January 22, 2007 — CSO — Lewis Watkins, formerly director of information resources, has taken the position of Chief Information Security Officer for the University of Texas System. The system comprises nine academic and six health institutions. According to the Austin Business Journal, the system is tighting information security in the wake of two major breaches in the past several years.
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