Securin, the industry’s leading proactive security solutions provider, has announced its strategic partnership with Spectrum Technologies focused on strengthening cybersecurity for school districts, cities and counties across the El Paso region and beyond. Together, the two organizations are helping smaller communities access enterprise-level defenses against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.
With cyber threats against schools and municipalities on the rise, many districts and local governments face challenges due to limited resources and expertise. This partnership brings:
- Best-in-Class Proactive Defense: Spectrum and Securin provide best-in-class proactive cybersecurity solutions, offering Security leaders practical risk mitigation, ensuring systems are hardened before an attack occurs.
- Validated Resilience: providing diagnostic security evaluations that go beyond simple scanning to give verifiable proof that their controls work under attack, enabling them to confidently prioritize fixes and achieve true resilience.
- Building a Stronger Community: The collaboration fosters knowledge-sharing and peer-to-peer discussions that build stronger “cyber communities.”
Recent events hosted by Spectrum and Securin brought together IT leaders from San Elizario ISD, Clint ISD, Canutillo ISD, Fabens ISD, Tornillo ISD, Ft. Hancock ISD and nearby municipalities including the City of Socorro, City of Horizon, City of San Elizario and the Village of Vinton. These collaborations aim to ensure schools and local governments with limited budgets have access to the same protections as larger institutions.
The latest workshop from Securin will be held at InfraGard El Paso – ResponseCon25, which is taking place from Thursday, October 9 to Friday, October 10. Securin’s Sr. Director of Security Services, Barry Cogan, will be available for briefings and will lead a three hour hands-on Capture The Flag (CTF) competition focused on vulnerability chaining techniques.
This workshop emphasizes real-world attack scenarios and tasks participants with tackling four to six progressive challenges that demonstrate how attackers’ chain multiple vulnerabilities to escalate privileges, move laterally and achieve their objectives. Each challenge requires discovering and exploiting a series of vulnerabilities in sequence, with participants capturing flags at each successful exploitation step. The event concludes with a comprehensive demonstration walkthrough of all challenge solutions, providing valuable learning insights into both offensive techniques and defensive strategies.
Building on successful events like the Small Public School District IT Consortium and the upcoming InfraGard El Paso – ResponseCon25, Spectrum and Securin will continue to expand their partnership, offering resources, workshops and awareness-building initiatives to strengthen local cyber communities.
