This Spotlight focuses on insider threats in higher education, where sensitive research data, intellectual property, and student records are at stake. Universities face unique risks due to open collaboration, decentralized IT, and high turnover of students, faculty, and staff. Insider threats may arise from careless actions (misdirected email), compromised accounts, or malicious insiders exfiltrating data before departure. The paper stresses identity and behavioral monitoring, adaptive DLP, and role-based access control to mitigate these challenges. It highlights Proofpoint’s people-centric solutions as enabling visibility into insider risk without disrupting collaboration. Ultimately, higher education institutions are urged to balance academic openness with proactive security to protect t

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