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for them to attend Guilford Technical Community College . Therein lies the importance of your messaging and how you differentiate yourself from other colleges .”
GTCC has , as a result , increased its online presence and developed the systems that allow students to complete their coursework online .
Horn says : “ I think that the pandemic has just accelerated this transition – I think that these thoughts , ideas , movements and strategies were already there , but that COVID has acted as a catalyst . So , our college is focused on that delivery , while retaining our traditional infrastructure and our campuses , which are going to continue to be available for the students in the local area .
“ We ' re also going to continue to look at our strategy as to how we deliver online , what we deliver online and how we differentiate ourselves from other schools .”
Cybersecurity and partnership with Arctic Wolf Speaking on the college ’ s partner ecosystem , Horn underlines that , most importantly , GTCC looks for organisations that closely understand GTCC ’ s business , strategy , audience and demographic .
“ What we are specifically looking for is alignment ,” he says . “ We don ' t want a company that we just write a cheque to every month or year . Vendor partners mean something to us ; they are organisations that we have frequent conversations and meetings with and where we talk about strategy .
“ And I think that ' s one of the things that we saw with Arctic Wolf .” Arctic Wolf provides a critical managed detection and response ( MDR ) framework , which plays a crucial role in the cybersecurity and risk management of GTCC ’ s systems .
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