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All right, welcome to this special
live edition of the Cybertraps podcast.

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We are here at the Inch360 event, uh,
here in beautiful Spokane, Washington.

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Uh, and we got John
Hansman on the program.

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Uh, John's the CEO of Truett.

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John, tell us a little bit about
what Truett is and who you are.

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Yeah.

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So, uh, Truett is a
managed service provider.

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So we do everything from
the basic IT services.

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Uh, and provide, uh, that with
the cyber security focus that you,

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uh, not always seen with MSPs.

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Uh, it's becoming more and more prevalent,
but our, our focus as a company is

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to help create a specific action plan
and a, a actual cyber security program

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within our IT infrastructure for

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our clients.

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Yeah, I, I like that.

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I think that's really powerful.

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And if you were listening before when
we talked to Nick Marizzi, he was

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talking about using an MSP when you
don't have the capacity to do that

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yourself and how that's a smart thing
to do because you can use somebody

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else's expertise to, to make those
things easier for you so that you don't

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have to stress about a lot of the cyber
security issues because somebody else

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is stressing about that for you, right?

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Is that

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Well that's it, and I think for us, we
really focus on bridging the gap between

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that large business that is, you know,
they have 100 employees so they need

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internal IT and either helping them
with the security stack side which is a

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possibility or we help them or we help
the smaller businesses who don't have

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anything and they're too small to really
need to have an internal IT department.

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So, our company, we do both.

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We help with co managed solutions, where
large companies say, Hey, we've got a

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really good tech support team, we've got
a good help desk, but we, we're not 100

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percent sure on our, our cyber stack.

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Can you help us?

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Or be available for, you know,
engineering level solutions.

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and then we, we take care of
mostly small businesses, you

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know, 10 employees up to, uh,

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100 employees.

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Gotcha.

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And so what brings you to
a conference like this?

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Well, honestly, it's because, uh,
if I'm in cybersecurity in Spokane,

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I shouldn't be anywhere else.

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Good point.

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And, uh, not only did we say
we're going to attend, but

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we doubled down on sponsored.

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Yeah.

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And, and I'm a panelist, uh, shortly
and so really it was just a matter of

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saying we're, we firmly believe that
all businesses need to be thinking

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forward towards cybersecurity.

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We, we heard it like four times today.

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It's not a matter of if, but
when, uh, so if you're, if you're

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thinking forward, you can have a
plan so that if something happens.

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And so, you know, me, John Hansman is
working hard to become a thought leader

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as well, uh, in the space around the
cities that I work in to help people

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just think about cyber security, uh, help
them understand they need to have a plan.

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And then for some people who
want our help, we help them.

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Make that plan and put it
together and put it into action.

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Yeah,

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that's awesome.

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Um, so what's your
takeaway from today so far?

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I, I think the biggest thing, uh, we, we
just talked about Herb Whitworth's talk.

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they did a lot of things right.

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When you watch the news, you think those
jerks lost a bunch of stuff, right?

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I know, right?

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But when you listen to them talk,
they had a lot of stuff in place.

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And Really they could, they could, they
have done more possibly, but really they

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did a lot and they still got hacked.

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Yeah.

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So And, and I just want to say real
quick, I think the real, uh, clear

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signal that they did a lot of things
right was that they, uh, they got

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hacked and their CIO got promoted.

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Yeah.

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And he, he said that not in a
bragging way, which I thought

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was, was good, but really like
They did a lot of things right.

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And so it seems like it was
not as bad as it could have

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been.

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They really seem like
they took the stress off.

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Like, you know, it's going to be stressed
when you have a cyber attack, right?

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But they knew what their jobs
were ahead of time, which I

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think was a really key thing.

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I think that was the biggest takeaway,
even for me as an MSP going back home

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and, and talking with my staff and saying,
let's make sure all of our cybersecurity,

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uh, plans are ready for all of our
clients, but practice, practice, practice.

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Yeah.

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And just be ready and know that,
that you've got the plan and

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your customer, if you're an MSP,
needs to know that plan, too.

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You need to sit down with them and
say, this is what it looks like.

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Yeah.

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So that they're not in a panic.

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So I thought that was really, it was
fascinating to hear them talk and

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I was looking forward to that part.

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Yeah.

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So, uh, if somebody's listening
and they want to know more about

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Truett, where should they go?

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How should they learn more about

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Truett?

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Yeah, best place to go is Truett.

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io.

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T R U I T.

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io.

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Uh, and you can also look me up,
uh, I'm on every social media

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platform under John Hansman.

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Even johnhansman.

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com will get you my contact

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information.

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There you go.

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Thank you so much, John.

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Appreciate you being here.

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My pleasure.

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And good

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luck on your panel.

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Yeah, thanks.