2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Cybersecurity and Privacy Edition

Published:: Monday, September 30, 2024
: Briefs, Case Studies, Papers, Reports

Author(s) and Contributors:: Author(s): Jenay Robert Nicole Muscanell Nichole Arbino Mark McCormack Jamie Reeves

Source(s) and Collection(s):: Sources(s): EDUCAUSE Publications Collection(s): Horizon Report

ParentTopics:: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Budgets Compliance Cyber Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Cybersecurity Policy Data Privacy Data Security Encryption Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act) Information Security Governance Intrusion Detection and Prevention Privacy Security Awareness Security Risk Management Vulnerability Assessment and Management Zero Trust

This report profiles the trends and key technologies and practices shaping the future of cybersecurity and privacy, and envisions a number of scenarios for that future. It is based on the perspectives and expertise of a global panel of leaders from across the higher education landscape.

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The Future of Cybersecurity and Privacy

These are, in many ways, tumultuous times. Global political movements and ideologies continue to erode social ties and disrupt state and national legislative processes. Wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East threaten to destabilize the global order. And new AI-powered technologies are evolving at breakneck speed, offering the world both the promise of new utopian capabilities and the threat of dystopian collapse.

Against this backdrop of seismic change, higher education cybersecurity and privacy professionals must navigate new questions around what needs to be done to keep our institutions and our students safe and secure. This report summarizes expert panelist discussions on these and other emerging trends and offers reflections on where the future of higher education may be headed.

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Check out our video summary of the Horizon Report.

Trends: Scanning the Horizon

This section of the report describes the trends that are going to shape the future of cybersecurity and privacy.

Trends Video Summary

Key Technologies & Practices

This section of the report details six key technologies and practices that will have a significant impact on cybersecurity and privacy. Included in this section are college and university exemplar projects demonstrating the impact of the technologies and practices.

Learn more about the key technologies and practices on page 19 >

Key Technologies & Practices Video Summary

Scenarios

This report envisions a number of scenarios for the future of cybersecurity and privacy for which we can start to prepare today.

Read the possible future scenarios on page 35 >

Scenarios Video Summary

Expert Panel

The 2024 Horizon panel comprised 39 higher education experts from around the globe.

See the Expert Panel on page 46 >

Reports and Supporting Materials

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Issues, Technologies, and Trends Resources

Higher education leaders and decision makers use the annual Issues, Technologies, and Trends resources—the EDUCAUSE Top 10, Trend Watch report, and the Horizon Reports—to know what's important and where to focus in their IT planning and management activities. When viewed together these resources provide more complete and nuanced guidance on institutional IT priorities.

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