In recent months, OneIT Leaders and Associate Vice President & CIO Steve Fleagle have developed concepts for the future state of IT on the UI campus. Everyone will have to work together to realize that future and it will entail changes big and small. Today Fleagle announced two initial steps toward achieving the future state the OneIT Leaders have described:

• Proceeding with the merger of ITS Enterprise Services and Enterprise Infrastructure to unify teams that provide the bulk of commodity IT services to campus
• Making permanent Guy Falsetti’s role as the leader of the ITS Enterprise Infrastructure workgroups and adding formal responsibility for Enterprise IT Architecture as it relates to our campus infrastructure

In a series of recent future state planning retreats, OneIT leaders have developed high-level concepts for the culture, structure, and governance of IT on campus. A draft summary of the themes is now available. These concepts will be presented, along with project updates and other successes of collaboration, at a Town Hall for IT professionals and at listening posts for the broader campus community in April.

The Regents are creating a Board-level IT policy for the three state universities. The high-level policy covers three areas: security, acceptable use, and technology accessibility. 

All UI employees in an IT job classification will be assigned to complete a new SANS “Securing the Human” awareness training within the next six months. A “security aware” IT workforce is key to protecting institutional data and systems, as well as personal information. The fundamental guidance this training provides will be helpful as IT staff interact with the general workforce on campus.