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Students Remain Higher Ed\u2019s Cybersecurity Weak Link<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/tech-innovation\/2026\/06\/09\/students-remain-higher-eds-cybersecurity-weak-link<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-09 03:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Just 22\u00a0percent of chief technology officers say students at their institution receive adequate cybersecurity training, according to Inside Higher Ed\u2019s 2026 Survey of Campus Chief Technology\/Information Officers. By comparison, 68\u00a0percent say faculty and staff receive adequate training. Another 70\u00a0percent say their institution\u2019s leadership prioritizes cybersecurity investments.<\/p>\n

Students constituting a gap in their institutions\u2019 cybersecurity ecosystems is nothing new. In last year\u2019s survey, just 26\u00a0percent of CTOs reported requiring student cybersecurity training, versus 79\u00a0percent for faculty and 86\u00a0percent for administrative staff. <\/p>\n

More on the Survey<\/h4>\n

On Wednesday, June 10, at 2 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed will present a free webcast featuring expert panelists to discuss the survey findings and what it takes to lead on technology in today\u2019s rapidly shifting postsecondary landscape. Register for that conversation here, even if you can\u2019t attend live.<\/p>\n

Inside Higher Ed\u2019s 2026 Survey of Campus Chief Technology\/Information Officers was conducted by Hanover Research. The survey included 130 technology leaders, mostly from public and private nonprofit institutions, for a margin of error of eight\u00a0percentage points. Download the full results here.<\/p>\n

But cybersecurity threats to higher education are only increasing, as the recent attack impacting the Canvas learning management system underscored. And artificial intelligence promises to accelerate this trend. Convincing phishing attacks, for instance, are much easier to draft, personalize and deploy at scale with AI. Agentic tools represent new risks. And models have also been used to discover and weaponize \u201czero-day\u201d vulnerabilities\u2014those previously unknown to developers\u2014in software systems. This spring, AI giant Anthropic said it was withholding its own Claude Mythos model from public release due to its unprecedented ability to exploit such weaknesses. That reportedly…<\/p>\n

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