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RE: education/training advise for a colleague

Posted By Jason Smith 01-19-2024 11:56:34 AM
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Sounds like the perfect kind of person to go for CISA certification (https://www.isaca.org/credentialing/cisa). On Indeed, do a job keyword search for "CISA" to get a sense of the kind of opportunities that would open up. ------------------------------ Jason Smith IT Director Bon Secours Memorial ...

FW: Cybersecurity Updates from Federal Student Aid

Posted By Jason Smith 06-27-2023 08:42:36 AM
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Passing along this excellent cybersecurity newsletter from the Office of Federal Student Aid. Lot's of coverage around the new GLBA requirements that DOE will apparently begin auditing in the near future. To sign up and receive FSA's new cybersecurity newsletter, please email FSASchoolCyberSafety@ed.gov ...

RE: Choices for a new video streaming and archiving solution

Posted By Jason Smith 06-16-2023 11:59:10 AM
Found In Egroup: Small Colleges \ view thread
Another happy Panopto customer here - it's fantastic. We started from scratch (no migration) so cannot speak to that piece. Faculty adoption was not difficult at all – they like the product so much that they were enthusiastic about learning it. Jason E. Smith, MS PMP CISSP CPHIMS CSM Director of ...

RE: Providing Students with Technology Devices

Posted By Jason Smith 04-19-2023 09:09:20 AM
Found In Egroup: Small Colleges \ view thread
We are about to embark on a new process for the first time this Fall semester. Current plan: Updating our published technology requirements to state that students enrolled after X date must have a specific, college-provided laptop.College will purchase a new laptop for each anticipated new/incoming ...

RE: approach to doing cost/benefit analysis for IT risk mitigation

Posted By Jason Smith 04-04-2023 08:04:40 AM
Found In Egroup: Small Colleges \ view thread
Allan, I would tend to interpret an 'ask' like this as "we want you (Allan) to perform a cost/benefit analysis and then bring your recommendations around the best courses of action to us." Even if they asked for it - I think most boards would drown in the complexity of the actual cost/benefit analysis. ...

RE: EDR/XDR/MDR solutions

Posted By Jason Smith 11-02-2022 02:11:04 PM
Found In Egroup: Small Colleges \ view thread
We used to be a Carbon Black shop before cost cutting requirements necessitated a cheaper solution. Generally speaking, it was excellent. The endpoint client was lightweight and unobtrusive. Administrative care and feeding was reasonable. The detection and alerts were good and the "falses" were not excessive. ...

RE: Providing students with computers?

Posted By Jason Smith 10-31-2022 08:54:48 AM
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Such great information and useful replies - thank you all for sharing! I'm laying out all the pros and cons of the approaches folks have mentioned and will take that back to our academic and student partners for additional consideration. ------------------------------ Jason Smith IT Director Bon Secours ...

Providing students with computers?

Posted By Jason Smith 10-25-2022 10:10:11 AM
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We currently employ at BYOD model for students at our college where they are responsible for buying and generally maintaining their computer. We provide minimum technical requirements for what they should purchase and recommend three specific models at different price points ($600-$1200). We provide ...

RE: Print Management

Posted By Jason Smith 10-18-2022 02:18:44 PM
Found In Egroup: Small Colleges \ view thread
We went from one extreme to the other. We used to have unlimited printing at no cost. During the heart of Covid, we found that students who should have been staying offsite and taking classes remotely were driving onto campus to print, usually for ridiculous things like printing all of the powerpoint ...

RE: How to handle growing list of supported applications

Posted By Jason Smith 07-19-2022 08:26:51 AM
Found In Egroup: IT Governance \ view thread
We have a pretty sophisticated applications portfolio management process at our institution that generally works well. Within IT, we have an "applications team" which consists of application analysts (and their managers). That team is responsible for maintaining an inventory of every application (in-house, ...

Job Opening: Blackboard LMS Applications Analyst (Richmond, VA)

Posted By Jason Smith 07-07-2022 09:20:14 AM
Found In Egroup: Instructional Technologies \ view thread
Bon Secours Health System is currently seeking an LMS Applications Analyst with Blackboard experience to support three area colleges owned by the health system. This individual will partner with the academic program to prepare the LMS for each semester, monitor and resolve issues, manage changes and ...

Laser engraver?

Posted By Jason Smith 04-12-2022 10:41:32 AM
Found In Egroup: Small Colleges \ view thread
Can anyone recommend an inexpensive laser engraver to inscribe college name / logo / phone number etc. on small devices (laptops, iPads, etc.)? Speed and volume are not major concerns as we would be inscribing less than 500 devices/year. Thank you! ------------------------------ Jason Smith IT Director ...