TROY UNIVERSITY
“AI HAS ALLOWED US TO BE FAR MORE PROACTIVE INSTEAD OF REACTIVE”
Dr William Greg Price Vice Chancellor & CISO Troy University
Having served on a local school board for more than a quarter of a century, Greg is deeply invested in making the experience of students as good as it can be.
“ Education is a big passion for me,” he says,“ and I want to be able to see people succeed through their educational endeavours. If we’ re able to use technology tools such as AI and the abundance of data that we have to identify at-risk students and facilitate their success, that’ s a win for everyone.”
The same principle applies in cybersecurity. AI has given TROY’ s security team the opportunity to work through vast volumes of transactional data and identify anomalous or questionable activity before it escalates into a full incident.
“ We’ re not reacting to activity,” Greg explains.“ We’ re able to observe things that perhaps are questionable well before an incident, and address it in a proper fashion.”
The advantages of hybrid cloud technology TROY’ s infrastructure is a testament to patient, pragmatic evolution. Before commercial cloud computing became widely available, the university had, in effect, built its own private cloud.
It maintained data centres in geographically diverse locations to reduce latency, which improved access for international students and gave the college greater resilience in the event of a failure at any one site.
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