In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, ensuring the safety of students and staff in K-12 schools has become more complex and critical than ever. This session will explore the pivotal role that advanced technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), plays in enhancing school safety. Designed specifically for K-12 technology professionals, this presentation will delve into innovative AI-driven solutions and best practices that can be implemented to create a secure and supportive learning environment. Key topics will include: Video Surveillance, Access Control, Environmental Sensors, and Emergency Alerting

Security analysts, engineers, and executives are increasingly torn between cyber breach headlines and the latest security tool or software that promises to save the day. This session with Arctic Wolf shares some principles and data points to help Security teams adopt "operational mindsets" that focus on process maturity and outcome-based preparation. With metrics from more than 5,000 Incident Response activities and more than 10,000 active customers, Arctic Wolf arms you with data to drive your team's day-to-day security operations.

As cyberattacks on schools rise, K–12 districts need stronger defenses without added complexity. HPE Aruba Networking helps schools adopt Zero Trust security by controlling who and what connects to the network—whether it’s a student Chromebook, a classroom projector, or a guest device.

Learn how the HPE Aruba Networking portfolio can help you get on the “prevent” side of defense vs react.  We’ll walk you thru a documented attack and point out where Aruba can help you with our identity-based access, real-time threat detection, and AI-driven policy enforcement, Give your IT teams a simple, unified way to manage security and networking across all campuses.

Zero Trust isn’t just for enterprises anymore. Aruba makes it practical—and essential—for schools.

K-12 schools are increasingly targeted by cyberattacks that put sensitive student and faculty information at risk. In this session, learn how Cloudflare helps educational institutions stay ahead of evolving threats by securing networks, protecting data, and simplifying compliance. We’ll explore real-world examples and best practices for keeping student information safe while ensuring fast, reliable access to digital learning resources.

This year funding sources are being cut or altogether disappearing.  Join Fortinet for a discussion on how to reduce costs for various security and networking technologies without giving up functionality or reliability. Across the public sector, there has long been a debate between using best-of-breed products versus adopting integrated platforms.

This discussion will highlight opportunities for consolidation, cost savings, and increased efficiency along this path, helping public sector organizations enhance security while optimizing their resources. Join us to learn how your peers are already accomplishing this on the Fortinet platform.

Proactive security starts here: Trend Vision One is the only enterprise cybersecurity platform that centralizes cyber risk exposure management, security operations, and robust layered protection – empowering you to predict and prevent threats, accelerating proactive security outcomes.

Visibility: Eliminate security blind spots with a comprehensive view of your entire digital estate.

Prioritization: Focus on what matters most - our platform evaluates and ranks security issues based on business impact and urgency.

Mitigation: Elevate security into a strategic partner for innovation by moving beyond reactive threat response toward strategic risk management to support the business

Please join our panel of OEM solution experts discuss what trends and challenges they are seeing across the K12 landscape in regards to cybersecurity as well as how these challenges are being met. The panel will be moderated by CDW's Education Strategist who has 26 years of K12 education leadership experience. 

This session will cover how you can use free tools and framework(s), supplied by various cyber security entities to build a cyber-resilience platform and address deficiencies in your risk portfolio. Starting with a brief discussion of the CIS top 18 controls, the proposed presentation helps small to large K12 entities look at risk in a broader capacity than technology purchases. Topics will be identifying risk, doing a self-audit and when to bring in the “experts” on various aspects of cyber security.