--- title: Higher education is under siege, and fragmented security... description: Universities face escalating cyberattacks, averaging 4,388 attacks per organization per week in Q2 2025, a 24% year-over-year increase, with nine in ten... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/higher-education-is-under-siege-and-fragmented-security-is-making-it-harder-to-respond-8dqh3rfsu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Higher education is under siege, and fragmented security is making it harder to respond | daily.dev og:description: Universities face escalating cyberattacks, averaging 4,388 attacks per organization per week in Q2 2025, a 24% year-over-year increase, with nine in ten... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/higher-education-is-under-siege-and-fragmented-security-is-making-it-harder-to-respond-8dqh3rfsu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8dQh3RfSU.png og:image:alt: Higher education is under siege, and fragmented security is making it harder to respond og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Higher education is under siege, and fragmented security is making it harder to respond **[Rapid7 Cybersecurity Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/rapid7-blog)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Universities face escalating cyberattacks, averaging 4,388 attacks per organization per week in Q2 2025, a 24% year-over-year increase, with nine in ten institutions reporting a breach in the prior year and average breach costs of $10.22 million. The piece argues that multi-campus university systems compound this risk through fragmented security operations: individual campuses often run separate tools, teams, and incident response processes, which limits visibility, slows threat intelligence sharing, and leaves other campuses exposed when one detects an attack or vulnerability. It calls for shared visibility and coordinated detection and response across campuses while preserving local autonomy, and teases a follow-up on compliance burdens (FERPA, GLBA, HIPAA, CMMC) facing higher education. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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