Source: Tertiary Education Commission
Last updated 11 September 2025
Last updated 11 September 2025
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In 2024 the Cyber Security for the Tertiary Sector initiative facilitated online webinars to help organisations in the New Zealand tertiary education sector to better understand cyber security and help them decide what steps they can take to become more secure.
In 2024 the Cyber Security for the Tertiary Sector initiative facilitated online webinars to help organisations in the New Zealand tertiary education sector to better understand cyber security and help them decide what steps they can take to become more secure.
The cyber security webinars, facilitated by Defend, were well attended and informative. Recordings of these sessions are below.
Recordings of webinars
Title
Overview
Phishing Awareness – YouTube, 31mins
Learn about the different kinds of phishing, how to spot a phish and what to do when phished.
Staying Safe Online – YouTube, 58mins
Learn the biggest threats to the tertiary sector, how hackers get in, and what you can do to keep your organisation and yourself safe.
Data Handling – YouTube, 31mins
Learn about what data to protect and how to keep data safe.
Zero Trust – YouTube, 33mins
Learn how to use conditional access, muti-factor authentication, Azure Identity Protection and Zero Trust Principles to reduce the likelihood of accounts being compromised.
Social Engineering – YouTube, 38mins
Find out about the different methods that threat actors use to manipulate you to do the hard work for them.
Passwords and Authentication – YouTube, 38mins
Learn more about different kinds of authentication, what makes a bad or good password, multi factor authentication (MFA) and new developments.
Additional educational videos and content from Microsoft
These workshops, run by Microsoft, provide targeted information on what to do to make your organisation more cyber secure. They are primarily aimed at tertiary education organisations (TEOs) with access to E5/A5 Microsoft licensing. We’ve outlined the groups most likely to benefit from the workshops, below:
Title
Overview
Links
Most likely to benefit
Security Foundations
Setting the stage for Zero Trust, MFA and the basics on Identity based protection and why.
Understanding and Getting Started with ZERO TRUST – YouTube, 57mins
IT professionals, security admins, identity, and access admins, CISOs, security managers.
CISO and Cloud Security Architectures – MCRA
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) training helps accelerate security program modernisation with reference to strategies built using Zero Trust principles. Modular videos cover strategic initiatives, roles and responsibilities, success metrics, maturity models and more.
Individual CISO Workshop Videos – Microsoft
MCRA playlist explaining each key topic in the MCRA – YouTube
Security and risk managers, CISOs, IT managers.
M365 Security
What do we get with M365 Security?
An overview of what is available and what you need to plan to implement as a baseline.
Video on using Defender M365 – YouTube
Full playlist for Defender for Endpoint – YouTube
Key concepts and how to guides – Get Security Done
IT professionals, security admins, identity and access admins, IT developers.
Cloud and Hybrid Security
Using Defender for Cloud to manage your multi cloud security requirements.
Video introducing Defender for Cloud – YouTube
Full playlist for Defender for Cloud – YouTube
Defender for Cloud helps you simplify your cloud security management and improve your security outcomes. Learn more at: Defender for Cloud – Microsoft.
IT professionals, security admins, identity and access admins, IT developers.
