Best Advice, Thoughts And Predictions In 2024 From Midmarket IT Leaders

MES Computing’s interviews with midmarket IT leaders made for some of our most compelling content this year.

This year ushered in MES Computing’s digital content platform. From covering MES’ events to the most significant news stories and vendor announcements that are of importance to midmarket IT leaders, we had a year filled with content.

One of the content highlights was the interviews held with IT leaders: CIOs, CISOs, vice presidents of IT and more. The interviewees were candid about their career journeys as IT leaders and also offered some great advice for their peers.

MES Computing rounded up 10 of the most compelling interviews that also offered great insight for other IT executives.

The Best Advice In 2024 From Midmarket IT Leaders

The 21st Century CISO Has Evolved: More Power Now Means More Responsibility

CISOs now have a seat at the boardroom table. With that comes myriad new responsibilities and new challenges. CISOs who have made the journey from technician to full-fledged executive share their advice such as, “You shouldn't be a CISO if you aren't expected that going forward in the future, you are going to need to be engaged and actively interacting with customers,” from Dan Creed, Allegiant Air’s CISO. Read the entire article here.

Midmarket CISO In Inductive Automation: 'Here's Why We Chose 1Password'

Jason Waits, CISO of Inductive Automation, shared very specific reasons why his company decided to go with 1Password for its business password management needs including the solution’s ability to allow them to “share passwords easily” in a sandboxed testing environment.

Midmarket IT Exec Shares His Secrets For Business Hyper Growth

This vice president of IT said that shifting focus to data was one key to igniting hyper growth in his company. Here’s more of his sagacious advice.

How IT Leaders View Their Roles In 2024 And Beyond

Vennard Wright, the CEO and founder of PerVista, an AI-powered platform that analyzes real-time video feeds and senses possible threats, was one of the IT leaders interviewed. His goal as a CIO and now CEO: “I want to make sure that we’re not just using technology for technology’s sake, but really using technology to move organizations forward,” he said. You can read more of his interview and other midmarket IT leaders’ insight here.

How IT Leaders Can Outsource Their Way To Business Success

A vice president of IT shared his experience on how IT leaders must work with solution providers as if they were an extension of their internal teams.

A CIO's 20-Year Journey Of Success Amid Painful Loss

Jay Ferro has experienced a lot. Not only has he been an IT leader across midmarket and Fortune 500 companies in various industries, but he’s also a widower who lost his beloved wife to cervical cancer. He shared his story on thriving amid grief.

Tackling Tech Debt: Advice For Midmarket IT Leaders

Technical debt is a potential headwind that many IT leaders must navigate no matter the size of their organization. Several IT leaders spoke with MES Computing about their challenges with tech debt and their plans to overcome it. “We started by meeting with business stakeholders to identify the high-value areas where tech debt was creating friction,” one IT executive said. Read more here.

CISO Details How This Solution Helps His Team With Security Alert Fatigue

A CISO MES Computing spoke with implemented a solution that he says helps with security alert fatigue and frees up his team to deal with the most serious threats to their business.

Q&A With A CISO: What Keeps Security Leaders Up At Night

Myke Lyons is the CISO of data infrastructure company Cribl. With more than 20 years of experience in the industry, Lyons has led security strategies and teams at companies including ServiceNow, Snyk and Collibra. In this interview with MES Computing, Lyons emphasized the importance of speaking with executive leadership and board members in keeping an organization secure and also offered other great advice.

Midmarket, Other IT Leaders Share Predictions, Hopes, And Foreseeable Challenges In 2025

IT leaders expressed their thoughts on their biggest challenges in 2024 and what they see on the horizon for tech trends that may be consequential for their organizations in 2025.