K-12 Education Cybersecurity Threats and What We Can Do About Them

Watch Rich Gay, PowerSchool’s Chief Information Security Officer, and Paul Maher, a Microsoft Cloud Solution Expert, in this on-demand webinar to discover how your K-12 school or district can:

• Mitigate your risks by performing a cybersecurity assessment to understand your specific needs, goals, and challenges
• Improve prevention strategies by creating an effective program of security training and assessment for all users
• Create an actionable response plan to effectively manage any security issues you face
• Increase security, free up staff time, and reduce maintenance costs by moving to cloud hosting

Cybersecurity threats are increasing. Improve your ability to protect valuable student and staff information.

The number of cybersecurity threats in education continues to grow. With the move to remote and hybrid learning, more users are online, leading to an even greater potential for data security risks and disruptions to teaching and learning.

It’s more important than ever to bolster your cybersecurity efforts to make sure your systems, data, and privacy are safe.

Check out this on-demand webinar with experts in the field of cybersecurity, specifically around K-12 education systems. We’ll discuss the conversations you should be having with all your stakeholders on cybersecurity threats, prevention, and responses.

By the end of this webinar, you’ll learn:

• Basics of cloud hosting, including security benefits, common questions, and concerns
• How to plan for risk assessment, cybersecurity training, and creating a response plan
• Why it’s critical to work with edtech vendors with proven high data safety standards

Rich joined PowerSchool in 2003 and is currently responsible for engineering, quality assurance, and hosting operations. Rich has led the PowerSchool R&D team’s substantial improvements in PowerSchool products over the past decade, including technology stack and hosting operations modernization, internationalization, and ability to scale to handle even the largest school districts.

Paul currently leads the Industry Experiences team at Microsoft, focused on helping Microsoft partners with their move to the cloud. Paul is a proven leader in the technology field, having extensive industry experience acquired across a variety of roles, with a passion for technology. He is a strategic thinker, who can look at the big picture or complex problems and distill into actionable output.

Ercenk Keresteci is a Principal Solution Architect on the Industry Experiences team. Mr. Keresteci brings almost 25 years of experience developing applications and solutions. He worked in multiple roles during his Microsoft tenure. He has built two businesses, with pioneering solutions, such as Turkey’s first vehicle tracking platform in late 90’s and first Azure implementations in areas such as autoscaling and diagnostics during the early days of Azure. When he is not working on building exciting solutions on the Azure platform, he loves donating his time to non-profits, spending time with his family, motorcycling, and building various gadgets on micro-controllers connected to the cloud.