K-12 institutions are focused on providing continuous, safe, and secure learning environments for students and staff. Despite being resource constrained, school districts must adhere to fundamental cybersecurity practices such as FERPA compliance and ransomware prevention. Join us to learn about the top cybersecurity best practices for K-12 school districts and how Palo Alto Networks approaches these in order to safeguard people and data. In...

State and local governments, K-12 districts, and higher education institutions face two kinds of threats: (1) Trusted Insider threats and (2) ‘Virtual’ Trusted Insider threats. Trusted Insider threats are rogue employees using authorized access to do unauthorized acts. This can include theft of data and services, fraud, or even system destruction or theft of IP and trade secrets. Virtual trusted insider threats happen when an emplo...

Equitable access and student success are more critical than ever, especially as the higher education landscape faces unprecedented headwinds. At the same time as student expectations continue to evolve in a digital world, higher education’s aging infrastructure, workforce challenges, and organizational structures create challenges for understanding student needs—and providing the right tools at the right time to help them on their...

Join us for an educational webinar on April 14, 2023, at 10 a.m. Pacific Time/1 p.m. Eastern Time to discover the power of AI in K-12 and higher education with ChatGPT Unleashed. As a groundbreaking AI technology, ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize the way students learn and interact with educational resources. During this webinar, you will: Learn about the fundamentals of generative AI and how ChatGPT works in an educational setting D...

Today's higher education institutions are facing greater financial risk due to an increase in both internal and external fraud. While some institutions are using traditional security tools to detect certain types of fraud, the vast increase in the types of fraud requires a different approach to build out a comprehensive approach to detect a greater number of threats. Splunk takes a different approach in that we not only focus on the detection...

Schools educate our nation's future so school administrators must navigate numerous challenges outside their control. With a reported 67 million malware attacks against education institutions during a typical 30-day stretch*, one major challenge is that K-12 institutions easy targets for cybersecurity attacks. These attacks have risen since the Covid-19 pandemic forced remote learning, and a new form of highly evasive adaptive threats (HEAT) u...

State and local government agencies and universities and other academic institutions storing their mission-critical and sensitive data in Salesforce. However, many organizations are doing so without a proper understanding of risks and vulnerabilities, nor with the visibility and oversight needed from InfoSec and Compliance teams. The Security Risk Assessments (SRAs) inform OwnBackup's annual Salesforce Data Risk Report that have helped some of...

Did you know that DocuSign’s APIs and SDKs allow you unlimited options for leveraging the DocuSign platform? University of Maryland Baltimore County is pushing the envelope (pun intended!) by leveraging DocuSign’s powerful APIs for integrations with Box, ImageNow, Peoplesoft, Data Warehouse, and other systems. Join us to learn How the University of Maryland Baltimore County is leveraging DocuSign APIs today for integrations with m...

Over the past decade, colleges and universities in the United States have seen a steady decline in enrollment, and that trend is not expected to reverse any time in the near future. Stretching across various functions from marketing, admissions, financial aid, and institutional research, the need for gathering deeper insights from data and having a strategic enrollment plan has never been greater. Join Alteryx and HAI Analytics as they review...

As higher education institutions continue their work to fully realize the value of institutional data, cloud-based data platforms provide a new opportunity to address the ever-present challenges associated with traditional, legacy data systems found on many campuses. Having a unified cloud data architecture that combines intelligent, automated cloud data management and a data platform that can scale and run on any cloud is the key to driving t...