Universities are being pushed to reassess vendor and identity-risk controls after Instructure’s Canvas learning management system was hit by a breach described as the largest educational data breach on record. The incident, reported as affecting 275 million students, teachers, and staff across roughly 9,000 institutions, triggered rapid notification steps by some campuses, including real-time Canvas guidance from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Guidance emerging from the incident emphasizes the need for active monitoring of authentication prompts and account-recovery flows, along with tighter incident-response playbooks that coordinate IT, legal, and academic stakeholders. Because learning platforms sit at the center of student identity and data workflows, the breach reinforces that vendor compromise quickly becomes institutional compromise. For higher education leaders, the operational takeaway is to reduce time-to-detection for phishing and account-takeover attempts that use LMS interactions as lures, and to harden systems against credential abuse even when the original vendor breach is contained. The Canvas event also underscores the continuing shift toward continuous vendor risk management—especially for identity and access systems that support enrollment, instruction, and student support services.