[unisog] Separation of Law School IT Resources

[Michael Holstein]

> I am looking to find information on universities that have law 
> schools. Do the university and the law school share any IT resources? 
> (e.g. Network, Telephone, Servers, Email,…) Or do they operate as a 
> complete separate entity? Any help would be appreciated.
>

We do (Cleveland-Marshall College of Law).

Network and phones (including wireless phones/blackberries) are provided 
by campus IT .. we control the border firewalls and core and edge 
switches .. including those that belong to the law school. Change 
management (ie: firewall ACLs) is handled through campus IT.

After that .. they can generally do as they please. They operate their 
own email server (although we require incoming/outgoing mail to pass 
through defined intermediate gateways), their own domain/fileservers, 
etc. We do encourage (but do not require) the use of centralized 
services (come on folks .. it really *is* cheaper..).

Cheers,

Michael Holstein CISSP GCIA
Cleveland State University