Re: email threats

[Bob Bayn <Bob.Bayn () USU EDU>]

> At 03:52 PM 9/4/2007, Mark DeSerio put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
> > Does anyone have procedures in place regarding email threats
> > to their college? Such as certain key words in a message would
> > get forwarded to personnel to handle the email threat.   This
> > would be bomb threats and threats to employees. The recent
> > occurrences at other colleges that have be in the news our
> > college is interested in what other schools have in place for
> > email threats.

Roger Safian replied:
> We let our police department deal with threats.  personally,
> even if I suspect that the threat is likely nothing to be
> worried about, I don't want to be the person who makes that
> decision.  Especially if it's the wrong one.

Are these threats that you detect somehow or that the recipient
refers to you?  If the former, then how do you detect them and
what else have you found during the search?

Bob Bayn
IT Security Team
Utah State University