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.
Unofficial AI use on campus reveals more about institutional gaps than misbehavior.
In 2025, ransomware attacks across the globe increased by 32% — but in the education sector, attacks appeared to plateau, according to the latest research from Comparitech.
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.