Sharing data in the cloud offers a huge advantage for educators to easily offer faculty and students the ability to work and study wherever they are. It also helps the IT Operations team to simplify management and costs for infrastructure, data storage, and data protection. But you may have questions as you determine your cloud strategy. How secure is the cloud? Is all your data automatically protected in the cloud? What happens when ransomwar...

Data conversion is vital to the successful deployment of Workday Student, yet it is often one of the biggest sources of project churn. Most higher education institutions have legacy data in a variety of unique sources and formats, and much of that data will need to be imported to Workday-specific templates that often require complex, non-traditional manipulation and formatting to be loaded into Workday. Attendees joined this session, hosted by...

The federal government’s emphasis on cybersecurity for all agencies has had a dizzying effect on the regulatory environment. Agencies must address Executive Order 14028, mandating a zero trust architecture by September 2024. To get there, they must navigate through the General Services Administration’s approved cloud offerings in the Federal Risk And Management Program (FedRAMP). Then there are the National Institute of Standards a...

You and your Higher Ed team are invited for a webinar: Cloud Success for Higher Ed Institutions with HashiCorp Vault. On October 18th, Higher Ed institution professionals and industry experts host a webinar to discuss how HashiCorp Vault can update your cloud operating model and deliver new value to your students and faculty. Register now for insights on: Accelerating transitions: Education institutions must accelerate transitions to the cloud...

Ever since the dawn of the internet, its usefulness lies in the data it handles, whether moving it, storing it, or calculating with it. As a result, just as Willie Horton once said he robbed banks because “that’s where the money is,” many of today’s cyber bad actors target agencies’ data because they can monetize it. As a result, cybersecurity is akin to the 20th century Cold War. On the one hand, bad actors ...