Zero Trust and Four Regulations: How Two Schools Adopted One New Technology and Saved Six Figures

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | 8:00AM–8:45AM ET | Harborside Ballroom D, 4th Floor
Session Type: Breakout Session
Delivery Format: Presentation/Panel
Regulatory compliance and data protection burden security teams with three opposing demands: secure universities’ sensitive information from increasingly sophisticated threats, keep users happy, and control the budget. Two universities with thousands of staff and students are tackling their most pressing compliance and security needs with a new approach to the most familiar software on campus: the browser. A private California university and a public Texas university are rethinking how to innovate their networks by safeguarding data where it’s most vulnerable. At the same time, they’ve unlocked dramatic savings and displaced aging tools without disrupting the user experience.

Presenters

  • Shawn Kerns

    Manager of Information Security Operations, University of the Pacific

  • monty Montgomery

    VP Strategic Initiatives, Island

  • Dan Owen

    Chief Information Security Officer, Texas State University