Why Are Universities Slow to Adopt Zero Trust? [ EdTech ]

The flava:

Higher education institutions have been slower to adopt zero-trust principles than their peers in other industries, according to a new survey — findings that indicate colleges and universities are leaving themselves vulnerable to the continuing onslaught of cyberattacks.

The 2024 CDW Cybersecurity Research Report polled IT professionals in education, government, private business and other fields to gauge how prepared organizations are to defend themselves. And while 78% of respondents in the education sector (encompassing both K–12 and higher ed) were confident that they had sufficient visibility into their cybersecurity landscape, and 61% felt either somewhat or very prepared to respond to a cybersecurity incident, far fewer could attribute their confidence to the introduction of tools and strategies that align with zero trust.

Just 26% of education respondents assessed their zero-trust maturity level as advanced or optimal, while 38% were in the initial stages and 18% hadn’t started toward zero trust at all. Those numbers veer sharply from the overall survey findings: 53% of respondents across all industries were at the advanced or optimal level, and only 9% had not yet started on their zero-trust journeys. . . .

The article:

https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2024/07/why-are-universities-slow-adopt-zero-trust