Should cybersecurity be a college president's priority?

Postsecondary institutions are often targets of cyber attacks because campuses house large amounts of sensitive financial and personal data. Further, institutions typically maintain an open-access culture and lack centralized information control, making them particularly susceptible to data breaches, a report from Deloitte finds.Despite their susceptibility, the report's researchers found that institutions remain behind on security for three reasons: The pathway to presidency is primarily through academia, which doesn't offer exposure to IT expertise; demands on the president are wide-ranging and leave little time for attention on technically complicated cyber issues; and chief information officers are often not part of the president's cabinet, with only 56% of institutions surveyed in a 2016 EDUCAUSE study reporting CIOs or equivalents having this role.