Re: Gmail, etc. - Forwarding Email to Personal Accounts!

[Ken Connelly <Ken.Connelly () UNI EDU>]

I hear you, but you're going to tell a tenured Comp Sci (or whatever,
you fill in the department) professor that s/he can't do something?? I'm
afraid we're all in the wrong TLD to pull this one off.

- ken

Sadler, Connie wrote:
> Hi, all… we have more and more people (faculty and staff as well as
> students) who want to forward their work-related messages, as well as
> their personal messages, to one central email account, usually gmail.
> Obviously, I am concerned about having potentially sensitive
> university email content sitting on a gmail server. What are you folks
> doing to manage these sorts of requests? Are you preventing staff or
> faculty from doing this? If so, how has that worked? We are rapidly
> moving toward expectations people have of having all of their
> messaging funneled to one place, and while this is certainly
> convenient, I'm quite concerned about how we can ensure a reasonable
> level of security.
>
> Thanks -
>
> 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>
> Office: 401-863-7266
> PGP Key:
> _http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x91E38EFB_
> <http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x91E38EFB>
> PGP Fingerprint: DA5F ED84 06D7 1635 4BC7 560D 9A07 80BA 91E3 8EFB

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- Ken
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Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
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