Referencing the pace and scale of change has become a cliché. However, nothing becomes a cliché without first being true – and the pace and scale of technological change continues to surprise us all, whether we care to admit it, or not.
These are challenging times for Higher Education. Decreasing student enrolment, increasingly squeezed finances, a cost-of-living crisis, maintaining the quality of educational provision, and the transition to a digital learning environment to list just a few.
There are two thought processes at work here: “sweating the asset” and, secondly, we’re waiting for the Next Big Thing”. When budgets are tight, neither is a surprise, but in the world of cyber security this has the potential to be a real risk to your organisation.
Higher education is neither immune to (nor excluded from) the way emerging technology is transforming the way we work and live.
The Higher Education sector has found itself the focus of some very unwanted attention. With a unique combination of critical personal information and highly valuable research data, more and more cyber criminals are focusing their efforts on compromising university infrastructure.
In the last 18 months cyber-attacks on Higher Education have risen by 75% according to National Cyber Security Centre.