Five Privacy Issues Higher Education Institutions Should Consider Monitoring

Takeaways

• Higher education institutions have unique data privacy and cybersecurity challenges, including cross-border data transfer requirements.
• Institutions are subject to increased regulatory oversight.
• Assessing current data privacy and cybersecurity processes, data maintained, and data shared across the institution and with third parties can help ensure compliance with varying legal requirements.

Higher education institutions face unique data privacy and cybersecurity challenges. They are at the forefront of technological and research innovation and have become an increasingly attractive target for cybersecurity threats as a result. Additionally, colleges and universities have faced increased regulatory oversight, including global regulatory requirements on data privacy. In light of the challenges, institutions may want to consider how they are positioned on five critical privacy and cybersecurity issues.