What employees and students need to know about new OHIO information security standards Published: April 1, 2021 Author: Staff reports Ohio University has adopted new Information Security Standards that serve to guide the University community on how best to secure the technology that accesses, stores, processes or transmits University data. This article provides an overview of all of the new standards as well as background information on how and why they were established. Launch of the IT Standing Committee: Information Security In January 2020 the IT Governance Framework was established for OHIO. As the governance framework has evolved over the last year, the IT Standing Committee: Information Security was formed. The Information Security Governance Standing Committee is charged annually by the IT Strategy & Governance Committee and is empowered to inform strategy and decision rights for all University information security matters. This includes establishing roadmaps, shepherding initiatives and producing clearly defined decision authority and escalation paths.