Universities are confronting a new security gap as they migrate from campus network perimeters to cloud-based infrastructure. A new higher-education-focused cybersecurity explainer highlights that students, faculty, and researchers now access institutional systems from anywhere through SaaS platforms, cloud workloads, and third-party applications. That distribution dissolves traditional “castle-and-moat” visibility for security teams, making cloud visibility a critical requirement to detect threats across a fragmented environment. The piece positions governance around monitoring coverage—not just tooling—as key to protecting modern higher-ed ecosystems. For institutions, the immediate takeaway is operational: security teams need actionable visibility across cloud and third-party systems to prevent blind spots that can delay incident response and increase data exposure risk.