Category: General Announcements

Ohio State made huge strides in the development of an Ohio State Privacy Program in 2018.  First, the team worked diligently to tackle a new European privacy regulation by training dozens of Ohio State staff members, launching a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) working group, and creating and piloting a new GDPR Inventory Tool. 

GDPR is a new data protection privacy standard for individuals within the European Union (EU) that went into effect on May 25, 2018. It also applies to the transfer of personal data to organizations outside the EU, including Ohio State.

From Autumn 2018 to Summer 2020, wireless coverage will be expanding at Ohio State, including Columbus campus, regional campuses and extension locations. During this time, several new access points will be added to buildings as well as outdoor structures to expand overall square footage coverage.

The Information Security Executive® (ISE®) awards program recently recognized Chief Information Security Officer Helen Patton as ISE® North American Executive of the Year in the Academic/Public division. She was honored during the ISE® North America Leadership Summit and Awards held in Chicago on November 8-9.

On Oct. 29, Ohio State welcomed Holly Drake into the newly created position of Chief Privacy Officer. Data privacy needs are increasingly far reaching, spanning the worlds of both regulation and data ethics. In this new role, Drake will have a dual reporting relationship to both Chief Information Security Officer in Enterprise Security Helen Patton and Gates Garrity-Rokous, Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer for the Office of University Compliance and Integrity.

The latest edition of the Enterprise Project Digest was shared with the Ohio State community to provide updates about the project’s work. Check out the EP Digest archive to read the full October issue. Highlights of this issue:

(1) Ohio State demonstrated its leadership in business and technology transformation by leading several presentations during the annual Workday Rising conference; (2) A Town Hall meeting held on October 10 for the university’s Human Resources (HR) community focused on how Ohio State will transform its HR service delivery model to improve the employee experience. Provost and Executive Vice President Bruce McPheron gave opening remarks; and (3) The project team has connected with each college and unit to understand the local technology systems currently in use throughout the university. This outreach has informed the "system disposition" process. The list of known systems and disposition outcomes was updated this month.

The Enterprise Project Digest is distributed monthly, and those who are interested in additional information are encouraged to subscribe.

The Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) is continually working to improve OSU Wireless. We want to provide the best connection in as many places as we can, to better support our students, faculty, staff and guests. Regardless of at which Ohio State campus you are located, we want to keep you connected.

Adobe Creative Cloud Service is the latest addition to our library of site-licensed software, which contains public domain or bulk purchase software that OCIO offers to the university community at no cost. Faculty and staff can access this service beginning Friday, October 5!

The latest edition of the Enterprise Project Digest was shared with the Ohio State community to provide updates about the project’s work. Check out the EP Digest archive to read the full September issue. Highlights of this issue: (1) Promoting Tableau Server, a reporting platform that supports shared data visualizations and analyses, since this spring, set for release in early October; (2) Performance Audit feedback - efforts related to Ohio State’s Enterprise Project, including streamlining human resources and financial systems and processes, were named as some of the university’s largest opportunities to reduce administrative costs in a recently released state performance audit; and (3) Change Network update.

The Enterprise Project Digest is distributed monthly, and those who are interested in additional information are encouraged to subscribe.

You may have noticed that BuckeyePass, powered by Duo, is being added to more and more Ohio State systems beyond Buckeye Link and BuckeyeBox. Starting September 30, it will be protecting eTimesheet and eLeave, and beginning October 11, that same protection will be added to Carmen and Vita. (The full list of systems behind BuckeyePass can be found at the BuckeyePass site.)