Jodi Ito is the chief information security officer of the University of Hawai’i (UH) System in the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology since 2000 and has been with the University since 1982.
She is responsible for the security and protection of the information assets across the University of Hawai’i System. These responsibilities include the development and management of policies and procedures for the UH information security program, conducts risk & vulnerability analysis for critical assets, oversees investigations into cyber incidents, & develops/conducts training on information policy & security issues across all 10 UH campuses and affiliated research & education centers. She has also organized several large scale red/blue team cybersecurity exercises on the UH cyber range involving University students, Hawaii National Guard, military, state and federal government agencies.
She is a Principle Investigator and Program Director for the NSA’s GenCyber Camps in Hawaii to introduce cyber security to high schools students and teachers. She is also the co-PI on the NSF/NSA Scholarship For Services grants to provide full-ride scholarships for students pursuing cyber security degrees and the NSF Computer Science Principles for Hawaii to train high school teachers to be able to teach AP Computer Sciences Principles. She is also member of the REN-ISAC, MS-ISAC, Educause, and Infragard. Prior to becoming the Chairperson of CyberHawaii, Jodi headed up the Education & Workforce Committee and has been a lead organizer for CompuGirls Hawaii.
She graduated from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa with both a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science in 1982 and a Masters of Science degree in Information and Computer Science in 1987.