Report by Nile
The State of Networking & Security in Higher Education
Key Findings
18% of higher education institutions are fully aligned with Zero Trust principles.
67% of campus IT teams are currently understaffed.
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.
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.