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Even for hosted email, it would violate most corporate infosec policies.

jerf 12y ago
"Corporate infosec" policies on email have been taking a pretty big beating in the past few years anyhow. "BYOD", bring your own device, is a big buzzword in that field right now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device For all the horror stories of corporate IT lording their position over people lower on the ladder, in the end they are a service organization that is reacting, not dictating, and in this case it's often the executives who get the expensive-at-the-time tech first anyhow.
- X-Istence 12y ago
  At least on iOS the company can dictate the security requirements of the device using Exchange. For example because of corporate policies my iOS device is set to wipe itself after 4 invalid passwords have been entered rather than the default 10.
  - lawnchair_larry 12y ago
    This is an extremely stupid policy.
    - nullrouted 12y ago
      Lets add it doesn't add really any value to actual security. All it does is tick off the userbase and show you as an "unfriendly" security department. Just absolutely silly and whoever implemented that policy should be fired.
- bonaldi 12y ago
  "Corporate infosec" policies on email are getting a lot more attention now that various leaks have made executives and other non-technical people realise exactly how vulnerable corporate data is. Anecdotally I've seen IT teams having a much easier time explaining why you can't forward everything to GMail, for instance. That chimes with quite a few reports coming out claiming European-based cloud hosting is benefitting at the expense of US-based setups. BYOD is still a real thing, for sure. But iOS talking to corporate Exchange can relatively easily be made compliant with infosec. A third-party app ingesting corporate email to servers hosted in China under vague licensing? Not so much.
fluidcruft 12y ago
I installed it and was starting to like it. I really, really love Google Inbox and want it so desperately to support our hospital Outlook server. It never occurred to me that installing "Microsoft Outlook for Android" would mean "upload all your hospital email to some acquihired cloud". When Google abandoned the Email app in Lollipop and forced us all to add our Outlook accounts to the Gmail app, I was concerned (Google does explain quite clearly that this is just a UI thing and that it's not merging the email into the Gmail servers at all) that I would have to go back to those abominations in the Play Store since all the Outlook clients on Android suck and K9 refuses to work with our Exchange server. And here Microsoft releases Outlook for Android and I was all excited for nothing. Thank god I didn't receive any emails containing PHI while I had it enabled.
- lurkinggrue 12y ago
  Try touchdown instead?
  - fluidcruft 12y ago
    Touchdown has always been buggy (it loves to go into battery-draining fits) and is extremely buggy on Lollypop. It also hasn't been updated in tech-eons. It is so extremely frustrating to have to deal with a corporate Outlook server on Android. That's why I was excited that Microsoft finally put out something.
    - lurkinggrue 12y ago
      Shame this is simplistic to the point of nearly being useless.
- tdkl 12y ago
  Give Nine a go : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninefolders.hd3 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninefolder...

jerf 12y ago

"Corporate infosec" policies on email have been taking a pretty big beating in the past few years anyhow. "BYOD", bring your own device, is a big buzzword in that field right now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device For all the horror stories of corporate IT lording their position over people lower on the ladder, in the end they are a service organization that is reacting, not dictating, and in this case it's often the executives who get the expensive-at-the-time tech first anyhow.

X-Istence 12y ago
At least on iOS the company can dictate the security requirements of the device using Exchange. For example because of corporate policies my iOS device is set to wipe itself after 4 invalid passwords have been entered rather than the default 10.
- lawnchair_larry 12y ago
  This is an extremely stupid policy.
  - nullrouted 12y ago
    Lets add it doesn't add really any value to actual security. All it does is tick off the userbase and show you as an "unfriendly" security department. Just absolutely silly and whoever implemented that policy should be fired.
bonaldi 12y ago
"Corporate infosec" policies on email are getting a lot more attention now that various leaks have made executives and other non-technical people realise exactly how vulnerable corporate data is. Anecdotally I've seen IT teams having a much easier time explaining why you can't forward everything to GMail, for instance. That chimes with quite a few reports coming out claiming European-based cloud hosting is benefitting at the expense of US-based setups. BYOD is still a real thing, for sure. But iOS talking to corporate Exchange can relatively easily be made compliant with infosec. A third-party app ingesting corporate email to servers hosted in China under vague licensing? Not so much.

fluidcruft 12y ago

I installed it and was starting to like it. I really, really love Google Inbox and want it so desperately to support our hospital Outlook server. It never occurred to me that installing "Microsoft Outlook for Android" would mean "upload all your hospital email to some acquihired cloud". When Google abandoned the Email app in Lollipop and forced us all to add our Outlook accounts to the Gmail app, I was concerned (Google does explain quite clearly that this is just a UI thing and that it's not merging the email into the Gmail servers at all) that I would have to go back to those abominations in the Play Store since all the Outlook clients on Android suck and K9 refuses to work with our Exchange server. And here Microsoft releases Outlook for Android and I was all excited for nothing. Thank god I didn't receive any emails containing PHI while I had it enabled.

lurkinggrue 12y ago
Try touchdown instead?
- fluidcruft 12y ago
  Touchdown has always been buggy (it loves to go into battery-draining fits) and is extremely buggy on Lollypop. It also hasn't been updated in tech-eons. It is so extremely frustrating to have to deal with a corporate Outlook server on Android. That's why I was excited that Microsoft finally put out something.
  - lurkinggrue 12y ago
    Shame this is simplistic to the point of nearly being useless.
tdkl 12y ago
Give Nine a go : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninefolders.hd3 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninefolder...