Description

Every day, education leaders and IT teams are tired of being asked about the financial impact of a security breach or a ransomware attack on their educational institutions.

Your staff and employees just want access to Internet sites and content they can trust.

Learn how three educational institutions found the best way to protect on-premises and remote end users by deploying cloud security solutions that provide built-in protection from:

•             Ransomware

•             Malware

•             Phishing

•             Command and control callback attacks Cloud security solutions

•             Take minutes to deploy

•             Require no additional hardware or software

•             Block threats early in the kill chain, even before devices connect

We look forward to speaking with you about transforming your Internet access experience by deploying Cisco Umbrella, the first line of defense against Internet threats, and Cloudlock, securing usage of the cloud."

Targeted Audience

Institutional Executives, IT Executives, IT Management, and IT Staff for the following: K-12, Higher-Education, Libraries

Presenters

Nell Feldman, IT Security Manager at Montgomery College

Bryan Myers, Senior Account Manager at Networking For Future, Inc.

Ibrahim Darwish, Cybersecurity Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc

The MEEC AV Agreement provides a large number of vendors, a wider range of products and the services to support the AV needs of the MEEC Membership. The new agreement combines the previous AV hardware and services agreement into one unified agreement.

AV AGREEMENT OVERVIEW WEBINARS - 1/24/19, 10am-11am & 2/14/19, 9am–10am

We will provide an overview of the agreement, how it differs from the last AV agreement and offer time for your questions.

The MEEC AV Agreement provides a large number of vendors, a wider range of products and the services to support the AV needs of the MEEC Membership. The new agreement combines the previous AV hardware and services agreement into one unified agreement. 

SHOWCASE– 2/6/19 9:30am-1:30pm @MEEC (1450 S Rolling Rd, Halethorpe, MD 21227)

Please join MEEC and the Vendors on the new AV Agreement on February 6^th from 9:30am – 1:30pm.  Vendor representatives will be available to answer your questions.

Description

Learn how to leverage Microsoft's Power BI, a tool included in both Option A and B for all MEEC members, to enable anyone in your organization to visualize and analyze data with greater speed, efficiency, and understanding. It connects users to a broad range of live data through easy-to-use dashboards, provides interactive reports, and delivers compelling visualizations that bring data to life.

Power BI is a connector between people and the power of the data that lives in the cloud, your on-premise databases, in Excel spreadsheets or text files.

You don’t have to be a technical expert, data scientist, or statistician to take advantage of the wide variety of intelligence analytical capabilities that we have - statistical analysis, machine learning, building custom application.

Targeted Audience

All K-12 and Higher Ed administrators, educators, data analysts, CIOs.

Presenter

Dustin Ryan, Solution Architect

Description

MEEC Members Don't Have to Go 'IT' Alone

Higher education institutions across the nation are struggling to meet the increasing demand for IT services in the face of budget cuts and talent shortages. When it comes to information technology, the price of ""going it alone"" is becoming ever more costly. As a member of MEEC, you have a unique opportunity to lower costs and increase student success by sharing services with fellow consortia members.

Whether shared services is a brand new concept or you're in the process of considering it, this complimentary webinar will help position your institution for success by teaching you how to:

•          Identify share partners.

•          Increase efficiency, reduce administrative IT costs, and improve service using shared services.

•          Select the right shared services model for your institution.

•          Implement shared services best practices.

•          Avoid common pitfalls.

Targeted Audience

All MEEC Members

Presenter

Liz Murphy, Chief Evangelist, CampusWorks, Inc.

• How to enroll devices – Azure AD joined and Hybrid Domain Joined
• Create policies to secure devices and protect data
• Deploy applications to keep users productive
• Use the Intune Data Warehouse to report on items.