63% of CISOs describe themselves as not very confident in the ability of local government and public higher education to secure public data, up from 35% in 2022.

52% of campus IT leaders cite cybersecurity and risk exposure as the top network challenge, surpassing network performance and reliability.

67% of campus IT teams are currently understaffed.

61% of higher education institutions experience network disruptions at least monthly.

18% of higher education institutions are fully aligned with Zero Trust principles.

33% of all business email compromise in higher education is lateral.

Nearly one in eight phishing attacks that reach student inboxes originate from compromised internal accounts.

6% of campus IT teams describe themselves as adequately staffed to work proactively.

11% of higher education institutions that experience disruptions report outages occurring weekly or daily.

68% of IT leaders at higher education institutions want "built-in" security in their network architectures.

31% of IT leaders at higher education institutions cite infrastructure complexity as the leading barrier to Zero Trust implementation.

91% of campus IT leaders are open to or are already adopting AI-powered Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) with autonomous operations.

35% of campus leaders say fraudulent enrollments are rising.

50% of higher education institutions are monitoring transactions in real-time to combat fraud.

71% of campus leaders say outdated security technology puts student safety at risk.

71% of higher education institutions demonstrate confidence, saying their school is prepared for a major cyber incident.

37% of campus leaders say fraudulent enrollments are declining.

28% of campus leaders say physical and digital security still operate in silos on their campus.