Description

Every day, education leaders and IT teams are tired of being asked about the financial impact of a security breach or a ransomware attack on their educational institutions.

Your staff and employees just want access to Internet sites and content they can trust.

Learn how three educational institutions found the best way to protect on-premises and remote end users by deploying cloud security solutions that provide built-in protection from:

•             Ransomware

•             Malware

•             Phishing

•             Command and control callback attacks Cloud security solutions

•             Take minutes to deploy

•             Require no additional hardware or software

•             Block threats early in the kill chain, even before devices connect

We look forward to speaking with you about transforming your Internet access experience by deploying Cisco Umbrella, the first line of defense against Internet threats, and Cloudlock, securing usage of the cloud."

Targeted Audience

Institutional Executives, IT Executives, IT Management, and IT Staff for the following: K-12, Higher-Education, Libraries

Presenters

Nell Feldman, IT Security Manager at Montgomery College

Bryan Myers, Senior Account Manager at Networking For Future, Inc.

Ibrahim Darwish, Cybersecurity Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc

The MEEC AV Agreement provides a large number of vendors, a wider range of products and the services to support the AV needs of the MEEC Membership. The new agreement combines the previous AV hardware and services agreement into one unified agreement.

AV AGREEMENT OVERVIEW WEBINARS - 1/24/19, 10am-11am & 2/14/19, 9am–10am

We will provide an overview of the agreement, how it differs from the last AV agreement and offer time for your questions.

Description

Learn how to leverage Microsoft's Power BI, a tool included in both Option A and B for all MEEC members, to enable anyone in your organization to visualize and analyze data with greater speed, efficiency, and understanding. It connects users to a broad range of live data through easy-to-use dashboards, provides interactive reports, and delivers compelling visualizations that bring data to life.

Power BI is a connector between people and the power of the data that lives in the cloud, your on-premise databases, in Excel spreadsheets or text files.

You don’t have to be a technical expert, data scientist, or statistician to take advantage of the wide variety of intelligence analytical capabilities that we have - statistical analysis, machine learning, building custom application.

Targeted Audience

All K-12 and Higher Ed administrators, educators, data analysts, CIOs.

Presenter

Dustin Ryan, Solution Architect

Description

MEEC Members Don't Have to Go 'IT' Alone

Higher education institutions across the nation are struggling to meet the increasing demand for IT services in the face of budget cuts and talent shortages. When it comes to information technology, the price of ""going it alone"" is becoming ever more costly. As a member of MEEC, you have a unique opportunity to lower costs and increase student success by sharing services with fellow consortia members.

Whether shared services is a brand new concept or you're in the process of considering it, this complimentary webinar will help position your institution for success by teaching you how to:

•          Identify share partners.

•          Increase efficiency, reduce administrative IT costs, and improve service using shared services.

•          Select the right shared services model for your institution.

•          Implement shared services best practices.

•          Avoid common pitfalls.

Targeted Audience

All MEEC Members

Presenter

Liz Murphy, Chief Evangelist, CampusWorks, Inc.

• How to enroll devices – Azure AD joined and Hybrid Domain Joined
• Create policies to secure devices and protect data
• Deploy applications to keep users productive
• Use the Intune Data Warehouse to report on items.

Description

State of Security Overview in Education

Challenges facing Higher Education and K-12(Complexity, Automation, Scalability and Cloud):

• Campus networks have had to keep up with increasing demand for bandwidth, while maintaining high network performance and availability
• Managing and maintaining consistent security on BYOD and School issued devices
• Preventing data breaches and the loss of sensitive information, including financial transactions, personal data and intellectual property, resulting from third-party-funded research.
• Manage disjointed, distributed networks and endpoint security.
• Securing district data centers and cloud resources 
• Protecting a plethora of devices and operating systems
• Enforcing various security policies for students, teachers and administrators across a large or geographically distributed school district.

Solution:

• The Palo Alto Networks security operating platform is built on core security principles. Application and user visibility is provided through our APP-ID and USER-ID capabilities for identity management security. Virtual Segmentation allows us to limit the scope of vulnerability, limit data exfiltration, and limit the scope of compliance. We can protect both North-South via public, private or hybrid cloud, and East- via existing hardware and virtual machines. Advanced and Zero Day Attack prevention and remediation is provided down to the endpoints via our platform approach that is powered through our threat intelligence engine. Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform provides Higher Education and K-12 institutions around the world with coordinated, highly effective, and easily administered threat prevention, protecting sensitive data and ensuring regulatory compliance while maintaining high network performance.

Agenda

8am-9am Registration

9am-9:15am- Welcome- Daly Computers

9:15am- 10:15am State of Security Overview in Education

10:15am-11am Break

11am-12pm- Palo Alto Platform Overview

12pm- 1pm  Lunch

1pm-2pm Traps Overview-

Targeted Audience

All MEEC members

Presenters

Jason Keller, Named Account Manager – Palo Alto Networks

Paul Hill, Systems Engineer, Daly Computers, Inc.