Off the Stack

Off the Stack is the podcast where technology leaders get real about what actually matters to small businesses. Host Marc Umstead, founder of Plus 1 Technology, sits down with CIOs, cybersecurity experts, AI practitioners, and founders to break down the tech decisions small business owners face every day. No vendor pitches. No jargon. Just straight answers on the stuff that keeps you up at night: cybersecurity threats, AI adoption, compliance, hiring IT help, cloud costs, and where to spend your next technology dollar.

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  You're Probably Paying for Security You Never Turned On | Kevin & Jordan Stock

  Aug 20, 202624 minS0

  <p>Most small businesses treat IT like something you deal with once it breaks. Kevin and Jordan Stock think you should be setting it up the same week you call the power company.</p><p><br></p><p>Kevin and Jordan run RCR Technology Group, a fast-growing MSP in Findlay, Ohio, working with insurance agencies, financial institutions, and small municipalities. They sat down with Marc Umstead to talk about what actually goes wrong as a business grows past 10, 25, and 50 employees. The admin passwords that only live in one person's head. The zero trust policies your longest-tenured employees hate. The client...

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  Is Your Team Secretly Feeding Company Data to AI?

  Jul 30, 202611 minS0

  <p>If you have 20 employees, 17 of them are probably already pasting company data into AI tools. And you don't know it.</p><p>Marc sits down with Matt Hutter of Iconium Networks, an MSP serving accounting firms, law firms, manufacturers, and nonprofits in Northeast Ohio for nearly 20 years. What starts as a conversation about where accounting firm technology is headed turns into a warning every small business owner needs to hear about ungoverned AI use, remote hiring blind spots, and the assumptions that get companies burned.</p><p>Matt shares the story of a remote hire whose "slow computer" turned...

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  The Most Preventable IT Disaster? A Bad Contract

  Jul 24, 202621 minS0

  <p>Every business owner has a vendor horror story. The slow callbacks, the surprise invoices, the multi-year contract you can't get out of.</p><p>In this episode of Off the Stack, Marc Umstead sits down with Benji Sawyer of Sawyer Solutions to talk about the most preventable IT disaster there is: signing a bad contract with the wrong provider. Benji shares the one whose stated goal was to lock clients in and do as little as possible without getting sued, and how to make sure you never end up there.</p><p>They get into how to vet an...

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  Your IT Provider Says You're Covered. Are You?

  Jul 15, 202621 minS0

  <p><br></p><p>Your IT provider says the backups are running, the patches are current, and you're compliant. How do you know?</p><p>Marc sits down with Mark Balovnev, CEO of Cyrisma, a cyber risk and compliance platform used by thousands of MSPs, to talk about the question most business owners never ask: who's verifying the work? Mark has a rare vantage point. His platform is the tool many IT providers use to prove what they're doing, which means he's seen what happens when nobody checks.</p><p>They get into why compliance matters even when no regulator...

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