• Basic Hosted Firewall

    Virtual

    Lead by the MERLIN technical team; this session will be a "deep dive" on how to fully utilize the firewall options available to clients.  Strengthen your use of this important security tool before the 26/27 school year begins! Based on a Palo Alto Networks firewall and currently serves 34 educational organizations. It includes all the...

  • Web Content Filtering

    Virtual

    Lead by the MERLIN technical team; this session will be a "deep dive" on how to fully configure your system.  Strengthen your use of this important security tool before the 26/27 school year begins! Our web content filtering through Palo Alto allows partners to block or allow specific websites based on categories, URLs, or external...

  • Microsoft Security Operations Analyst

    SmartPark, Winnipeg

    Learn how to investigate, respond to, and hunt for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR and  Microsoft Defender for Cloud. In this course you will learn how to mitigate cyberthreats using these technologies. Specifically, you will configure and use Microsoft Sentinel as well as utilize Kusto Query Language (KQL) to perform detection, analysis, and...

  • Back-to-School

    Welcome back to our K-12 students and staff! Welcome to the fall/winter semester for our post-secondary students and staff!

  • Mystery Lake School District – Topic: AI

    Thompson

    MERLIN will be working with Mystery Lake School District on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI). Learn more about custom training sessions by visiting our Training webpage.

  • Microsoft Accessibility and Learning Tools

    SmartPark, Winnipeg

    Designed for users who have familiarity with Microsoft and are interested in learning about how these features can increase accessibility for themselves, the colleagues they supervise, or their students.    Basic navigation and features through an accessibility lens  Microsoft Learning Tools / Learning Accelerators  Immersive Reader  Dictate  Language Translation  Math Solver  Live Captions across tools  General...

  • Cybersecurity for Educators

    Virtual

    Designed for non-technical end-users (teachers, support staff, division-office, school/divisional admin, etc)  General information and reminders on best practice surrounding:   Password creation  When and where to use your work email versus personal  At-home and personal-device access to work systems  Work accounts on shared devices   Work accounts on public wifi  Best practices for classroom teachers and...