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John Levay
CTO/CIO,
Niagara College
As cyberthreats rise, how can education institutions protect themselves, when they can't hire or keep enough cybersecurity staff? Ontario's higher education institutions and their research and education network (ORION) created Ontario's Cybersecurity Higher Education Consortium (ON-CHEC) as a shared service to collaboratively combat cyberthreats.