According to EDUCAUSE, higher-ed institutions are increasingly moving toward digital and cloud-based solutions. As this shift continues, data protection and security are becoming top priorities for school IT teams and their leaders. This means that understanding and leveraging HECVAT will quickly become a necessity for many institutions.
To work with these institutions, many are being required to show they meet information security requirements, namely the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit or HECVAT.