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64% of healthcare organizations are open to adopting a Network-as-a-Service model to simplify operations and strengthen security.

Only 38% of healthcare organizations report partial or full Zero Trust implementation, while 26% are aware of Zero Trust but have no concrete plans.

20% of healthcare organizations treat AI-driven automation as essential to running their networks.

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

67% of campus IT teams are currently understaffed.

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

38% of healthcare organizations experience network or security disruptions at least weekly.

66% of healthcare IT teams are strained or firefighting while only 18% are comfortably managing network operations.

Nearly 85% of healthcare organizations experience periodic network or security disruptions that impact patient care and patient privacy.

27% of healthcare organizations cite cybersecurity threats and ransomware as the #1 network challenge, 23% cite staffing shortages and lack of expertise, 20% cite rising operational and compliance costs, 16% cite network reliability impacting clinical systems, and 15% cite aging or fragmented infrastructure.

Only 20% of healthcare organizations are confident their network can contain a cyber incident across IoT, medical, clinician, and guest devices, while 61% are not confident or only slightly confident.

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

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.