Re: Outsourcing Student (and maybe staff?) Email

["HALL, NATHANIEL D." <halln () OTC EDU>]

We are currently in the testing phase of considering moving all student
e-mail to Microsofts Live@EDU.  I'm not real happy with it so far
because of the number of messages we receive stating that the service is
down completely or partially.

 

As for staff/faculty e-mail we maintain it.  We believe there is too
much of a legal risk if we allow somebody else to take it over.

 

--
Nathaniel Hall, GSEC GCFW GCIA GCIH GCFA
Network Security System Administrator
OTC Computer Networking

Office: (417) 447-7535 

 

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From: Sadler, Connie [mailto:Connie_Sadler () BROWN EDU] 
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 2:56 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Outsourcing Student (and maybe staff?) Email

 

 

Have any of you already evaluated opportunities to outsource your
student email accounts to places like Google, Microsoft, etc.? We are
hearing more and more about the options, and I believe there are schools
(or so we are told) that have already set agreements with Google or
Microsoft, and I'm wondering if any of those institutions wouldn't mind
sharing knowledge or experience in this area. Now I am hearing that some
schools are outsourcing staff email as well. The price may be right, but
how are we going to deal with security risk - by encrypting all
staff/faculty email?