Think you know everything there is to know about the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)? The U.S. Department of Education’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) is issuing a challenge to all attendees to apply their knowledge to the test! In this session, we will explore a variety of real-world scenarios that concern student privacy and ask you, the audience, to help us work through them. This session provides an excellent forum for discussion of complex issues regarding FERPA and a great space to have your questions answered. Do you think you have what it takes? To that we say, “It depends!”
Wednesday June 17, 2026 9:30am - 10:10am MDT GW 222
Explore how higher education institutions can operationalize Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) using the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT) as a practical, scalable foundation.
Wednesday June 17, 2026 10:12am - 11:00am MDT GW 222
Education agencies and schools are a favorite target of cyber criminals. This session provides tips to help teachers and education staff increase cybersecurity readiness, cyber-awareness, and to recognize and defeat cyber threats and protect the privacy of students and other school staff. Attendees will come away with strategies for spotting social engineering techniques, safe browsing strategies, and resources to learn more.
Wednesday June 17, 2026 11:10am - 12:00pm MDT GW 222
A hands-on workshop where attendees practice reframing their security priorities into business language — live. We'll work through real scenarios: pitching a security initiative to a CFO, explaining abreach to a board, and turning a risk register into something anon-technical leader can act on. Attendees leave with a repeatable framework they can use the next time they need to make security make sense to the rest of the business.
Wednesday June 17, 2026 1:30pm - 4:20pm MDT GW 222
