Universities are moving from incident response to broader security governance after a reported May data breach involving Instructure’s Canvas learning management system. Coverage notes the breach affected an estimated 275 million students, teachers, and staff across about 9,000 education institutions. The reporting also points to a fast-growing secondary threat: AI-enabled deepfakes used for credential theft, reputational attacks, and voice-clone scams that target university leaders and staff. Higher education institutions face a converging risk landscape where cyberattacks, misinformation, and student harm can overlap through social engineering. University leaders are responding with rapid user advisories and protective steps around account actions and password resets, while policymakers and IT teams increasingly focus on vendor risk management practices—especially for core learning platforms. The incident underscores an operational reality for higher education: protecting student data now requires both technical controls and institutionwide procedures for verifying internal communications and account-triggering requests.