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SUMMARY:KHIPU Webinar: A Phased Roadmap for SOC Excellence in Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nPlease extend this invitation to any other interested parties at your university\n\n\n\n\nTOPIC\n\n\nA Phased Roadmap for SOC Excellence in Higher Education\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKER(S)\n\n\nGareth Trollip (Associate Director: Cyber Command)\nDarren Fisher (Regional Sales Manager)\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKER(S) BIO\n\n\nFor over 16 years, Darren has been at the forefront of technology sales in South Africa, specialising in transforming complex business challenges into strategic advantages. His passion is architecting cutting-edge cybersecurity, cloud, and network solutions for the enterprise, government, and education sectors, ensuring they are resilient, efficient, and future-proof.\nGareth Trollip has been in Cyber Security for 15 years with a focus in Managed Detection and Response and Automation.\n\n\n\n\nABSTRACT\n\n\nHigher Education institutions face a unique cybersecurity challenge – balancing open collaboration and research accessibility with the need to secure identities, sensitive data, and increasingly complex digital environments. For many institutions, the idea of building a Security Operations Centre can feel overwhelming, expensive, and difficult to operationalise.\nAt KHIPU, we believe the SOC journey should be practical, phased, and aligned to your institution’s existing investments – not a disruptive ‘rip and replace’ exercise.\nWhere is your institution on the SOC Journey?\nStage 1 & 2: Foundational Visibility & Monitoring\nStrengthen perimeter visibility and begin operating like a SOC by layering 24×7 monitoring and analyst expertise across your existing Microsoft Defender or Sentinel environments.\nStage 3 & 4: Behavioural Detection & Unified Security\nMove beyond traditional alerting with AI-driven endpoint protection and centralised visibility across network, cloud, and identity environments to detect and stop lateral movement.\nStage 5: The Autonomous SOC\nThe future state – an intelligent, automated SecOps environment powered by AI and orchestration, reducing manual workloads and enabling your IT and security teams to focus on strategic initiatives.\nKHIPU’s ‘Analyst-in-a-BOX’ Approach\nWe understand that many HEITSA members have already invested in security technologies such as EDR and SIEM platforms. Our approach enables institutions to enhance their existing environments with 24×7 monitoring, expert analysts, and automated XSOAR-driven workflows, helping teams reduce alert fatigue, improve response times, and mature their SOC capabilities without replacing current technology investments.\nJoin KHIPU & HEITSA as we unpack the SOC Journey and discuss how Higher Education institutions can strengthen cyber resilience through a phased and practical security approach. In this session, you will discover how Higher Education institutions can take a phased, realistic approach to SOC maturity while maximising existing security investments.\nWe look forward to sharing practical insights, real-world approaches, and actionable next steps to help your institution strengthen its cyber resilience journey.\n\n\n\n\nPlease extend this invitation to any other interested parties at your university\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://heitsa.tecdev.co.za/events/khipuframework28052028-soc/
ORGANIZER;CN=Liezel Prophitius:MAILTO:liezel@heitsa.ac.za
LOCATION:Online via MS Teams
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