GPN 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting

Telia Carrier will be present in this breakout room to meet with attendees.  Sponsors welcome questions about their products and services and may provide short briefings on particular topics of interest.

The federal government is working to provide funding to states to improve broadband availability through infrastructure build-outs and expansion efforts.  The speakers during this breakout will describe efforts in their respective states within the Great Plains Network region to broaden their reach through new fiber infrastructure.

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.

This breakout is a Birds of a Feather session where attendees interested in or engaging in facilitating researchers awareness, access, and effective use of computational and data (aka cyberinfrastructure) resources and services, and other related topics can gather for open discussion.