2009/8/18 Danny Lieberman <dan...@software.co.il> > Shachar > > On the Internet - size is not an indication of threat surface. Ability to > provision and maintain is more important. > > You have to engineer your solution to your needs. > > For us - the combination of Google Apps, slicehost (for smaller projects) / > rackspace (for big projects) rocks. > > Google Apps Mail and Calendar are amazing applications especially if you > have colleagues in 5 or 6 time zones and people with iphones and > blackberries like we do > > I can't believe that there are people on Linux-IL who seriously consider > Squirrel Mail a competitor. >
There you go again with the "Don't even think about hosting your own Webmail" Danny - There are companies out there which consider internal mail as "classified" - Hosting the emails on third-party servers, even encrypted versions of the emails, is simply a security threat. It's called keeping your data "close to home", and it's quite important, especially when your content might be problematic in other jurisdictions. And anyway - no one outside of my company network/VPN should have IMAP/POP3 access to the mail server. With Google Apps you carefully craft your office firewall rules, then move mailbox access to *outside* of the network??!! -mike > d > > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz>wrote: > >> Amos Shapira wrote: >> >> 2009/8/18 Danny Lieberman <dan...@software.co.il> <dan...@software.co.il>: >> >> >> d) We deploy security countermeasures to protect assets: >> 0) We don't use Google docs, Never. >> 1) None of our really sensitive assets are on Google Apps and that includes >> Calendar and Mail >> >> >> So what's left from your use of Google? >> >> BTW - do you (the plural "you" to the entire list) consider mail >> hosting by other companies besides Google as more secure? >> >> >> In most aspects, yes. >> >> First, another provider will likely be a smaller target (security by >> anonymity). >> Second, another provider are not cross linking your emails with other >> things they know about you. Granted, that's mostly because they don't have >> that other info, but whatever the reason - it works. >> >> As for traditional security - Google's extra size is a mixed blessing. I >> wouldn't work with someone small using a tailor made solution, but someone >> using a standard solution is likely, in the long run, to provide comparable >> security level to those Google provide (theoretical more chance of being >> vulnerable is offset by less chance of being exploited). >> >> Shachar >> >> -- >> Shachar Shemesh >> Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.http://www.lingnu.com >> >> > > > -- > Danny Lieberman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Protect your data: http://www.software.co.il > Twitter: http://twitter.com/onlyjazz > Skype: dannyl50 > Warsaw:+48-79-609-5964 > Israel: +972 8 9701485 > Mobile: +972 - 54 447 1114 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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