Cyber Risk in Higher Education Report

Universities carry a structural exposure most sectors don’t: deep reliance on shared platforms, decentralized departments, and financial flows that are hard to control centrally. Portfolio claims data shows exactly where that exposure concentrates, and why the same institutions tend to file claims year after year.

Inside the Report

• The shared-infrastructure problem: why higher ed sees roughly 50% more vendor and third-party incidents than the all-industry average, and how a single platform compromise can touch hundreds of institutions at once.
• The direct loss picture: what happens when you strip out vendor events. Email compromise, insider error, transfer fraud, and wrongful data collection each account for 11 to 12% of non-vendor claims.
• The third-party risk framework: where to start mapping shared EdTech and service-provider dependencies before a threat actor finds the exposure first.