Posts by Kellen Flood

Education sector IT teams are facing unprecedented cybersecurity threats and compliance demands. For colleges and universities, cyber resilience is the ability to withstand, recover from, and adapt to cyberattacks and IT disruptions, without losing access to critical systems and data. Read more

As director of public sector sales for Veeam in the U.S., I spend my days talking with state agencies, county CIOs, school districts, and federal program managers who are under relentless pressure. Ransomware actors see public services as soft targets, compliance mandates tighten every budget cycle, and legacy infrastructure isn’t aging gracefully. When 911 dispatch, election platforms, or student information systems go dark, it’s front-page news and citizens feel it instantly. Read more

In my role at Veeam, I have the privilege of working closely with state, local, and education (SLED) organizations across the U.S. Every day, I hear first-hand the challenges IT teams face including tight budgets, aging infrastructure, rising cyberthreats, and the constant pressure to meet compliance mandates. It's not easy. In fact, with 87% of U.S. state and local governments reporting at least one cyber incident in the past two years, the stakes have never been higher. Read more

Veeam® Software, the leader in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery, today announced that its Veeam Data Cloud (VDC) offerings have been awarded the Texas Risk and Authorization Management Program (TX-RAMP) Level 2 security certification. This achievement underscores Veeam’s commitment to delivering industry-leading, secure cloud data protection solutions to public sector organizations across Texas. Read more

Building cyber resilience within educational organizations is imperative to protect sensitive student, faculty, and research data and ensure operational continuity. Academic institutions are shifting toward complex, hybrid, and multi-cloud architectures, making them more susceptible to cyber threats like phishing and ransomware. Read more

The cyber threat landscape has drastically changed over the past decade leaving city governments vulnerable to their technical debt, and cyberattacks from bad actors, insiders, and nation states. Read more

Cybersecurity regulations in the education sector can be challenging due to complex layers of both federal and state requirements. Read more