The MEEC Member Conference and Vendor Showcase is Thursday, March 28, 2019 at Martin’s West in Windsor Mill, MD.  The Conference will be a full day of presentations, exhibits and networking, designed to bring together MEEC Members and Vendors in both an educational and social atmosphere. 

The sessions presented by MEEC Members and Vendors are critical to the success of this conference.  Member sessions are always highly rated by our attendees.  Evaluations from last year’s conference indicate attendees want more member-led sessions.  PLEASE SUBMIT.  Vendors, consider including a Member who has used your services or products and have a great story to tell.  In the past, sessions have showcased case studies, their experiences, new tools, new ideas and new approaches to the use of products/services purchased from MEEC agreements. Here is your chance to help others by presenting on a topic that supports technology in education. (Please note the addition of Member-only Fast-Track Sessions.)  Session Submissions open November 28 and the deadline for submission is January 16, 2019 at 5pm.

Adobe Shared Device License for ETLA Education Customers Webinar

Join us to learn more about Adobe Shared Device License for ETLA Education Customers

Adobe recognized the need to improve the student and faculty experience for accessing Adobe products in shared environments (e.g., labs, libraries, shared classrooms) and is working on a new licensing solution called Shared Device Licensing.

Shared Device Licensing will provide access to the latest versions of Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Acrobat and is planned to be available in the first quarter of 2019 at no additional cost.

Join us for a webinar to learn more about what Shared Device Licensing is, how it works and the resources that will be available to help you plan, deploy, and manage Shared Device Licensing at your institution.

Featuring:

Rick Borstein Sr. Manager, Creative Cloud Solutions Consulting Adobe

Alex Gay Director of Product Marketing, Creative Cloud Adobe

Holger Buerger Sr. Product Manager, Enterprise Offerings Adobe

Description

State of Security Overview in Education

Challenges facing Higher Education and K-12(Complexity, Automation, Scalability and Cloud):

• Campus networks have had to keep up with increasing demand for bandwidth, while maintaining high network performance and availability
• Managing and maintaining consistent security on BYOD and School issued devices
• Preventing data breaches and the loss of sensitive information, including financial transactions, personal data and intellectual property, resulting from third-party-funded research.
• Manage disjointed, distributed networks and endpoint security.
• Securing district data centers and cloud resources 
• Protecting a plethora of devices and operating systems
• Enforcing various security policies for students, teachers and administrators across a large or geographically distributed school district.

Solution:

• The Palo Alto Networks security operating platform is built on core security principles. Application and user visibility is provided through our APP-ID and USER-ID capabilities for identity management security. Virtual Segmentation allows us to limit the scope of vulnerability, limit data exfiltration, and limit the scope of compliance. We can protect both North-South via public, private or hybrid cloud, and East- via existing hardware and virtual machines. Advanced and Zero Day Attack prevention and remediation is provided down to the endpoints via our platform approach that is powered through our threat intelligence engine. Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform provides Higher Education and K-12 institutions around the world with coordinated, highly effective, and easily administered threat prevention, protecting sensitive data and ensuring regulatory compliance while maintaining high network performance.

Agenda

8am-9am Registration

9am-9:15am- Welcome- Daly Computers

9:15am- 10:15am State of Security Overview in Education

10:15am-11am Break

11am-12pm- Palo Alto Platform Overview

12pm- 1pm  Lunch

1pm-2pm Traps Overview-

Targeted Audience

All MEEC members

Presenters

Jason Keller, Named Account Manager – Palo Alto Networks

Paul Hill, Systems Engineer, Daly Computers, Inc.

Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Testing, Risk Assessments, Security Assessments: What’s in a name?  

Description

"Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Testing, Risk Assessments, Security Assessments – these terms are often used interchangeably by security personnel and vendors alike. What you think you need, what you ask for, and what you actually get can be very different things. The purpose of this webinar is to clearly define and help the attendee understand what each of these services actually is, and when to use each in order to help them achieve their cyber security and compliance goals.

This event will be moderated by Lyle Liberman, COO of JANUS, and presented by Matt Lane, CIO of JANUS, a former Recitation Instructor for Advanced Software Engineering at Columbia University. A 10 minute Q&A session will take place at the end of the presentation.

Continuing Education Credit Program: All who attend the entire event will be able to claim one (1) CE credit from the following organizations for the certifications listed below:

• ISACA: CISA, CISM, CGEIT, COBIT 5, CRISC, CSX-P

• (ISC)2 : CISSP, CISSP- ISSAP, CISSP – ISSEP, CISSP – ISSMP, CSSLP,

CAP, CCSP, SSCP, HCISSP

• CompTIA: A+, Security+, Cloud+, CySA+, Linux+, Network+,

Project+, Server+, Pen Test+, CASP

• EC Council: CEI, CEH, CNDA, CSCU, CHFI, CCISO, ECCI, ECES, ECIH,

ECSP, ECSA, ECVP, ENSA, LPT, CSCU, EDRP, CSAD, ECSP, CEP,

Security 5, Network 5, Wireless 5

• IAPP: CIPP, CIPT, CIPM, CIPP/E, FIP

Information regarding the CE request process will be presented on the final slide. Attendance will be verified."

Targeted Audience

CIO, CISO, and IT personnel. Privacy, Compliance, Legal, and Procurement personnel.  

Presenters

Lyle Liberman, Chief Operating Officer, Janus Associates  - Moderator

Matt Lane, Chief Information Officer – Janus Associates -  Presenter

Description

Join us to learn more about how students and faculty are empowered to achieve more with the built-in accessibility features in Microsoft technologies. We will demonstrate accessibility features available on Windows 10 and Office 365 you can leverage to support learners inside and outside the classroom with visual, audio, cognitive, and mobility needs.

Targeted Audience

Higher Ed and K-12 Teachers, Faculty, Staff and IT Leadership

Presenter

Zia Hassan, Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert

Description

“There are significant deployment changes to Adobe software in 2018-19, that you need to be aware of.  With serial keys expiring in 2019, please come to see how you can avoid software access disruption.”

Targeted Audience

IT Departments

Presenter

Steven Watson, Customer Success Manager, Adobe

Come to the AVI-SPL Washington, D.C. TechXchange on Thursday, September 27, and you’ll learn from experts how space, design, technology, and people are coming together to define new and better work experiences.

If you’ve been tasked to do more with less, increase business agility, or help create the workplace environment that gives people the tools to innovate and collaborate, treat yourself to a valuable day of learning from experts and networking with peers—where the lunch is on us.

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