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BTR: Tabletop Theater and the "Skeleton Key" Scare

BTR: Tabletop Theater and the "Skeleton Key" Scare

Robb Boyd goes behind the scenes of WWT's Cyber Resilience show. Featuring former NSA Director Rob Joyce and WWT’s Madison Horn, the episode explores why organizations are "resilient on paper, but fragile in practice" and the looming threat of the Quantum "Skeleton Key".

Behind the Research: Why are you in the Cloud?

Behind the Research: Why are you in the Cloud?

We were 20 minutes into the recording when Jeff's video started breaking up. But we couldn't stop—we were finally getting somewhere. After three attempts, we'd cracked what Priority Four was really about: not infrastructure planning, but one question most organizations can't answer.

Behind the Research: The Cloud Governance Hamster Wheel

Behind the Research: The Cloud Governance Hamster Wheel

Companies think they're more mature than they are. They have governance, committees, FinOps. Dig one level deeper: no tagging strategy, no chargeback, no way to trace spend. The problem isn't tools or data—it's organizational structure with actual authority.

Behind the Research: Software Spend Management

Behind the Research: Software Spend Management

80% of your budget goes to 20% of your vendors—the ones you manage obsessively. Then there's the long tail: hundreds of smaller subscriptions nobody's tracking. Sound familiar? Your procurement team isn't failing. They're drowning in the obvious while the less obvious compounds.