A comfortable working relationship between mainline IT staff and cybersecurity professionals has been crucial to keeping Ohio University running through the COVID-19 pandemic, speakers said last week. Stephen Hoffer, an information security engineer at the the 33,000-student school, said university systems were able to survive the shift to mostly remote operations over the past 13 months because his team works closely and cooperatively with Ohio University’s information technology office. Benjamin Freed has more.

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