State CIO outlines SITSD role, proprietary funding model and agency charges

State Chief Information Officer Kevin Gilbertson told a legislative subcommittee that the state’s Information Technology Services Division (SITSD) manages centralized infrastructure, enterprise applications and statewide cybersecurity while agencies continue to control the business applications that run their programs.

"There’s actually only two IT roles that are identified in statute in all of the states," Gilbertson said, summarizing the statutory basis for the state CIO role and the chief information security officer. He described SITSD’s five teams that handle digital transformation, infrastructure, information security, operations and a technology office for shared services. "We have centralized infrastructure ... our data center is centralized and that is completely managed by…