Higher Education
We've curated 18 cybersecurity statistics about Higher education to help you understand how data breaches, phishing attacks, and evolving security practices are impacting universities and colleges in 2025.
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91% of campus IT leaders are open to or are already adopting AI-powered Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) with autonomous operations.
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.
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.
61% of higher education institutions experience network disruptions at least monthly.
18% of higher education institutions are fully aligned with Zero Trust principles.
67% of campus IT teams are currently understaffed.
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71% of campus leaders say outdated security technology puts student safety at risk.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.
35% of campus leaders say fraudulent enrollments are rising.