It’s been nearly a year since my wife and I bought our home in the Village of Oregon, Wisconsin. Methodically, room by room, she has been decorating and furnishing rooms with my home office being …
The CISO’s Perspective: Managing cybersecurity risk
June 21, 2016 Inside cybersecurity circles and in some IT and Policy forums we have been talking about developing a Risk Management Framework, or RMF, for many months. I am happy to announce we are …
The CISO’s Perspective
This marks my first public blog post about the University of Wisconsin – Madison’s approach to securing our IT infrastructure to promote the availability of systems and data, ensure the integrity of computing operations and …
Founding IT Connects (2015)
The newly formed IT Connects steering committee and co-chairs held a kickoff with sponsor Bruce Maas on December 7, 2015. There were 6 original groups in IT Connects: I & T Leadership Conference IT Leadership …
Popping open the umbrella (2015)
Brandon, Deb, and Brenda looked for other Universities that had models for organizing IT community engagement and partnership. Penn State and NYU had umbrella structures for organizing IT professional development that inspired Brandon, Brenda, and …
Topic Series Pilot Program (2014)
They decided to pilot a topic series for ITLP alumni to research and deliver recommendations addressing critical information and technology issues on campus. The goals of the pilot were to: Leverage the IT Leadership Program- …
IT Leadership Conference and ITLP Forward (2013)
The IT Leadership Program Forward was created to make the MOR IT Leadership Program’s process clear, supplement program discussions, and set the expectation that graduates would give back to the IT community. Dan, Brenda, Brandon, …
With a little help (2013)
To start on their initiative they sought experience and support. They reached out to Dan Jacobsohn, School of Education CIO, who was a former MOR program graduate and had experience spearheading two leadership initiatives at …
An ambitious trio (2013)
When Bruce Maas became DoIT CIO in 2011, he provided funding for anyone in the IT community to participate in MOR IT leadership professional development programs. After the 2012-2013 MOR program Brenda Spychalla, Assistant Director …