The SGMP National Education Conference (NEC) is an annual event featuring over 20 hours of professional development sessions, exciting keynote speakers, an industry tradeshow, networking opportunities, a fundraising silent auction, and more! Please see our website to view the agenda! The 2024 National Education Conference (NEC) will take place on May 7 – 9, 2024 at the Hilton Omaha and CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Our theme is ...

Gain insight into why today's higher education institutions are increasingly migrating their SIS, LMS, and other applications to SaaS providers. With that migration, schools are finding out that while they are benefiting from outsourcing the management of those applications, they, in fact, are losing critical visibility to that application regarding uptime and potential outages. Learning these critical systems down from your help desk is never...

Ransomware thrives in chaos, particularly in unmonitored security gaps that often exist between front-end and back-end cyber defenses. Unfortunately, higher education institutions are susceptible to these cybersecurity vulnerabilities, leaving them scrambling for different tools and solutions to protect themselves and the data of their students, staff and faculty. Cybercriminals show no sign of relenting – in the past year alone, several...

Educational institutions and state and local agencies historically have been challenged to keep up with technological advancements – their budgets are tight, their users are increasingly distributed post-pandemic, and they face significant operating expenses from maintaining legacy architectures and equipment. Digital transformation is appealing, but for many organizations the challenge is where to start. As the generation of data has ex...

Considering EW as one’s academic field can - and in the presenter's experience does - lead to questions related to one’s sanity, this webinar will argue that EW is actually an excellent vehicle for research, and especially, teaching - the traditional tasks of academia. There is a surprisingly large number of publications on EW topics in the open literature. Some examples of such topics will be considered, along with some interestin...

State and local governments and education produce large amounts of unstructured data in a wide range of data types. From student report cards that contain personally identifiable information (PII) to municipal tax rolls full of information that fraudsters want to steal, these organizations have a data protection challenge on their hands. Keeping these diverse data sets safe and ensuring their high availability are essential for smooth educatio...

Cybersecurity professionals working for state and local agencies and educational systems are likely already aware that cyber attacks targeting their organizations are increasing sharply – the second quarter of 2023 saw a 40% increase over the first quarter of the year. System defenders face the ongoing challenges of resource constraints, increasingly complex networks, and data overload. Add in emerging cyber threats from the accelerating...

Recent headlines have been full of stories about state and local governments and school systems being targeted by malicious actors. And these organizations are likely to face tight budgets and limited manpower to deal with a cyber threat. For many agencies, the reality is it’s a matter of when – not if – they will be attacked. There are steps that can be taken to be better prepared to cope with the arduous task of recovery, m...

Specifically tailored to the needs of higher education institutions evaluating P3s, the P3 Higher Education Summit focuses on tools available to campus planners as they plan and procure student housing, classrooms, laboratories, parking, stadium and sport facilities, and energy projects. The program showcases upcoming projects and RFP opportunities, while also presenting best practices in traditional and alternative project delivery. The Summi...

Join the K12 Security Information eXchange (K12 SIX) and iboss for an informational webinar on the features and benefits of implementing an E-Rate eligible Firewall-As-A-Service (FWaaS). The iboss Zero Trust Edge (ZTE) FWaaS platform can help you protect your students and data from cyber-attacks. It includes a wide range of advanced features, such as: Advanced threat protection (ATP) Cloud app firewall and monitoring Intrusion prevention syste...