Under attack: it’s time universities responded seriously to the worsening threat of cybercrime
…l seeing systems in use today that were first introduced as far back as the 1980s and 1990s. These outdated and often incoherent systems create a constant headache. Not only can they make the university tech infrastructure remarkably inflexible (a problem thrown into stark relief during the Covid-19 pandemic), but, as they no longer support the latest security patches, they offer inadequate protection from data loss, and are vulnerable to viruses,…