Overview

September 24
11AM PT, 2PM ET

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Colleges and universities must protect open networks, unmanaged devices, sensitive student information, valuable research, and critical digital services. Yet many campus security teams begin each day facing hundreds — or thousands — of alerts spread across disconnected security tools. Analysts spend valuable time gathering evidence and reconstructing incidents while attackers are already moving through the environment.

The answer to these challenges lies in an agentic security operations center (SOC), which creates a fundamentally different operating model for higher education cybersecurity. AI agents can gather evidence, correlate signals, reconstruct attack timelines, prioritize threats and recommend response actions — turning fragmented alerts into evidence-backed cases ready for analyst judgment.

Join us to learn more about how agentic SOCs are transforming higher education cybersecurity. We will share lessons from higher education deployments, including how the Texas A&M University has protected distributed infrastructure and reclaimed approximately 100 hours of analyst time through security workflow automation. 

Why attend:

  • See how AI agents automate investigation and turn alerts into prioritized, evidence-backed threat cases
  • Learn why connected security data is essential for faster detection, investigation and response
  • Discover practical approaches for expanding SOC capacity without adding headcount

Attend the live webinar to obtain your complimentary certificate of attendance!

Speakers

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Greg DeYoung

Regional Vice President, US SLED Central, Elastic

Greg DeYoung is a Regional Vice President at Elastic working with SLED organizations. With a 35-year career bridging the gap between public sector leadership and enterprise technology, Greg offers a rare 360-degree perspective on the challenges facing modern government and education institutions. Before transitioning to executive roles at Microsoft and Elastic, he spent two decades serving as a Public Sector CIO, where he was responsible for the digital infrastructure of complex, multi-stakeholder organizations.

Having managed the same constrained budgets, navigated the same legacy technical debt, and defended the same "open" perimeters as his customers, Greg brings immediate credibility to the conversation. He is known for his ability to bridge the gap between technical complexity and organizational impact—translating fragmented data silos and security vulnerabilities into actionable, executive-level strategies. He excels at helping agency heads and institutional leaders understand that modernizing a tech stack is not just an IT project, but a fundamental requirement for fulfilling their public mission.

At Elastic, Greg focuses on helping SLED organizations solve the "Data Paradox"—the gap between the massive expectations of how data can empower organizations and the reality of fragmented, unsearchable data. By converging Data, AI, Search, Observability, and Security into a single platform, he helps leaders transition from reactive, fragmented monitoring and response to a unified, AI-ready data foundation. By breaking down these traditional silos, Greg empowers public sector teams to defend against autonomous threats in real-time while delivering the frictionless, data-driven services that modern citizens and students demand. Whether facilitating executive dialogue or leading strategic initiatives, he bypasses vendor-centric pitches to facilitate candid, peer-driven discussions that help leaders become the strategic "Change Architects" their organizations require.

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Bobby Suber

Sr Manager, Solutions Architecture, Elastic

Bobby Suber leads Elastic's Solutions Architecture organization for Global Public Sector. He works with government and education organizations to modernize security operations, improve operational resilience, and unlock the value of their data through cybersecurity, observability, and AI-driven analytics. His work focuses on helping agencies strengthen collaboration, reduce operational silos, and improve outcomes through unified data and technology strategies.

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William "Bill" Rials, Ph.D. — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Education

William (Bill) Rials, Ph.D., is an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Senior Professor of Practice at Tulane University where he oversees academic programs in information technology, cybersecurity, emerging technologies, and other applied fields. He leads strategic curriculum development, assessment, new program design, and faculty governance with a focus on preparing adult learners for rapidly evolving digital and AI-driven careers.

Beyond higher education, Dr. Rials is recognized nationally as a leading voice at the intersection of government, technology, and education. He serves as a Senior Fellow with both the Center for Digital Government and Education and the Center for Public Sector AI, where he provides strategic insights on innovation, workforce transformation, and the responsible use of emerging technologies. A frequent keynote speaker, panelist, and moderator, he engages national audiences on topics ranging from AI adoption and cybersecurity resilience to digital transformation in state and local government. His expertise is regularly featured in national media outlets and industry publications, and he contributes scholarship, commentary, and research in both academic journals and practitioner platforms.

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