Saturday, August 27, 2016

Thinking on a proposed security conference for schools

InfoSec Conference planning

Small conference for K-20 school info-security++.

Planning

  • TC Faculty involvement
  • Choose a date
  • Make flyer - list of contacts
  • Check dates with primary contacts

"K-20 EDU" Security Conference

  • ✓ Basic funding
  • ✓ Location and tech support
  • ✓ Some speakers
  • Narrow focus/theme
  • Flyer with graphic that shows the feel
  • Keynote speakers - that we can afford.

Goals:

  1. White paper that practitioners will go to for basic ideas of how to approach school security. Practitioners include teachers, architects, security professionals. Purpose is to balance between technology with in-depth human security aided by physical space including architecture and city planning.

  2. Goal is also to have fun, that the conference is small and not passive - interactive at a deep level.

  3. Provoke new approaches (beyond rent-a-cop.) and protection in depth. =

  4. Have a small conference that is more like a board game with close friends, that results in real transformation of the participants. 25 people?

Contribution guidelines

  • Speakers
  • Table Top Exercises
  • Publication

Who do I talk to?

  • Lawrence Furnival Enterprise/Security Architect at Teachers College, Columbia University, lrf10@tc.columbia.edu