info sec is not the problem it's a record keeping issue.

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Paul Robert Marino <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Nico
>> I tend to agree with you there are so many inexpensive mail services
>> out there now I haven't tried to do this kind of thing in many years.
>> But its not an option for every one especially it you work for a large
>> company then it can still be cheaper to do it in house or depending on
>> the industry your company is involved in there may be regulatory
>> reasons why SAAS is not an option for any thing considered a document
>> of record like email.
>
> I went through this at a finance company I worked with: I saw such
> claims, and they all failed under review. The reliability and disaster
> recovery and record keeping of GMail Apps was *better* than they'd
> ever had, or could ever be expected to do, in house. And the security
> was *better* than what the company had had, in-house for their
> Exchange system. (I had some talks with the Exchange admins and the AD
> admins about their security policies. It was pretty scary what they
> did as a matter of course.)
>
> "Messaging", like external DNS, is one of those services that anyone
> can set up as a basic internal service, but can be done much more
> robustly for a very modest fee, and leave your systems people and
> developers to work on things that your company actually *wants* to be
> doing.