info sec is not the problem it's a record keeping issue.
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmari...@gmail.com> > 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.
