Re: Outsourcing Student (and maybe staff?) Email

[Brad Judy <Brad.Judy () COLORADO EDU>]

Connie,
 
This issue has been discussed on the higher-ed e-mail admin list and you
can either join or look at archives here:
http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/hied-emailadmin.html
 
There are multiple schools taking this direction right now, including
Missouri, who presented about it at a recent conference.  The PowerPoint
is available here:
http://windows-hied.org/Conf2006/Missouri_WindowsLive.ppt
 
There has been some press recently about ASU outsourcing to Google.
IIRC, there was an article in the Chronicle about it.
 
Brad Judy
 
University of Colorado at Boulder



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        From: Sadler, Connie [mailto:Connie_Sadler () BROWN EDU] 
        Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 1:56 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?

        Any thoughts or experiences would be very much appreciated! 

        Thanks much... 

        Connie J. Sadler, CM, CISSP, CISM, GIAC GSLC 
        IT Security Officer
        Brown University Box 1885, Providence, RI 02912
        Connie_Sadler () Brown edu <mailto:Connie_Sadler () Brown edu> 
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