ODU director of IT Publishes Article on Information Security in Higher Education
August 22, 2018
Doug Streit
By Joe Garvey
J. Douglas Streit, director of IT, security and planning, and CISCO at Old Dominion University, recently had an article published on the Education Technology Insights web site.
Streit's article, entitled "Security in Education, My, How Things Change!" focused on the culture change in higher education regarding information security.
"Information security in higher education has come a long way over the last seven years," wrote Streit, who began working as ISO in 2011. "I rarely find questions as to whether we should protect our information and resources. But that doesn't mean our job is easier."
He went on to write: "These days, I am rarely involved in troubleshooting technical issues. But I am immersed in protecting data and infrastructure in a diverse research and educational environment."
Streit has served as a systems engineer, a technical manager and an IT director at the University for 20 years. His responsibilities include strategic and operational planning, an information security program, in-house identity and middleware development, IT project management, and university records management. He holds a bachelor's of science degree from the United States Naval Academy and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.
