Inside a Campus Security Program: A Conversation with Lafayette College

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Cybersecurity isn’t just IT’s job anymore. If your office handles student records, aid files, or payment data, it’s yours too.

JR Johnson of Triaxiom Security, a division of SIG, gets paid to break into college networks so attackers can’t. Bill Thompson is the one keeping them out at Lafayette College, where he’s Director of IT Infrastructure and Cybersecurity. Same problems, opposite chairs.

They’ll get into the attack paths that still work on college campuses, why higher ed is such an attractive ransomware target, whether MFA is still enough, and what generative AI has changed about phishing and the unapproved tools already running on your network. Plus the question that outlasts any single threat: what every president and CFO should understand about cyber risk.

Technical enough for the people running the program. Clear enough for everyone else accountable for the data. You’ll leave with one concrete action you can take this quarter that measurably lowers risk.