CrowdStrike’s 2025 Threat Hunting Report found that AI tools are being weaponized and directly targeted, while cloud intrusions surge 136% in early 2025.
Surprisingly, on many of our campuses, even the IT leadership responsible for the lion's share of technology deployments doesn't realize the extent to which the institution is dependent on open source. And that lack of awareness can be a threat to campuses.
A new report has identified significant security vulnerabilities in the Model Context Protocol (MCP), technology introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 to facilitate communication between AI agents and external tools.
We've followed Stephen Laster's career through more than two decades at organizations leading significant directions and change in technology and education markets. Here, we ask Laster for an update since taking the helm as CEO at Panopto this past May, 2025.