Approved: May 4, 2001

The appended material is excerpted from Minutes of the Trustees of Indiana University, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, 4-May-2001.

The following comments were subsequently distributed widely by then Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Michael McRobbie:

The following resolution was passed unanimously by the Board of Trustees at their meeting [May 4, 2001]. In accordance with this resolution I am authorizing Mark Bruhn [University Chief IT Security and Policy Officer] to exercise the authority conferred by it.

This resolution considerably increases the ability that OVPIT [Office of the Vice President for Information Technology] has, in particular through ITPO [University IT Policy Office] & ITSO [University IT Security Office], to deal with security matters both proactively and reactively. In particular it will allow ITPO and ITSO to take immediate control of any IT security problems that arise where this is necessary. This redoubles the importance of bringing any sec