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Secure Access Without VPN

Date/Time/Room
January 16
10:00 am - 10:50 am CT
Room: Virtual
Strand
Cybersecurity
Audience
Administrators, Technology Leaders/Support

More and more schools are faced with new systems that need to be accessed from outside of the secure perimeter. These can be things like HVAC systems, Camera systems, or even on-premises web applications. Keeping these secure is paramount, but they also need to be easily accessed. Traditional VPN technologies can provide this access, but they require another piece of software to be managed on endpoints that may or may not be managed by the school.

In this session we will look at new zero trust networking approaches to this problem by looking at a case study of how Eric Lind at Pekin Community High School District solved this with the help of RedEye Network Solutions.

Presenter
Ben Story
Ben Story
Sr. Network Security Engineer, RedEye Network Solutions, LLC

Ben Story is a network security engineer for RedEye Network Solutions. He has been working with networking since 1998, his Freshman year at Truman State University, when he worked for a school district-run dial-up ISP managing their Shiva LanRover modem bank. Over the course of his career, he has worked in education, transportation, and healthcare.

Eric Lind
Eric Lind
Director of Technology, Pekin Community High School District #303