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What If Students Graduated With Experience?
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Universities produce graduates with degrees, certifications and training, yet employers continue to say they cannot find enough qualified talent. The missing ingredient is often not knowledge but experience. LSU’s TigerSOC program addresses ...
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Ivy League CISOs to Watch: The Leaders Protecting America’s Most Storied Universities
The eight Ivy League universities collectively hold some of the most sensitive data on earth: classified defense research, clinical records, centuries of institutional knowledge, and the personal information of hundreds of thousands ...
Wisconsin’s Higher Education CISOs to Watch
Wisconsin’s higher education cybersecurity landscape spans a flagship research university, a statewide university system, regional campuses, technical colleges, and the network infrastructure that connects K-12 schools, libraries, and municipalities across the state ...
Oregon’s Higher Education Security Leaders: CISOs to Watch
Higher education cybersecurity in Oregon spans flagship research universities, regional public institutions, urban community colleges, and small liberal arts campuses. The CISOs in this feature are protecting student records, research data, financial ...
Missouri’s Academic Security Leaders: The CISOs to Watch Across the State’s Higher Education Landscape
Higher education cybersecurity in Missouri spans flagship research universities, regional public institutions, private Jesuit universities, and specialized health sciences colleges. The CISOs in this feature are protecting student records, research data, clinical ...
The CISOs Protecting Michigan’s Campuses, Classrooms, and Research
Higher education cybersecurity in Michigan runs from flagship research universities handling federally funded science and sensitive health data to community colleges serving working adults with lean security teams and limited budgets. The ...
The CISOs Protecting Colorado’s Students, Staff, and Institutional Data
Higher education sits in an uncomfortable position in cybersecurity. The data CISOs protect is among the most sensitive imaginable: student records, financial aid information, research data, health records, and the personal information ...
Where Arizona’s Higher Education CISOs Are Setting the Standard
Higher education is one of the more punishing environments in cybersecurity. The user population is enormous and transient, the research data is sensitive and often federally regulated, the networks are deliberately open ...
Cybersecurity Leaders to Watch in Seattle’s Higher Education Industry
Seattle’s higher education sector depends on cybersecurity leaders who can protect research environments, student and employee data, academic systems, and the digital infrastructure that keeps modern institutions running. The people in this ...
Cybersecurity Leaders to Watch in California Community College
California’s community college districts serve large and varied populations while supporting broad administrative, academic, and public-facing technology environments. The cybersecurity leaders in this feature are working across district systems where reliability, access, ...

