Colleges and universities invest heavily in preventing cyber incidents, but even robust security programs cannot eliminate all disruptions. When identity services, cloud platforms, student systems, or critical vendors fail, technical recovery is only part of the problem. Institutional leaders must also decide what must continue, what can operate in a degraded state, what should stop, and who has the authority to make those decisions.

This webinar reframes cyber resilience around the institution’s essential services rather than individual technologies. Using practical higher education scenarios, participants will learn to identify minimum viable operations, expose hidden dependencies across systems, vendors, and people, and assign clear decision rights before an incident occurs.