Simplifying Device Management, Security, and Backup for Cyber Resilience at Rocky Mountain University

What happens when a small higher education IT team takes on a CRM migration, a full transition from Google to Microsoft 365, a data warehouse build, an SIS upgrade, AI adoption, and a cybersecurity overhaul—all within three years? You stop treating endpoint management, patching, backup, and recovery as separate projects. This session shares how Rocky Mountain University consolidated a fragmented environment into a unified, policy-driven platform that manages Windows and macOS devices, standardizes monitoring and patching, and backs up both cloud and on-premise systems in one place. Attendees will leave with a practical model for reducing tool sprawl, strengthening cyber resilience, and building an audit-ready foundation aligned to frameworks such as NIST 800-53 without creating a fragile web of integrations or a consultant-dependent implementation.