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When higher education leaders started to realize the pandemic wasn’t going away, they had to move quickly to fully support a remote learning or hybrid-learning environment. Three main IT and security challenges came to the surface, says Hunter Ely. First was the need to quickly support the needs of students and faculty to access campus resources from virtually anywhere. Second, were scaling issues associated with moving on-premises services to the cloud to support a larger remote community. And third, there was — and still is — the need for transformational IT strategies that could meet the budget realities colleges and universities now face. “We've had many conversations in the last few months about the need to reduce overall security spend while increasing efficiency,” says Ely. In this podcast he discusses how colleges and universities can address their security and scaling needs concurrently and in a way that will help promote remote learning. Sponsored by Palo Alto Networks. Guest: Hunter Ely, Security Strategist, Palo Alto Networks Host: Wyatt Kash, SVP, Content Strategy, Scoop News Group Look for more coverage of “IT Modernization in Higher Education” on www.edscoop.com/listen