Re: Email forwarding for former faculty?

[Donald Welch <djwelch () UMICH EDU>]

We provide e-mail for life.  The security risk is that many of the
addresses are not used, but then they get compromised. It is addition work
to address compromised accounts and if we are not quick enough, it hurts
our standing in the various black lists.
Cheers,
Don


Donald J. Welch, Ph.D.
Chief Information Security Officer
University of Michigan
734-615-0334

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Ken Connelly <ken.connelly () uni edu> wrote:

> We permit emeritus retirees, both faculty and P&S staff, to retain their
> uni.edu email account for as long as they wish.  Since we're all on
> google apps for education, there isn't much of a resource drain other
> than occasional help with a password.
>
> - ken
>
> On 4/13/15 5:32 PM, Bob Bayn wrote:
> > When a faculty member ends employment with your institution /on good
> > terms/, either for a position elsewhere or retirement (emeritus)
> > status, do you provide an email forwarding service from their long
> > established (and probably published) email address at your
> > institution?  For how long? At what cost?
> >
> > It would seem to support academic progress and long term professional
> > associations to do so and be of minimal cost.  Graduates could more
> > easily contact former instructors/mentors for letters of reference and
> > other occasional communications.  Professional relationships could be
> > maintained and renewed more easily as people move between
> > institutions.  Many retired faculty maintain research interests and
> > contributions to professional organizations.
> >
> > The only risk that is apparent to me is that former faculty could
> > attempt to represent themselves as still employed at their former
> > institution and may appear to "speak for" that institution.  That
> > seems to me to be a tiny risk for faculty who have separated on good
> > terms.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bob Bayn      SER 301      (435)797-2396    IT Security Team
> > Office of Information Technology,         Utah State University
> >     Do you know the "*/Skeptical Hover Technique/*" and
> >     how to tell where a web link really goes?  See:
> https://it.usu.edu/computer-security/computer-security-threats/articleID=23737
> > <%20
> https://it.usu.edu/computer-security/computer-security-threats/articleID=23737
> >
>
> --
> - Ken
> =================================================================
> Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
> ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
> email: Ken.Connelly () uni edu   p: (319) 273-5850 f: (319) 273-7373
>
> Any request to divulge your UNI password via e-mail is fraudulent!