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By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:11:44 +0000

Those 2 pence of yours are worth a whole lot more than 2 pence. Good stuff man.

peace | dewde

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:42:21 +0000

> 3. Considering Everyone an “Internal Threat”

But that’s just the point – the vast majority of recognised stats point to the fact that it is inside the network that the bigger threat comes.
- lack of OS or App patching.
- lack of up to date A/V
- no methodolgy to mitigate when problems occur
- poor control over staff bringing in their own s/w or usb keys, etc
- poor control over staff creating their own networks that circumvent security

Let alone the issue of disgruntled or poorly trained staff ….

OK – so maybe this doesn’t apply so much to a church setup, but it doesn’t mean one should step backwards and allow the pastor unhindered access to do whatever they want.

Just my 2p.

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By: kennysnow

kennysnow — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:41:58 +0000

Unfortunately we typically only have scheduled training when we add a new technology that affects a large number of the staff. It is a personal failure of mine that we do not offer more regular training, but it’s hard to schedule something no one really looks forward to. It is an challenge to change people’s views of tech, and to make training interesting! Offering more training is one of the main things that I want to change about the I.T. environment at our church.

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By: John Saddington

John Saddington — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:02:14 +0000

ah, good point. training is everything! do you guys have set training days? or is it all adhoc?

By: kennysnow

kennysnow — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:58:31 +0000

Amen, brother. I don’t think #3 is actually a mistake, as long as you don’t treat people like enemies. There is a difference. End users ARE a threat to data, and protecting data is one of the main duties of I.T.. The key is to maintain policies and procedures that reduce the threat, while still keeping the resources available to ministry.

I see the main mistake we make in I.T. in this area is ignoring the need for training for our end users. GOOD training = threat reduction.

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By: PhillipGibb

PhillipGibb — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:12:44 +0000

I made a mistake today. Nothing is working, the process has hung because there is nothing in the log file.
doh, that happens when logging is off.

By: itsonlybarney

itsonlybarney — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:55:46 +0000

I’m a control freak, and just know that if someone could potentially mess the network up, then it definitely will happen.

I sort of guess that unless you have a full time IT support staff member available, then you have to give people access to whatever they need, even if that means being slightly more loose on security.