USC Office of Cybersecurity eliminates roles in departmental restructuring

Posted on July 13, 2025

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USC Office of Cybersecurity eliminates roles in departmental restructuring

Impacted employees will be able to apply for positions in the restructured office.

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By ZACHARY WHALEN

July 9, 2025

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The USC Office of Cybersecurity is eliminating the roles of current employees to prepare for a departmental restructuring, USC Information Technology Services confirmed Wednesday evening.

“To meet the demands of today’s threat landscape, we are creating a new organization as part of our ongoing efforts to continuously improve cyber operations, be threat informed, and enable cyber resilience for the university,” the department wrote in a statement to the Daily Trojan.

Impacted employees will be able to apply for positions in the restructured USC Office of Cybersecurity, which launches on Sept. 30th. The statement did not confirm how many positions would be available in the new organization.

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