a detrimental impact on the environment. But is a ‘green’ data center really green? And to what extent might the benefits of AI outweigh potential environmental negatives?In this episode, Jane and Rory discuss the shifting sustainability targets of the world’s public cloud giants, as caused by AI, and what they’re

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14:20

CES 2026: All in on AI hardware?

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/01/16

The tech sector started this year with a bang at CES 2026, the annual event that brings together over 140,000 attendees to share the latest innovations in consumer and business technology.Unsurprisingly, at this year’s event AI was a primary focus – with more details on Nvidia and AMD’s latest hardware, alongside AI PC innovations by brands like Lenovo. Alongside these headlines, however, we also saw a return to form by companies such as Dell, with the resurrection of the XPS laptop range.What did

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32:35

Are AI cyber threats overhyped?

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/01/09

We’re just over a week into 2026 but already, enterprise cybersecurity teams will be hard at work repelling attacks – and business leaders will be worrying about the year ahead.On the one hand, we’re told that AI tools are beginning to empower security teams to go further and faster. On the other, the use of AI by hackers to launch attacks also appears to be on the rise.All of this is happening against a backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions and continual attacks by state-sponsored hacking groups

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29:11

The trends we're watching in 2026

The ITPro Podcast ·

2026/01/02

2025 has almost come to a close and the new year is right around the corner.At this time of year, it’s usual to reflect on the year and consider some of the biggest, most impactful things that have happened. But here at ITPro, we like to take a different approach: what didn’t happen?The tech industry can’t help but make bold promises and some just don’t pan out. What are some of the biggest targets, trends, and predictions that just haven’t come to fruition in 2025?In this episode, Jane and Rory are

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43:38

The 2025 that didn't happen

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/12/26

2025 has almost come to a close and the new year is right around the corner.At this time of year, it’s usual to reflect on the year and consider some of the biggest, most impactful things that have happened. But here at ITPro, we like to take a different approach: what didn’t happen?The tech industry can’t help but make bold promises and some just don’t pan out. What are some of the biggest targets, trends, and predictions that just haven’t come to fruition in 2025?In this episode, Jane and Rory are

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22:46

The future of threat detection

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/12/19

Cybersecurity teams are facing a double edged sword of challenges and opportunities. On the one hand, AI tools offer a great deal of autonomous working and the promise of automating some of the more laborious tasks that a cybersecurity team has to undertake.On the other hand, attackers are also using AI to launch large scale attacks such as sophisticated phishing campaigns and identity theft. To fight this threat, cybersecurity teams will need to unify data like never before and take advantage of as

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29:20

TPUs: Google's home advantage

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/12/12

In the race to train and deploy generative AI models, companies have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into GPUs, chips that have become essential for the parallel processing needs of large language models.Nvidia alone has forecast $500 billion in sales across 2025 and 2026, driven largely by Jensen Huang, founder and CEO at Nvidia, recently stated that “inference has become the most compute-intensive phase of AI — demanding real-time reasoning at planetary scale”.Google is meeting these

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19:42

On the ground at HPE Discover Barcelona 2025

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/12/05

HPE Discover Barcelona 2025 was in full swing this past week, with thousands of attendees descending on the Fira Barcelona to hear the latest news on the networking, servers, storage, supercomputing – and, of course, AI.It’s a pivotal time for the firm, as it consolidates its hardware partnerships and heralds a recent acquisition, while laying out its strategy to help customers not only meet demand, but expand their networks and adopt new technologies.What are some of the biggest things HPE

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19:36

November rundown: CrowdStrike's insider threat

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/11/28

As a business leader, you’d like to believe that your staff are entirely trustworthy. Effective enterprises run on workforce confidence – but in some cases, that trust can be misplaced.In November, CrowdStrike admitted one of its own employees had provided screenshots of internal systems to hackers in exchange for a sizable payout. Industry experts have told ITPro the incident should act as a wake up call to the all-too-serious risk of insider threats.Earlier in the month, websites all over the

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23:20

Why do AI projects fail?

The ITPro Podcast ·

2025/11/21

It seems that everywhere you look these days, businesses are implementing AI features, tools, chatbots, and pilots. But researchers keep coming to the same conclusion about the benefits of enterprise AI adoption – that return on investment is slim to none.While this isn’t the case for every business, it’s certainly a worry that hangs over discussions of the technology. The secret to making AI projects succeed is knowledge that every leader is after right now – and knowing what not to do is just as

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