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The problem is that much (not all) the business important data is involved the public internet. Take this school for example - prospective students applied onli
by jacobr1 4y ago
The problem is that much (not all) the business important data is involved the public internet. Take this school for example - prospective students applied online. One could imagine sneaker-netting the application data to an airgapped network, but that introduces its own costs and risks.
Email (or other messages systems like slack) are one of primary tools of business, facilitating communication within an organization. You can't do that well with an air-gapped network, except to make that network really leaky.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoI totally get it, but the internet hasn't been around that long. How did we handle this 30 years ago? I imagine students applied via snail mail, and then someone manually entered the information into a database. There's no reason to go back to paper applications, and that database should absolutely be digital—but I think we could do a lot more manual entry.
- MandieD 4y ago25 years ago: carefully hand-write half-page essays on pre-printed application forms, attach $50 checks for application fees, beg your mother to drive your procrastinating self to the downtown post office by 5pm on December 31. Start receiving long-awaited envelopes around Spring Break, and speculate on whether said envelopes were thin because they contained simple rejection letters, or because the desired financial aid details would follow the next week.