Organization

The main goal of the CISO is to secure the information of the University of Zurich.

Information is indispensable knowledge for the successful fulfillment of almost all procedures, tasks and processes at the University of Zurich.
Information must be available when it is needed, accessible only to those who have the appropriate authorization and provided in the expected, unaltered form.

The representatives of the units (Information Security Officers, ISOs for short) are employees from the central services, faculties, departments, institutes and professorships.

Their task is to liase between their unit and the CISO, to conduct self-assessments of their unit regarding cybersecurity resilience and, if necessary, to work in the awareness guild.

The role is described in the "Categorization of Information" directive.