I recently had the privilege of speaking at a higher education security conference — an experience that felt a lot like coming home. This community is where I got my start in the security industry. Some of the early projects I led were for sprawling college campuses trying to balance openness with accountability, freedom with safety, and autonomy with structure. I’ve made mistakes, seen promising rollouts fall apart, and learned, sometimes the hard way, what it actually takes to make secu...
