Guest Segment: LSU CISO Sumit Jain on Securing 100,000+ Users, the Move Off Mainframe, and Building Student-Powered SOCs
Interview Highlights:
The Scale of LSU Security: Sumit Jan's 14-person team protects roughly 20,000 endpoints, 6,000 servers, and over 100,000 users across LSU's identity management, incident response, and ERP security. Unlike a single corporation, LSU functions like a multi-company organization—academics, research, athletics, and community relations all require different, case-by-case security approaches rather than one uniform policy.
Goodbye Mainframe: LSU fully retired its legacy mainframe system in 2025, migrating student records, registration, and grades to Workday, alongside a parallel…
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