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Four Important Trends in Information Technology and their Impact on Organizational Security and
Privacy
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer
University System of Georgia
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• Shortage of IT personnel• Clouds and Economies of Scale• Consumerization of IT• Data, Big Data, Location-based computing and
Data-Driven Decision-Making
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• Less folks + less qualified folks = more work.
• More salary will be necessary to attract folks.
• Internal salary inequities will be difficult to manage.
• You may need to take more risk in hiring employees (skillset, turnover, non-dedicated resources, etc.).
Implications
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Advantages of Statewide Network
• Economies of Scale
• Proactive Growth
• Campus Agility
• Traffic Prioritization
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• Clouds and Economies of Scale– Market pressures are driving consolidation and
moving IT services to private or public clouds.– Economy of scale pricing example: the cost of 35
colleges and universities HR contract is much less than the cost of two R1 institutions (Georgia Health Sciences University and Georgia Tech) combined.
– Library consortiums are the same.
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HR
•Shared Services
•32/35 centralized
•Outsourced to ADP
Fin
•GeorgiaFIRST•32/35 at ITS•34/35 PeopleSoft
LMS
•GeorgiaVIEW•31/35 at ITS soon to be 34/35
•34/35 BlB/D2L
SIS
•GeorgiaBEST•8/35 at ITS•34/35 Banner•520 GA Mods
BI
•USG123•Being rebuilt•35/35 at ITS•Not fully utilized
NET
•PeachNet•35/35 at ITS•Extensive external state participation
LIB
•GALILEO & GIL•35/35 centralized
• Extensive external participation
State Ed Ecosystem
USG Educational Cloud
Race to the Top
Public Cloud
Public Cloud State Ed Ecosystem
State Educational Cloud
Now
Soon
Longer
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Implications
• Integration and protection of corporate data is going to be difficult.
• All the eggs in one basket requires a really safe and secure basket.
• Some standardization (lack of control) is required.
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Consumerization of IT– Bring Your Own Device will change
campus culture, security, and instructional delivery
– Managed/Unmanaged Applications
– Private/Work Split
– Who Owns the data?
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• How much loss of control is acceptable?
• Protection of the data
• Change Management of Personnel
• Complexity is about to increase (need endpoint management and federated identity management)
Implications
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• Data….• Big Data…..• Location-based Big Data…..• Big Data Driven Decision Making…..
“On the Internet, the First Amendment is a local ordinance,” said Fred H. Cate, a law professor at Indiana University.
What are folks saying about your organization on Facebook?What are doing about what they are saying?Do you even know?
Need decisions nowRequires a reportReport requires a collectionCollection requires months
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• Unknown: We don’t need no stink’in data governance.
• Jack Burton: It is all in the reflexes.
• Steve Wright: I don’t want to own everything. I would not know where to put it.
Implications
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Questions, Comments,A Conversation
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer
University System of Georgia