“You can worry about intellectual property on a college campus, but a lot of the cases we’ve seen have not been that,” says Josephine Wolff, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Wolff says colleges are facing a tough choice: sacrifice security for the sake of access, or lock down their networks and undermine collaboration and sharing on campus. “I think what’s really at stake for the universities is trying to maintain this atmosphere of being open collaborative research institutions but to not be worried that they’re going to be kind of a gateway in for bad guys,” says Wolff.

Source: Cyber Ed: How higher education is re-evaluating a growing threat | Public Radio International