Securing Academic Partnerships: Overcoming Identity Challenges in Collaborative Higher Education Environments

Collaboration is at the heart of every university. Whether it’s connecting across campuses, working with other universities, or teaming up with research partners, making sure these connections are seamless is crucial for advancing learning and research. But keeping collaboration secure can be a real challenge for institutions of any size. There are several reasons why this gets complicated, like: - The risk of exposing sensitive data when working together - Juggling access rights across different identity systems - Struggling to integrate smoothly with partner systems - Navigating tricky compliance and data sovereignty issues - Maintaining secure collaboration, even as things scale In this webinar recording, Brandon Nolan, Senior Director, and Corey Lee, Microsoft Security CTO for Education dive into the biggest collaboration challenges universities face. They look at how to improve your identity systems to better protect your users and data while making sure collaboration—whether internal or with external partners like research institutions or government bodies—remains secure and effortless.