Overview

March 13

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 high-profile cyberattacks have targeted colleges and universities, resulting in data breaches, financial losses, and disruptions to critical operations. This raises a crucial question: What can higher education leaders do to manage cybersecurity chaos effectively?

Join Government Technology, Commvault, and CDW for a live 30-minute webinar tailored for college and university administrators, cybersecurity and IT professionals, and anyone interested in enhancing their understanding of cyber resilience in higher education. This session will delve into key considerations for higher education cyber resilience and provide practical tips on preparing for and mitigating cyberattacks.

Save the Date:

Wednesday, March 13, 2024, at 11 AM PT/ 2 PM ET

You’ll Learn:

Different types of cyberattacks faced by higher education institutions
Steps institutions can take to protect themselves from cyberattacks
How to respond to a cyberattack if one occurs

Speakers

Michael Carroll

Vice President of Sales, America’s SLED, Commvault

Mike has built a career around the fundamental belief that customers are the top priority. His strategy in building teams is to attract the best people and couple them with the correct amount of organizational structure and tools. These customer centric teams have resulted in success in both his customer’s initiatives, and the organizations Mike leads. Mike’s role at Commvault is to lead Commvault’s Go-To-Market in SLED. The team’s charter is to grow Commvault’s market share while focusing on customer challenges and the people and technology required to solve them. Prior to Commvault, Mike spent 10 Years are Dell and 4 years at Cisco in various sales and sales leadership roles. Most recently, Mike led Dell’s Data Protection business for Commercial and Public Sector in the West. Mike leverages his years of experience across the overall IT landscape to provide unique insight and expertise into data protection and recovering from cyber-attacks. As the market continues to shift with various technological advancements, he works to disrupt the status quo by leveraging Commvault’s portfolio to deliver the best business results.

Jeremiah Salzberg

Chief Security Technologist, CDW

Jeremiah Salzberg is a security leader with over 25 years of security leadership experience in the financial, telecommunications, and manufacturing sectors. He has held security positions responsible for engineering and architecture, pen testing and incident response, as well as numerous CISO-level positions. In his role as chief security technologist for CDW, Jeremiah is charged with evaluating current and emerging security technologies to ensure that clients are able to effectively address their cybersecurity challenges, and take a forward-leaning approach to prevention, detection and response. He also engages with CDW clients to discuss their security strategies. • Taught hacking exposed courses at Blackhat and to the NSA • Hunted hackers worldwide for a large financial • Led network pentesting line of service for the top pentesting firm of its day • Reduced agent based computer fraud by 99% for a large money transfer company • Helped obtain PCI certification for large food manufacturing and shipping company • Transformed security as a CSO at a bank taking them from weekly compromises and OCC MRAs to no compromises in 4 years and moved to be a reference bank by the OCC

Steve Towns — Moderator

Director of Content Strategy for the Center for Digital Education

Steve Towns is the Director of Content Strategy for the Center for Digital Education. He leads the creation of research-driven white papers, reports, case studies, and multimedia content on government policy and technology issues. He is the former editor of Government Technology Magazine, a national publication for agency managers and technology professionals in state and local government. He has more than 25 years of experience covering policy and technology in the state and local government market.

Webinar

Chaos Control: Safeguarding Higher Ed from Cybersecurity Threats