Cyber leadership profile
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a major public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois system. It serves over 50,000 students and manages a significant research enterprise, including advanced computing facilities like the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The security environment involves protecting a massive distributed network, sensitive academic research, and complex regulatory compliance requirements.
Open leadership roles
1
1 at Director level or above
Opened, last 12 months
1
1 Director+
Prior 12 months
0
Hiring velocity
Low
Median Opportunity Score 78
1 leadership role observed in the last 12 months. CLI has no coverage of the prior year for this employer. Counts reflect roles University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign posted that CLI has observed and published; they are not a complete record of the employer's hiring.
Stephanie Flowers
Chief Information Security Officer, UIUCHiring influence: HighStated publiclyHigh confidenceServes as the Chief Information Security Officer for the Urbana-Champaign campus, overseeing campus-specific security strategy and operations.
Edward Blount
Chief Information Security Officer, University of Illinois SystemHiring influence: HighStated publiclyHigh confidenceSystem-level CISO responsible for coordinating security policies and compliance across all University of Illinois campuses.
Tracey Musarra Bulger
Director of Privacy and Cybersecurity GovernanceHiring influence: ModerateStated publiclyHigh confidenceKey leader within the UIUC Technology services overseeing privacy and security governance.
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The UIUC CISO reports through the campus Technology Services leadership, while collaborating with the University of Illinois System CISO for overarching policy alignment. Security functions are distributed across centralized IT and college-specific IT units.
Major functions
Maturity indicators
The university maintains a dual-layered maturity model with dedicated campus security leadership supported by system-wide oversight and shared resources via OmniSOC.
Organization figures are CLI estimates, not disclosures. High confidence
Oct 2023
University of Illinois System Expands Cybersecurity Collaboration with OmniSOC
Security initiativeHigh confidenceUniversity of Illinois System joined the OmniSOC, a shared cybersecurity operations center for higher education, to enhance threat detection and response capabilities.
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Education
Urbana, IL · Hybrid
$210,000 – $265,000 base, disclosed
Employer title: Deputy Chief Information Officer, Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer
Senior Director-equivalent
CLI Career Level
78
Opportunity
Above average · Last verified 1 hour ago
Cyber Leadership Index compiles these dossiers from public sources and the employer's own postings. Inferred figures are labelled with a confidence level; anything CLI cannot establish is shown as unknown rather than estimated. Last refreshed September 17, 2026.