Purpose
Effective IT Governance is required for successful Information Technology strategy. Policies, Standards, and Procedures (PSP) are critical to managing risk, every policy is a risk document that aims to control behavioral related risks. At its core, the OU IT PSP Program is people-centered from staff, faculty, and key stakeholders.
OU IT as a subject matter expert, develops policies that support the governance, risk concerns, and compliance requirements of the University. The OU IT PSP program recognizes the ecosystem of individuals impacted by policies must be able to provide input into policies and enables all stakeholders to share a common understanding, operate within parameters that are safe and effective, and work together to protect the University’s data and compute environment.
Definitions
- Policy: OU IT Policies establish University leadership's intent and are high-level requirements designed to protect the University's mission.
- Procedures: OU IT Policy Procedures establish how tasks are performed to meet the requirements establish in Standards and to meet controls. Policy and Procedures are combined documents and will live on the OU Policy Portal (PolicyTech).
- Standards: OU IT Standards are formally established requirements in regard to a process, action, or configuration.
How To Use This Page
- Owner: The Owner is the person or group who manages this article and is notified of feedback (depending on the Notify Owner of Feedback setting). They can also make edits to the article.
- Created: Indicates date the article was created.
- Modified: Indicates the date a policy, standard, procedure or plan was last revised.
- Next Review Date: Indicates the date on which the article should next be reviewed to ensure that its content is relevant.
- Campus: Indicates the campus the policy or standard applies to.
- Related Services: Includes links to supporting knowledgebase/IT help articles.
- Attachments: Includes supporting attachments or documents.
Submit a Comment
Documents that are open for comments are labeled so and indicate when the comment period closes. Comments are invited and will be accepted at any time throughout the year. However, for comments to be included in the review by OU IT Governance Boards for the next version of the document, they must be received by 5:00pm.
To provide comments on a draft policy, you will be asked to sign-in. At the bottom of the policy you should see an option to sign-in to leave feedback.
You will be prompted to select an authentication system. Select OU and continue.
The next screen will ask you to login with your @ou.edu or @ouhsc.edu email address and password.
Once you are logged in, you can scroll to the bottom of the policy and will be presented with the question, "Was this helpful?". Select the appropriate response.
The final screen will give you an opportunity to provide a more detailed comment and let us know why the policy was or was not helpful. Your feedback is crucial to this program.
View Submitted Comments
Comments are shared across the enterprise to allow constituents and stakeholders access to the feedback that shapes effective policy. OU IT will create a comment summary log that will be accessible in the attachments section of each policy or standard. This summary will be updated every week during the comment period.
