Archived: Staying Ahead of K–12 Email Threats: How Aldine ISD Protects 39,500 Mailboxes
July 28th, 2026, at 1:00 PM ET | Sponsored by Abnormal AI
Email security for K–12 districts are harder than it looks. Schools are facing a surge in phishing, account takeover, and socially engineered attacks that blend seamlessly into everyday communication — and existing defenses are no longer keeping up.
Archived: Identity Orchestration: The Missing Layer in Your District's Digital Learning Environment
July 7th, 2026, at 1:00 PM ET | Sponsored by Identity Automation
This session breaks down identity orchestration into a practical six-layer framework, showing district leaders exactly how their portal, single sign-on, authentication, provisioning, rostering, and applications should work together — and where gaps in that system create real risk for students and staff.
Archived: Leveraging Defender XDR & Sentinel Automations
May 5th, 2026, at 1:00 PM ET | Sponsored by Microsoft
As threats increasingly target identities, speed and consistency of response are critical. In this session, we’ll explore how Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel can work together to automate high‑impact security actions—specifically disabling compromised user accounts and revoking active user sessions in near real time.
Archived: Beyond the Breach: Setting a New Security Standard for Vendor Partnerships
April 21st, 2026, at 1:00 PM ET | Sponsored by Clever
In just two years, vendor-related incidents in U.S. districts spiked from 4% to 32%. Today, cybersecurity isn't a background task—it’s a persistent condition of school operations. With one in two districts now having experienced a breach, the conversation is shifting from "What if?" to "How do we protect the student identities that matter most?"
Archived: The K12 SIX Essential Cybersecurity Protections: Cyber Defense for Every K-12 Organization
April 16, 2026, at 1:00 PM ET
Those who offer cybersecurity advice to school organizations often make spurious assumptions about the threats schools face, their IT/OT infrastructure, and the unique context in which they operate. To address this guidance gap, members of the K12 Security Information eXchange (K12 SIX) have been collaborating since 2021 to develop and iterate on a freely available framework and set of tools to help school systems and other K-12 organizations to identify the next steps in their cybersecurity programs.