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Re: Looking for suggestions on how our students can securely upload sensitive documents to our Admissions department


From: Chris Green <CGreen () UTTYLER EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 18:36:01 +0000

Thanks, we'll look into it. I believe we are going to be implementing Box as our University sanctioned cloud solution 
at some point in the near future. Are there any institutions out there using Box for a scenario similar to this?

-C.

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Greg 
Williams
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 1:33 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Looking for suggestions on how our students can securely upload sensitive documents to our 
Admissions department

Ditto.  We use it for all kinds of sensitive documents.

Greg Williams
Director of Networks and Infrastructure
Information Technology
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, (EPC 136A)
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
www.uccs.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of 
Erlenbeck, Philip
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 12:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Looking for suggestions on how our students can securely upload sensitive documents to our 
Admissions department

I'd suggest looking at filelocker.  There is another thread going around about it right now.

--Phil
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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] on behalf of Chris Green 
[CGreen () UTTYLER EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 2:15 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Looking for suggestions on how our students can securely upload sensitive documents to our 
Admissions department

All,

It was recently brought to my attention that our students are being asked to email documents containing potentially 
sensitive data from their student email accounts to our Admissions department. While this process is technically secure 
since the data is encrypted, I believe it promotes a detrimental practice to our students. The last thing I want is for 
our students to think it's OK to email sensitive data whenever that information is needed by a third party. Right now I 
am just looking for better alternatives that I can present to our Admissions department as a way to prevent this 
process from continuing.

Any and all suggestions and/or feedback are greatly appreciated!

-C.


Chris Green
Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Tyler


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