Higher Education Cybersecurity Fireside Chat

Your environment was built to be open. Your security strategy still has to protect it.

You are securing students and their personal devices. Business units handling sensitive data on managed systems. Faculty and researchers who need the freedom to collaborate and experiment.

Each group requires something different. Yet your team is responsible for protecting all of them—without slowing down learning, research, or everyday operations.

Join Bryan Scovill, Network Security Program Manager for the University System of New Hampshire, and Michelle Drolet, Founder and CEO of Towerwall, for a candid conversation about what changes when you stop known threats before they reach your network.

After 30 years at UNH and nearly a decade using Centripetal, Bryan has firsthand experience protecting a complex higher-education environment. He will share how you can:

• Protect different users and systems without applying the same controls everywhere
• Apply threat intelligence at a scale your firewalls were never designed to handle
• Reduce the unwanted traffic reaching your firewall, SIEM, and other security tools
• Give your downstream systems—and your team—more capacity to focus on what matters
• Avoid continually expanding firewall infrastructure simply to process more traffic

You will also have the opportunity to ask questions, exchange ideas with your peers, and understand how this approach could apply within your own institution.

Agenda

4:30 PM
Registration and networking

5:00 PM
Fireside chat with Bryan Scovill and Michelle Drolet

5:30 PM
Live audience Q&A

5:40 PM
Roundtable discussion: How can you protect higher education without closing it off?

6:20 PM
Dinner and networking