Amidst COVID-19, higher education institutions must constantly be attentive to the latest solutions and defenses in cybersecurity. To protect and accommodate the needs of their students, staff, and larger campus ecosystem, Identity and access management must be amongst their highest priorities. In today’s market, digital transformation—improvement, standardization, and overall modernization of technology—is a key component to driving successful infrastructure and agility—across campuses. The challenges stalling the progress of identity The challenge, however, is that most institutions don’t have the core components necessary to achieve modernization, namely an integration platform or data governance. And yet, because they house valuable information across a wide array of networks, education organizations are attractive targets for malicious activity. Therefore, many organizations are moving to more modern solutions, like the cloud, from both an application and infrastructure perspective. Here are just a few examples of common problems students and institutions face: Too many accounts, IDs and.