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IT Security Core Team

Article I – NAME OF ORGANIZATION

The name of the organization is the Information Technology Security (ITS) Core Team: ITS Core for short.

Article II. PURPOSE

ITS Core is created and given authority by the CISO and CIO to:

  1. Increase collaboration and communications among the different IT groups regarding information security matters.
  2. Oversee the institution’s overall security posture and make university-wide recommendations in support of improving it through the Information Security Program.
  3. Review and decide on security policy changes and exemption appeals.

Article III. MEMBERSHIP

Voting Members (Defined by roles):

*The Deputy CISO shall serve as chair in the event the CISO is not available. If both the chair and the vice-chair are present, only the CISO will vote.

  1. CISO – Mary Dickerson (chair)
  2. Deputy CISO – Richard Anselme (vice-chair) *
  3. CIO – Amar Yousif
  4. Administrative & Academic Technologies – Connie Woodridge
  5. Healthcare IT – Dr. James Griffiths
  6. IT Infrastructure – Tony Murry
  7. UXS – Bassel Choucair
  8. Data Management Officer – Bassel Choucair
  9. Research Security Officer or Designee – Dr. Kevin Morano/Dr. Sujatha Sridhar
  10. Cizik School of Nursing – Linda Crays
  11. McGovern Medical School – Nermin Suljic
  12. McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics – David Ha
  13. MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School - Michael Valladolid
  14. School of Behavioral Health (NEW) – TBD
  15. School of Dentistry –Kristine Olivier
  16. School of Public Health (SPH) – Cynthia Bihm
  17. UT Physicians – Tariq Khan
  18. UWS – Courtenay Siegfried

Non-voting Members (Defined by roles): Officially appointed by the Chair upon recommendation of a voting member

  1. ITS Manager – UXS – Ryan Awar
  2. ITS Manager – Research Security – Alex Nartey
  3. ITS Manager – Risk Management and Consulting – Jennifer Huenemeier
  4. ITS Manager – Security Operations – Elias Rivera
  5. ITS Manager – Identity and Access Management – Farhan Silat
  6. ITS Manager – MITP and Process Automation – Josh Kinney
  7. Assistant Director, IT Infrastructure – Benjamin Graham
  8. Assistant Director, IT Infrastructure – Mike Seils
  9. Senior Manager, Network Engineering & Support – Bill Murphy
  10. Manager System Administration/SPH - Chris Bradshaw
  11. UXS Director – Bonnie McDonough
  12. Finance – Diarra Boye
  13. Senior Network Architect - Network Engineering & Support - TJ McClintic

Section 1. Eligibility for Membership

  1. Members must be fulltime or contract-to-hire employees of UTHealth or UTP
  2. Non-voting membership is by appointment of the chair.
  3. Voting membership is by proposal of the chair and then supermajority vote.
  4. The chair can revoke non-voting membership.
  5. Revocation of voting membership is by proposal of the chair and supermajority vote.
  6. Chairmanship and membership of the chair is non-revocable so long as they continue to hold the CISO position.

Section 2. Rights of Members

  1. All members shall be eligible to participate in ITS Core meetings and discussions.
  2. Voting members shall be eligible to cast one vote or appoint one voting representative to cast the member’s vote.
  3. All members can propose agenda items to the chair and the chair shall set the agenda.

Article IV. MEETINGS OF MEMBERS

Section 1. Regular Meetings

Regular members of the meeting shall be held monthly, at a time and place designated by the chair (virtual meetings allowed). In the absence of official business requiring a vote of the members, an email update may be distributed by the chair in lieu of a meeting.

Section 2. Special Meetings

Special meetings may be called by the chair or a supermajority of voting members.

Section 3. Expanded Meetings

Quarterly there will be an expanded ITS Core Team meeting in which the following roles will also be invited to participate as non-voting members for purposes of alignment and discussion of ITS program information and strategy:

  1. Chief Audit Officer/Representative from Audit
  2. Chief Compliance Officer
  3. Chief Privacy Officer
  4. Chief of Police/Asst. Chief of Police
  5. Chief Human Resources Officer
  6. InterFaculty Council (IFC) Representative
  7. Center for Healthcare Data (CHCD) Representative
  8. Vice President Safety, Health, Environment and Risk Management
  9. Chief Operating Officer, Practice Plan
  10. Vice-Dean, Clinical Technology

Section 4. Quorum

A quorum of at least twelve voting members shall be required to take a vote.

Section 5. Voting

All issues to be voted on shall be decided by a majority of those voting members present at the meeting in which the vote takes place.

Section 6. Majority and Supermajority

  1. Majority is half plus one or higher of the voting body.
  2. Supermajority is two-thirds or higher of the voting body.

Section 7. Confidentiality

Members shall not discuss or disclose sensitive, classified or protected information about ITS Core business to any person or entity unless such information is already a matter of public knowledge, such person or entity has a need to know, or the disclosure of such information is in furtherance of ITS Core’s purposes, or can reasonably be expected to benefit the ITS Core team mission.