Higher Education Is Under Siege, and Fragmented Security Is Making It Harder to Respond
Rapid7, Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
Rapid7 on why universities are hard to secure and how fragmented tooling slows their response to rising attacks.
Rapid7 examines why higher education is difficult to secure: universities hold large volumes of sensitive student, financial, health and research data while supporting open networks, distributed users, legacy infrastructure and complex cloud environments.
It cites an average of 4,388 cyberattacks per university per week in Q2 2025, up 24% year over year.
Rapid7 argues that fragmented security tools make it harder for stretched teams to detect and respond to these threats.