Re: number of IT security staff

[Gerry Sneeringer <sneeri () UMD EDU>]

At University of Maryland:

We have 35,000 students.

Our IT Security Office breakdown:

 1 Director/ITSO (who shouldn't be doing technical stuff,
but can't help himself)

 1 (soon to be 3) technical staff (incident handling,
assessments)

 1/2 of a fulltimer plus 2 grad students working in the ethical
use/user awareness area which includes performing DMCA grunt
work.

This arrangement only works (as much as it works) thanks to a ton
of decentralized help from IT staff in the departments and
colleges.  We spot 'em, they clean 'em.

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Kathy Bergsma wrote:
> In order to help justify expansion of the UF IT security team,
> I would like to know the number of staff dedicated to IT
> security at comparable institutions. Please respond with the
> name of your university, the number of students, and the number
> of dedicated IT security staff.

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Gerry Sneeringer
Director, IT Security
University of Maryland
Office of Information Technology

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