The Critical Role of Automation in Ensuring Physical Security on Campuses

Join this free webinar to better understand the challenges higher educational institutions face when managing their physical security devices, and how automation can help.

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The need for strong physical security infrastructure within education is more critical today than ever before. Higher educational institutions understand this reality, which is why they invest millions of dollars in keeping their campuses safe. But far too many of them are struggling to operationally manage and monitor their physical security devices.

Join us to understand the challenges higher educational institutions face when managing their physical security devices and how automation can help.

Explore these issues in depth with George Fox, Executive Director of Information and Security Technology at UPenn, and Ido Jaffe, VP Customer Success at SecuriThings.

The webinar will take place at 2:00 PM (EST) on Thursday, November 17.

This online session will give you useful insights into:

  • The current landscape and challenges of physical security operations
  • The costs and inefficiencies of the traditional break/fix cycle
  • How automation has solved these challenges for UPenn
  • The 5 core business outcomes you can enjoy by automating the management of your physical security devices

Speakers: 

George Fox, Executive Director of Information and Security Technology at UPenn

George V. Fox is the Executive Director of Information and Security Technology for The University of Pennsylvania Division of Public Safety. Before returning home to Philadelphia to work at Penn, Mr. Fox worked at Harvard University as the Senior Information Technology and Security Officer for over a decade. During his tenure at Harvard, he sat on many university-wide committees focused on security and technology, was a co-chair for the ABCD Security Committee and also served as a Teaching Assistant for several security courses at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education. One of George’s major accomplishments to date is creating and executing the technical strategy for the centralization of security technology for Harvard University. George has extensive experience in security and IT and has earned his CISSP and several other certifications in logical security disciplines. George spends his free time laughing with his daughters, Celia and Sloane, and wife, Jaime. They are the proud owner of a Catahoula Leopard Dog, Gus.

Ido Jaffe, VP Customer Success at SecuriThings

Ido is a seasoned cyber security professional, with over 10 years of experience holding sales and technical positions. Prior to SecuriThings, Ido has led an incident response service at Nyotron, an endpoint security company, was part of the InfoSec team at Discount Bank and of the network team at a large ISP. Ido holds a BA in psychology and multiple information security certifications.

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