1 For the IT infrastructure team at the third-largest school district in Nebraska, staff resources are always tight. The 3,000 staff members of the Omaha-area Millard Public Schools serve 24,000 students across 35 schools. Every elementary student has access to an iOS tablet. Every middle school and high school student has an assigned PC laptop. Still, the district’s entire back-end infrastructure—from switches to telecommunications to security—is managed by a team of six. “Our biggest cybersecurity challenge is finding the hours in the day,” says Joe Kuehl, district technology manager for Millard Public Schools. “We are a small team when you consider that we are supporting around 30,000 endpoints. We know we are not getting additional money to bring more staff on board. So, as cy

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