{"id":247752,"date":"2026-05-17T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/higher-ed-has-a-cybersecurity-problem-and-technology-wont-fix-it\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:05:11","slug":"higher-ed-has-a-cybersecurity-problem-and-technology-wont-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/higher-ed-has-a-cybersecurity-problem-and-technology-wont-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher ed has a cybersecurity problem and technology won\u2019t fix it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Higher ed has a cybersecurity problem and technology won\u2019t fix it<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/thekoalanews.com\/higher-ed-has-a-cybersecurity-problem-and-technology-wont-fix-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-17 16:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: thekoalanews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Universities are hard up against a cybersecurity problem and it\u2019s more than a simple technology problem. It\u2019s a structural one. And in many ways, a human one.<\/p>\n

Across the entire education sector, security leaders are contending with environments that have grown organically over decades. Sprawling multi-cloud architectures, legacy infrastructure, decentralised faculties, and a constantly growing catalogue of applications and integrations. These environments were never designed to function as a unified whole, and yet the expectation \u2013 from regulators, leadership, researchers, and event students \u2013 is that they must be secured as if they were.<\/p>\n

The result is tension. Tension between ambition and reality.<\/p>\n

Without a clear view of what exists across the environment, security becomes reactive rather than strategic. And in institutions where new tools, platforms, and research applications are introduced constantly, achieving that visibility is itself a moving target. The goal, as many in the field recognise, is not simply to add more controls, but to create a model that actually works at scale.<\/p>\n

That is harder than it sounds.<\/p>\n

Universities operate in inherently decentralised environments. Faculties pursue their own priorities. Research teams move at their own pace. IT and security functions are expected to provide consistent protection across a landscape they do not fully control. This isn\u2019t a failure of planning, rather the nature of the institutions. But it creates real complexity for anyone trying to enforce policy uniformly or build a coherent security posture.<\/p>\n

What makes this challenge particularly difficult is that the technology layer is only part of the equation. The bigger challenge lies in managing change. Bringing together a wide spectrum, from highly capable developers to researchers and educators who don\u2019t have the time and resources to devote additional time outside of the classroom under a shared security culture requires something that no…<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Higher ed has a cybersecurity problem and technology won\u2019t fix it https:\/\/thekoalanews.com\/higher-ed-has-a-cybersecurity-problem-and-technology-wont-fix-it\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-17…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thekoalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jason-Baden.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-247752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247754,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247752\/revisions\/247754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}