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If you’ve worked in IT, you’ve probably got a few good ghost stories. This show is dedicated to those stories and the IT heroes who survived to tell the tale. Join some of the world’s top IT leaders as they recount the most harrowing experiences of their careers. They’ll share how they found themselves in hot water, managed to escape disaster, and their best advice for making sure you don’t end up in the sequel. This is IT Horror Stories, where the call is coming from inside the office. Brought to you by NinjaOne, the leader in automated endpoint management.
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Signup to Generate a PitchIf you’ve worked in IT, you’ve probably got a few good ghost stories. This show is dedicated to those stories and the IT heroes who survived to tell the tale. Join some of the world’s top IT leaders as they recount the most harrowing experiences of their careers.
IT Horror Stories is hosted by NinjaOne. The show has published 13 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "ITOops" (5 August 2025, 42 minutes), "Human Error" (22 July 2025, 38 minutes), and "Bitcoin and Brown Paper Bags" (8 July 2025, 34 minutes).
IT Horror Stories publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 13 episodes.
Booking probability for IT Horror Stories is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. IT Horror Stories requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. IT Horror Stories's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for IT Horror Stories are IT Services & Software Development. IT Horror Stories has a technology audience.
NinjaOne hosts IT Horror Stories, a technology podcast with 13 episodes published.
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Episode #12
<p>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 Kyle, Senior...
Episode #11
<p>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 most dare...
Episode #10
<p>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 crisis and the...
Episode #9
<p>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 veteran and Chief...
Episode #8
<p>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 Deliver Bad News...
Episode #7
<p>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 helped him make...
Episode #6
<p>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 in his career...
Episode #5
<p>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 background, he...
Episode #4
<p>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.</p><p>Matthew Schuster, Information Security Analyst at a...
Episode #3
<p>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 wrong, how he helped...
Episode #2
<p>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 emergency escalated...
Episode #1
<p>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 to rely on...
Episode #0
<p>IT problems are a nightmare. And you’re not alone in losing sleep over them.</p><p>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 who...
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