On Thursday of last week Jerry DeSanto, the VP for Planning and CIO, sent out an email introducing the faculty to the outlining some guidelines as to the appropriate use of Cloud Computing. Cloud computing can prove a significant risk to student privacy which needs to be taken into consideration when faculty consider their use.
You can download a PDF copy of the guidelines here.
We recommend that faculty read this document to inform themselves about what Cloud Computing is, as well as what risks they adopt by using the service. If you have any questions, please feel free to send them to tag-members@royallists.scranton.edu.
TAG is also in the process of writing a memo about the privacy consideration of some cloud computing services, which we hope to distribute later this semester.
[…] The Cloud Computing Guidelines were brought before the cabinet, who requested a list of IR-support cloud computing services be added. These guidelines were distributed to the university faculty on October 11. […]