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Re: Size of IT Security Department


From: Dewitt Latimer <dewitt () ND EDU>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:12:59 -0500

For those schools who have participated in the Educause Core Data survey,
you can bench yourself against numerous other schools along this axis (and
many more).

-d


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Campoe" <campoe () USF EDU>
To: <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 10:19 AM
Subject: [SECURITY] Size of IT Security Department


Hello folks

I am watching the discussions on Residence Halls and a question came to
mind. How many people are usually working in your security department?

We have about 3,000 students in our Residence Halls, 16,000 active
machines during the day, and 6,600 faculty/staff on campus. Being
proactive in terms of training, burning CDs, etc, is almost out of the
question since we have a total of 40 hours full time and 40 hours part
time invested on security. Surprisingly enough, we managed to do a
pretty good job containing everything that hit us during the past weeks,
  at the expense of some VERY long work days.

I am about do a presentation to high level University officers on the
state of campus security and would like to make some comparissons.

Thanks

Alex


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J. Alex Campoe
Associate Director, Systems Group and Data Security Administrator
Academic Computing, University of South Florida
Phone: (813) 974-1796

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