Building digital resilience in higher education

How IT complexity, rising costs, and concentrated dependencies are reshaping risk for educational institutions.

Higher education IT is more consolidated at the core and more fragmented at the edges than ever. Rising costs are delaying modernization, and concentrated vendor dependencies are adding systemic risk. Cybersecurity spending is up, but recovery investment is lagging.

In this industry sponsored infographic, Ruthbea Yesner, Group Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector at IDC, outlines:

• Why higher education IT is both more consolidated and more fragmented
• How rising costs and talent shortages stall modernization
• Why cybersecurity spending is outpacing recovery investment
• Four steps to building institutional resilience

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“ Resilience is an institutional challenge, not just an IT problem. The institutions that begin this work now will be better positioned to absorb the disruptions ahead and to use them as a catalyst for long-overdue change*”.

– Ruthbea Yesner, Group Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector at IDC