Overview

November 9

Cybersecurity is always a priority in education — but today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape creates even greater urgency around this issue. Growth of targeted attacks and increasingly sophisticated criminal activity have many schools and universities searching for security strategies that can deliver the protection campuses need now.

The Center for Digital Education will host a live interactive webcast to explore and evaluate defense-in-depth, zero trust and traditional moat/castle security architectures. Our panel of experts will identify the benefits of each approach and show you how to incorporate all three strategies into your campuses’ network infrastructure to strengthen security posture.

This session will cover critical security issues such as:

Microsegmentation for LANs and Wi-Fi networks
Improving access control through automated policies
Effective techniques for reducing device vulnerabilities
Using analytics for proactive security management

Speakers

Tom Dugas

Assistant Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Duquesne University

Tom Dugas serves as the Assistant Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Duquesne University where he leads the Information (cyber) security program to protect the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of data and systems. Prior to joining Duquesne University, he spent over 11 years at Carnegie Mellon University where he held a variety of leadership positions. Tom is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and was recognized as the 2019 CISO of the Year by the Pittsburgh Technology Council. He serves as a Co-leader of the Greater Pittsburgh CISO Group, a member of the Advisory Board for the Pittsburgh CIO Forum, and part of the Governing Body of the Pittsburgh CIO Executive Summit. He is a graduate of Robert Morris University with a Master’s degree in Communication and Information Systems and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with majors in Accounting and Management Information Systems. He is also an alumnus of the 2009 Leading Change/Frye Leadership Institute and the 2006 Educause Institute Leadership Program. He also is an active member of the KINBER Information Security Working Group, Internet2/Educause Cloud Services Group, C-CUE Information Security Consortium, InfraGard, and Steel City Information Security Group.

Greg Kovich

Director, Global Education Sales, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

Greg Kovich is the Global sales leader for the Education vertical at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise. Prior to assuming this role, Greg had led the North American Education vertical. During this time, Greg has overseen or created several vertical focused solutions including “The Fundamentals of Communications” – a vendor neutral course on digital network communications; “Safe Campus” – a solution uniting emergency alerts with first responder collaboration and mass notification; “Secure Campus” – a solution that allows instructors to limit student network access to determined sites; and “Pandemic Education Continuity” – a solution that enables classroom instruction in the event that the institution is closed due to health or environmental crisis. A 1992 graduate of Indiana University, Greg has over 20 years experience in Information Technology.

Jim Jorstad — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Jim Jorstad is an innovative global force on the effective use of technology in teaching, learning and research. Currently the interim CIO at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, he heads a team responsible for providing services to over 1,500 staff and 10,000 students. He has extensive experience in learning space design, strategic social media and deploying major IT technologies. His film and journalist work has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Forbes and NPR and he is the recipient of the 2013 CNN iReport Spirit Award. Jim is also an EDUCAUSE Leading Change Fellow, one of 50 IT professionals chosen worldwide for the award.

Webinar

Zero trust or Moat/Castle? Creating the best security strategy for your campus