Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT

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Education is the most affected sector for malware attacks when compared to other industries like business and professional services, retail and consumer goods, and high tech. 

In the past months, educational organizations have been the target of more than 6.1 million malware attacks, while the second-most affected industry (business and professional services) has only seen 900,000 attacks.

An analysis of ransomware campaigns within higher education found that ransomware attacks against colleges and universities have more than doubled since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

The FBI’s Cyber Division recently warned that ransomware poses a huge risk for higher education, as cybercriminals using this type of attack are now focusing heavily on colleges and universities.

The impact of a ransomware attack can be devastating, costing Colleges and Universities time, payments for decryption keys (Ransom), loss of intellectual property, data, confidential information and impact to the University’s brand. 

In this month’s SUNY Tech Talks, Microsoft, Commvault and Forsyte will talk about Developing a Strategy to Help Prepare for Ransomware Attacks

• Ransomware Overview, Industry Impact & Ransomware Strategies (Microsoft Detection & Response Team & Forsyte) – 20 min
  • Link to more information: Human-Operated Ransomware landing page – Human-operated ransomware | Microsoft Docs
• Ransomware Solutions from Commvault – 20 min
• Open Discussion and Q & A – 20 min

Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT

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Agenda 

• Zero Touch Device Deployment (Intune/Endpoint Manager) – 15 min
  • Chaneil Hall, Microsoft Technical Specialist, will present on how Microsoft Endpoint Manager can help SUNY Campuses deliver a modern workplace and modern management, to protect your data, respond to risk, manage risk, automate device configuration, automatically enroll devices in Intune, in the cloud and on-premises. She will give an overview of the services and tools you use to manage and monitor mobile devices, desktop computers, virtual machines, embedded devices, and servers. 
• Devices for Higher Ed and Academic Medical Centers – 15 min
  • Evette Awa, Microsoft Sr Device Specialist, will discuss Microsoft Surface devices and how Higher Education institutions and Academic Medical Centers are leveraging the Microsoft Suite of devices to provide the high-performance that higher education faculty, staff and students need for hybrid learning success. The Surface suite provides faculty, staff, and students the freedom to work securely anytime and from anywhere. The Surface suite of devices, tools, apps, features, and functionalities are designed for flexibility, versatility, and productivity. The practical uses and integrations of the Surface suite provide faculty, faculty, staff, and students a vibrant collaborative work environment, and teaching and learning experience, where innovation abounds.
• Update from SUNY CPD on the Microsoft Enterprise Skilling Initiative (ESI) Program – 15 min
  • Kris Lynch, SUNY CPD, will give an update on the Microsoft Enterprise Skilling Initiative
• Open Discussion and Q & A – 15 min

Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Endpoints and On-going Monitoring

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) that also delivers Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) for all of your Azure, on-premises, and multi-cloud (Amazon AWS and Google GCP) resources. Defender for Cloud recommendations identify cloud workloads that require security actions and provide you with steps to protect your workloads from security risks. Defender for Cloud secure score gives you a clear view of your security posture based on the implementation of the security recommendations so you can track new security opportunities and precisely report on the progress of your security efforts. Defender for Cloud alerts warn you about security events in your workloads in real-time, including the indicators that led to the event. Defender for Cloud fills three vital needs as you manage the security of your resources and workloads in the cloud and on-premises: Continuous assessment (Understand your current security posture) Secure (Harden all connected resources and services) .Defend (Detect and resolve threats to those resources and services).

Agenda

• Defender for Cloud – Defender for Server
  
  • Capabilities 
  • Differences between P1 vs P2
  • Demo if possible and appropriate
• Defender for Endpoint
  • Capabilities
  • Demo of user experience, monitoring, automation, etc.
• Discussion on options for on-going monitoring (what can a campus do themselves and what can a partner like Forsyte do)

Wednesday, June 29, 2022, 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022, 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT

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• Feature Matrix | M365 Maps
• Steve Scholz’s Deck (Expires on 8/24/2022)

In the month of July, we will continue to focus on security. Microsoft is one of the largest security companies in the world, investing $1 billion per year in security innovations, and is a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrants. The end-to-end solution, combined with a security managed service is a great way for SUNY Campuses reduce cost, reduce risk and improve operations. SUNY Campuses currently own many of the components needed for this end-to-end solution. We will discuss how SUNY can bring together the capabilities of security, compliance, identity, and management to natively integrate individual layers of protection across clouds, platforms, endpoints, and devices. Microsoft Security helps you reduce the risk of data breaches and compliance violations and improve productivity by providing the necessary coverage to enable Zero Trust. 

• Overview of Microsoft Defender (Steve Scholz – Microsoft Security Specialist) – 30 min 
• Overview of Forsyte Guardian 365 & Forsyte Managed Security Service (Forsyte – Jeremy Fass) – 15 min 
• Q and A – 15 min

Links for more info:

• Be fearless, with comprehensive security (microsoft.com)
• A Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ reports | Microsoft Security
• Microsoft Digital Defense Report – Microsoft Security
• How Microsoft Security supports a comprehensive Zero Trust strategy
• 5 Reasons why Microsoft should be your cybersecurity ally – Microsoft Security Blog
• Guardian 365 – Forsyte I.T. Solutions (forsyteit.com)

Wednesday, August 31, 2022, 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT

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• Microsoft Teams enabled devices
• Plan SIP Gateway – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs
• Prepare your organization’s network for Teams – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs
• Plan and Manage Emergency Calling | Microsoft Docs
• Create a call queue in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs
• VOCA Conversational Interaction Center – Audiocodes

Unified Communications with Microsoft Teams Phone and AudioCodes 

On this month’s SUNY Tech Talk you will learn about how Microsoft and AudioCodes has teamed up to provide a low cost modern calling solution, built for this new world of work. On this call Microsoft and AudioCodes will discuss how the approach meets the SUNY Campuses where they are and where they want to go, with flexible approaches, solutions and calling plans to help boost productivity on any device from PCs to mobile phones. 

Agenda

• Microsoft Teams Phone (Telephony) with AudioCodes (20 Min)
  • Who is AudioCodes
  • Overview of Microsoft Teams Phone
  • Solutions for SUNY’s next evolution of Collaboration, Communication, Managing, Teaching and Learning in this Hybrid world.
  • AudioCodes Native MS Teams IP Phones, Meeting room Devices and solutions for Higher Education
• How AudioCodes worked with SUNY Brockport to Design, Plan, Implement, and Operate their Migration to MS Teams Direct Routing (25 Min)
  • (Including economic value and the value of modern communication and collaboration, pathway to decommission legacy communications, need for anywhere and anytime communication)
• Open Discussion and Q&A (15 min)

Additional Information and Links:

• AudioCodes – Voice DNA for the digital workplace
• Teams Phone: Voice and Video Calling | Microsoft Teams
• Gartner Reprint – Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, Worldwide
• The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Teams Calling Solutions
• Microsoft Teams for Online and Hybrid Work | Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Teams Phone | Microsoft Flexibility

Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT

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Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 2:00 – 3:00 PM EDT

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