Mr. Frank J. Piscitello, Jr.
Mr. Piscitello, the Information Security Officer, is responsible for
developing and monitoring practices to ensure that West Chester
University's administrative information is secure from
unauthorized access, protected from inappropriate alteration,
physically secure, and available to authorized users in a timely fashion.
The ISO's duties include training in and dissemination
of security policies and practices as well as assist developing
strategies and plans to provide for timely business resumption
in the event a serious disruption.
Other duties of the Information Security Officer include:
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work in conjunction with WCU technical staff and personnel in
campus departments
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assure overall responsibility for assessing
and monitoring the security of WCU’s computers, networks and data
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formulate and promulgate campus standards for security and review
relevant policies and procedures in the context of these standards
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educate, advise and train staff on approaches for ensuring the security
of university networks, systems and data
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develop crisis management procedures;
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assist with emergency response and disaster recovery
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directly assist in resolution of serious incidents, including
coordination with the campus judiciary system and law enforcement agencies
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participate in the evaluation and implementation of security-related
technologies, such as authentication/authorization mechanisms, encryption,
certificate services, anti-virus software, network filtering,
firewalls, proxy servers;
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work closely with the various administrative systems security
administrator to manage the access and authorization to applications
and data warehouses;
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work with data access policy administrators
and other campus stakeholders to define, implement, monitor and
document data access/security procedures in accordance with
university policy, so as to ensure an enterprise-wide data-critical
operation of the university on a 24 x 7 basis.