Riflessioni sui pro e i contro di dare in outsourcing la posta elettronica di un'università (in questo caso Berkeley). juan carlos The good, not so good, and long view on Bmail Chris Hoofnagle <http://blogs.berkeley.edu/author/choofnagle/>, director of BCLT's privacy programs | 3/6/13 |7 comments <http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/03/06/the-good-not-so-good-and-long-view-on-google-mail/#comments>|Leave a comment <http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/03/06/the-good-not-so-good-and-long-view-on-g...> Chris Hoofnagle /Many campuses have decided to outsource email and other services to "cloud" providers. Berkeley has joined in by migrating student and faculty to bMail, operated by Google. In doing so, it has raised some anxiety about privacy and autonomy in communications. In this post, I outline some advantages of our outsourcing to Google, some disadvantages, and how we might improve upon our IT outsourcing strategy, especially for sensitive or especially valuable materials./ *Why outsourcing matters* Many of us welcome possible alternatives to CalMail, which experienced an embarrassing, protracted outage in fall 2011. Many of us welcomed the idea of migrating to Gmail, because we use it personally, have found it user-friendly and reliable, and because it is provided by a hip company that all of our students want to work for. But did we really look before we leaped? Did we really consider the special context of higher education, one that requires us to protect both students and faculty from outside meddling and university-specific security risks? Before deciding to outsource, we have to be sure that there are service providers that understand our obligations, norms, and the academic context. [...] Continua qui: http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2013/03/06/the-good-not-so-good-and-long-view-on-g...
