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The Rise of the CISO
4/1/2007
But UGA’s Gatewood has suggested a fourth long-term trend: He believes that security in higher education is becoming more like security in the private and military sectors. In particular, he foresees hiring more people with business and financial experience to augment traditional technology skills. Gatewood goes so far as to suggest that in the future, the IT security function may be split into two pieces: 1) an operational piece that would not fall under the CISO but, rather, revert back to the IT operations group; and 2) a strategic security piece that would fall under the CISO and might report to someone other than the CIO.
Regardless of how information security is organized, the function is only going to grow in importance and institutions must develop strategies for addressing these new security challenges. Information security as an afterthought is no longer a viable option.
Doug Gale is president of Information Technology Associates LLC (http://www.itassociates.org), an IT consultancy specializing in higher education. He has more than 30 years of experience in higher education as a faculty member, CIO, and research administrator. He can be reached at dgale@itassociates.org.
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