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We talk with Ed Skoudis, president of the SANS Technology Institute, about emerging attack trends and their impact on higher education, the future of cybersecurity and AI, and more.
04/28/2026
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Higher education IT leaders are navigating a quiet but consequential transition: Experienced team members are retiring or leaving for private-sector roles, and the teams replacing them are smaller, newer, and often stretched thin. The result is a structural shift in how technology decisions are made, executed, and sustained.
04/23/2026
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Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, an updated large language model that it says outperforms its predecessor on software engineering tasks, image analysis, and multi-step autonomous work.
04/21/2026
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OpenAI is expanding safety efforts beyond its walls with a new Safety Fellowship that will fund external researchers to study AI risks.
04/16/2026
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Public universities with over 50,000 students face the looming April 24, 2026, deadline to comply with new Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II standards. The urgency many feel is warranted: Implementation timelines are tight and the scope of compliance is extensive.
04/16/2026
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A recent report from Microsoft warns about two active cybersecurity threats: a fast-moving ransomware campaign and a Russian espionage operation that abuses small office and home office routers to monitor victims' network traffic.
04/13/2026
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Microsoft researchers recently uncovered a large-scale, sophisticated AI-driven phishing campaign that uses automation and legitimate authentication processes to compromise accounts more effectively than traditional phishing attacks.
04/13/2026
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Universities aim to be ready to turn new technologies and practices into opportunities for innovation and ultimately, ROI on the institution's investment in wireless infrastructure.
04/13/2026
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Digital transformation has made the Clery Act's physical safety mandates a cybersecurity compliance issue.
04/09/2026
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Richer countries face greater exposure to AI-driven changes than developing countries, which are less exposed to AI but risk being left behind, according to a joint report from the International Labour Organization and World Bank.
04/08/2026
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In a systemwide survey of more than 94,000 faculty, staff, and students, California State University recently documented widespread AI use across its 22 campuses.
04/06/2026
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Two of the bigger authentication announcements to come out of the recent RSA Conference both point in the same direction: Organizations need a more flexible, unified approach to identity security, especially as AI agents start acting alongside human workers.
04/06/2026
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AI-powered automation platform Opkey has announced Release Advisor, a new agentic AI product aimed at helping Oracle Fusion and Workday customers analyze release updates, determine impact, and generate testing plans for their environments.
04/02/2026
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Unhealthy security systems rarely fail overnight. They erode slowly, masked by routine and good intentions. But institutions have a critical responsibility to remain vigilant and to measure, test, and listen.
04/02/2026
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In a world shaped by rapid technological change and shifting economic forces, staying curious and committed to learning is the most powerful way to stay prepared.
04/01/2026