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<Title>Alliance Info Systems-Beyond the Email Gateway - 11.10</Title>
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    <strong><span>11.10.2020 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm</span></strong><div><p><strong><span>Description</span></strong></p>
    
    <p><span> </span><span>Join us to
    learn what could be hiding in your Office 365 email that the Gateway did not
    block. We will highlight gaps in existing email security solutions and a free
    tool that can be used to identify these threats.</span></p>
    
    <p><span> </span><strong><span>Targeted Audience</span></strong></p><p></p>
    
    <p><span>public and private K-20 educational
    institutions, federal institutions, and public libraries</span></p>
    
    <p><span> </span><strong><span>Presenter</span></strong></p><p></p>
    
    <p><span>Thorsten
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<Title>Deloitte-Cloud Security for State, Local, and HEd - 11.5</Title>
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    <strong><span>11.5.2020 - 10:00am
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    <p><span>This presentation will provide best practices for securing
    application workloads in the cloud. </span></p>
    
    <p><span> </span><strong><span>Targeted Audience</span></strong></p><p></p>
    
    <p><span>Security Specialist and
    Security Architects</span></p>
    
    <p><span> </span><strong><span>Presenter</span></strong></p><p></p>
    
    <p><span>Delvin
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<Title>DALY-Microsoft Modern Work - 10.29</Title>
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    <strong><span>10.29.2020, 11:00 am to
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    <p><strong><span>Description</span></strong></p>
    
    <p><span>Surface Hub 2S, Teams platform on
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    <p><strong><span>Targeted Audience</span></strong></p>
    
    <p><span>End Users
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    <p><strong><span>Presenter</span></strong></p>
    
    <p><span><span><span>Kellan Nix , Manager of Microsoft Modern Work, Synnex </span></span></span></p>
    
    <p><span> </span></p>
    
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<Title>HCGi: Information Security for the Education Market 10.28</Title>
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    <strong><span>10.28.2020, 11:00 am to
    12:00 pm</span></strong></div><div><br></div><div>
    
    <p><strong><span>Description</span></strong></p>
    
    <p><span>HCGi, a Gold Partner with Hewlett
    Packard Enterprise, cordially invites you to our upcoming MEEC Seminar on
    Information Security for the Education Market.<br>
    Please join us as we welcome James Morrison, Distinguished Technologist- Cyber
    Security from HPe. James spent 22 years with the FBI as a Senior Computer
    Scientist focused on cyber security. He brings a wealth of knowledge to his
    current role at HPe, and will address the current security challenges facing
    the Education marketplace as well as best practices for IT administrators.<br>HCGi welcomes you to this special event.</span></p>
    
    <p><strong><span>Targeted Audience</span></strong></p>
    
    <p><span>MEEC Members</span></p>
    
    <p><strong><span>Presenter</span></strong></p>
    
    <p><span>James Morrison, Distinguished
    Technologist- Cyber Security from HPe</span></p>
    
    <p><span> </span></p>
    
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<Title>CAS Severn-Loyola's Next-Gen Infrastructure with HCI 10.27</Title>
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    10:00 am to 11:00 am</span></span></h3><p><span><span><strong><br></strong></span></span></p><span><span><p><strong><span>Description</span></strong></p><p><span> </span><span>Loyola University, in partnership with CAS
    Severn modernized their environment implementing Hyper Converged Infrastructure
    with Nutanix to consolidate and add High Availability to their Campus Apps,
    while simplifying and modernizing Data Protection with a Hybrid Cloud backup
    HCI platform, Rubrik. They plan to review with CAS their documented results and
    many wins from the project and will discuss how they are leveraging both to
    increase their consumption of Azure cloud services currently and into the future.
    CAS will also review their overall Mult-Cloud Architecture reference
    architecture and some high- level workload placement strategies followed by
    their MEEC member clients.</span></p><p><strong><span>Targeted Audience</span></strong></p><p><span>IT Directors, CIOs, IT managers,
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    James McCartin - Associate Director, Servers and Storage, Loyola<br>
    Mark Belluz - Director State/Local and Education, CAS Severn<br>
    Joe King - Chief Technology Officer, CAS<br>
    Sean Nally - Solution Engineer, Nutanix<br>
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<Title>ePlus Technology-Academic Threat Landscape Briefing-10.22</Title>
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    Briefing</span></strong></span></p>
    
    <p><span>10.22.2020
    11:00 am to 12:00<strong> </strong>pm</span></p>
    
    
    
    <p><strong><span>Description</span></strong></p>
    
    <p><span>This brief covers CrowdStrike and
    Proofpoint's latest and most relevant intelligence trends pertaining to
    nation-state and criminal threat actor groups with a focus on how these groups
    might impact the Academic Sector. We will review associated threat actor
    capabilities and infrastructure, as well as their tactics, techniques, and
    procedures (TTPs). This brief will discuss specific implications to the
    Academic sector, how current events are influencing cybersecurity threats to
    this vertical, as well as some best practices that can be undertaken in order
    to harden their organizational cybersecurity posture.</span></p>
    
    <p><span> </span></p>
    
    <p><strong><span>Targeted
    Audience</span></strong></p>
    
    <p><strong><span>Academic IT Professionals and Executives who are
    Interested in Cyber Security</span></strong></p>
    
    <p><span> </span></p>
    
    <p><strong><span>Presenters</span></strong></p>
    
    <p><span>Jason Consorti,  Engineer at
    Proofpoint &amp; Christian Rencken Strategic Threat Advisor at CrowdStrike</span></p>
    
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    <p><span>10.21.2020 - </span><span>10:00 am to 11:00 am</span></p>
    
    
    
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    concern. To strengthen postures, technology leaders are looking for security
    capabilities and measures to address new threats. We’ll discuss the most
    critical considerations for remote work, including security must-haves and how
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    <p><span> </span><span>Husein
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    <p><span>10.20.2020 - 10:30 am to 11:30<strong> </strong>am</span></p>
    
    <p><strong><span>Description</span></strong></p><p><span>Arm your team with the right tools for a
    holistic approach to Zero-Trust Network Access, from endpoint security to
    network access control.</span></p>
    
    <p><span> </span><strong><span>Targeted Audience</span></strong></p>
    
    <p><span> </span><span>IT
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    <p><span> </span><strong><span>Presenter</span></strong></p>
    
    <p><span>Bryan Hume - Fortinet Regional
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<Summary>Wi-Fi 6 Partner Showdown - K-12 CDW-G Webinar Tuesday, October 13th, 2020/11:30am CST-1pm CST     For more information click here.</Summary>
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    <ul><ul><li><span>Customers can <strong>“Choose
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          sessions that are relevant to them – it’s not all-or-nothing
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      <li><span>Sessions will include
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      <li><span>Immersive experience is
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          multiple engagement opportunities including live polling and live chat
          with CDW subject matter experts</span></li>
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