This session is a Birds of a Feather session with the open ended topic of Security as it impacts the higher education and R&E Network community in the Great Plains Networks. The target audience is CISOs, CIOs, and security professionals responsible for implementing and providing IT security to protect your organization from the myriad security threats that affect us daily. Discussions may extend into the more specific realms of security policy and actions required for protecting research data from theft, privacy exposures, data loss, or data integrity violations.