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Re: number of IT security staff


From: Gary Dobbins <dobbins () ND EDU>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 07:33:05 -0500

Same here, esp. the part about "we find 'em, they clean 'em."

- student population is ~10,000
- fac/staff about 2-3,000
- director also can't keep self from trying to do tech stuff ;-)
- 1, soon 3, tech staff

But no grad students.  We get significant help from all areas of the OIT,
especially our Help Desk, departmental IT support personnel, plus some
students out there helping at the front lines of ResNet.



Gerry Sneeringer wrote:
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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