Universities are consolidating IT monitoring and investing in new security capabilities as campuses scale cloud services and AI workloads. New Jersey Institute of Technology standardized on Splunk to centralize observability across on‑premises and cloud environments to detect incidents before they affect students and researchers. At the same time, AI vendors are marketing tools to help find and triage software vulnerabilities: Anthropic released Claude Code Security, an AI‑driven code auditor that can inspect codebases, rate severity and suggest fixes. Universities running research and critical infrastructure must now balance rapid AI adoption with proactive cyber defenses and human review. Who’s involved: NJIT’s IT leaders, Splunk, Anthropic and the AI vendor Frontier Red Team. Why it matters: rising complexity in research computing and the use of AI for both defense and offensive security makes observability and rigorous human oversight essential for campus continuity and compliance.