{"id":1435,"date":"2016-11-01T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:45","slug":"ciso-don-welch-to-leave-u-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/01\/ciso-don-welch-to-leave-u-m\/","title":{"rendered":"CISO Don Welch to leave U-M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-605\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch.jpg 180w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch-105x140.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>Chief Information Security Office <strong>Don Welch<\/strong> will leave U-M to become the CISO at Penn State University. Welch joined U-M 18 months ago. His last day at Michigan will be December 2. \u201cDon played a critical role in leading U-M\u2019s information security program,\u201d said Kevin Hegarty, U-M interim CIO, executive vice president, and chief financial officer. \u201cHe raised the bar for our information security program by launching several strategic initiatives to increase the security posture of our research-intensive environment, to ensure U-M has relevant and actionable compliance standards, and to safeguard against cyber-attacks. I thank Don for his service to U-M and wish him well in his new endeavors.\u201d Hegarty plans to work with <a href=\"http:\/\/record.umich.edu\/articles\/kelli-trosvig-become-u-ms-first-vp-information-technology\">recently announced VPIT-CIO Kelli Trosvig<\/a> to set a plan for interim and long-term CISO leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Information Security Office Don Welch will leave U-M to become the CISO at Penn State University. Welch joined U-M 18 months ago. His last day at Michigan will be December 2. \u201cDon played a critical role in leading U-M\u2019s information security program,\u201d said Kevin Hegarty, U-M interim CIO, executive vice president, and chief financial officer. \u201cHe raised\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/01\/ciso-don-welch-to-leave-u-m\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-ciso"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch.jpg",180,240,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch-113x150.jpg",113,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch-105x140.jpg",105,140,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch.jpg",180,240,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch.jpg",180,240,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch.jpg",180,240,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch.jpg",180,240,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch-180x140.jpg",180,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch.jpg",32,42,false],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch.jpg",180,240,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch.jpg",180,240,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/201611-don-welch.jpg",180,240,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Chief Information Security Office Don Welch will leave U-M to become the CISO at Penn State University. Welch joined U-M 18 months ago. His last day at Michigan will be December 2. \u201cDon played a critical role in leading U-M\u2019s information security program,\u201d said Kevin Hegarty, U-M interim CIO, executive vice president, and chief financial&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}