[EAS] [BC] EAS Zombie Attack

[ray at electronicstheory.com]

I suppose I could write such a course and put it on www.electronicstheory.com -
but I'm kind of limited on time, and while I've had a lot of computer,
programming, and networking experience -  I don't yet consider myself and "IT
Expert"

On February 13, 2013 at 3:22 PM suzanne at mab.org wrote:

> I'm with Dave T.  This: "2. A free or sharply subsidized SBE online course on
> IT security focused on the needs of engineers with limited IT skills and
> limited budget."
> 
> ...would be hugely helpful.  I have stations where the owner is the engineer
> and also the news director.  Where the owner is also the sales manager, the
> webmaster, and the play-by-play announcer for high school basketball, and he
> has a very part-time engineer coming in once a week to apply the duct tape.
>  Cybersecurity is way down the to-do list for a lot of these folks, and not
> necessarily in the wheelhouse for a lot of our engineers who see age 29 dimly
> in the rear-view mirror.  I'm considering hiring an IT firm to conduct audits
> on my stations as a member service.  Ray's postings about ongoing probes of
> boxes in the wild, and the possible implications of that, have me very, very
> nervous.  "Change your password, now and often" is good advice, but it isn't
> enough.
> 
> PS - Great discussion, all.
> 
> -Suzanne Goucher
> Maine Association of Broadcasters
>
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Ray Dall
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