Higher education faces a difficult security equation. Universities hold large volumes of sensitive student, financial, health, and research data while supporting open networks, distributed users, legacy infrastructure, and increasingly complex cloud environments. Attackers have taken notice, and the pressure on security teams continues to grow.
Higher education is under siege, and fragmented security is making it harder to respond
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