Re: Recommendations On Cabinet Level InfoSec position

[art <stgeorge () UNM EDU>]

Here at the U of New Mexico we are close to advertising for an information
security officer, functionally the mosr senior one on campus, ans this
individual will report initially to the highest ranking IT official on
campus (currently an Associate VP), but eventually to the CIO when that
position is created.

Art St. George

--On Wednesday, July 09, 2003 5:25 PM -0500 Dan Updegrove
<updegrove () MAIL UTEXAS EDU> wrote:

> Jim,
>
> It's hard for me to imagine that a President's group would have advocated
> another direct report, especially in a domain that most of them would
> consider to be (as William F. Buckley said of ocean sailing) "90% boredom
> and 10% terror."
>
> IMHO, the appropriate reporting line for ISO is the to CIO -- and the CIO
> should be at the cabinet level. I simply cannot imagine that an ISO would
> receive from a president the supervision and support needed to be
> effective. In practice, such a "cabinet level" ISO would report to a
> "deputy to the president," who is also too busy and non-technical to
> provide support.
>
> Regards,
> Dan Updegrove
>
>
> At 05:15 PM 7/9/2003, Jim Moore wrote:
> > At the Educause security professionals workshop, I believe that someone
> > mentioned that a college/university presidents group had a task force
> > which made the recommendation that a cabinet level position for
> > Information Security be created at colleges/universities.
> >
> > Does anyone have a reference?
> >
> > Does anyone have the text of the report/recommendation letter?
> >
> > Jim
> > --
> > --
> > Jim Moore, CISSP, IAM
> > Information Security Officer
> > Rochester Institute of Technology
> > 13 Lomb Memorial Drive
> > Rochester, NY 14623-5603
> > Telephone: (585)475-5406
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> >
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