Higher education’s shift to cloud infrastructure is forcing security teams to rethink what “perimeter defense” means as systems and data are accessed from everywhere. Reporting on cloud security in higher education highlights that campus firewalls and traditional network boundaries no longer provide sufficient protection when users and data are distributed across SaaS platforms, cloud workloads, and third-party applications. The visibility gap becomes a compliance and operational risk because incident detection and response depend on being able to map assets and observe behavior across environments. The practical stakes are underscored by real-world healthcare cyberattacks described in accompanying reporting, where hospital network outages can halt clinical workflows and worsen outcomes. For universities handling research data, student records, and critical operations, that same downtime risk is amplified by fragmented cloud toolchains.