[EAS] Cybersecurity for broadcast stations

[Clay Freinwald]

Phil Johnson wrote - 

> Broadcasters should have enough technical expertise available to properly
install and configure equipment connected to the Internet.  And that's why
God made broadcast engineers.
> So I believe broadcasters must use common sense and take responsibility
for their own security.  I have three words of advice:  Read. The. Manual.

Thanks Phil - Unfortunately all too many don't feel the way you do.   Many
purse-controllers feel that Engineers are a necessary evil that does not
bring in money but rather spends it.    As for reading the manual - You have
got to be kidding !!!   Superior IQ's and ego's forbid such a thing....This
is like asking for directions when lost :-)

I vividly recall hearing a broadcast engineer being told by his client to
stop trying to make it look neat...adding that he was paying for him to make
it work, not look pretty.     Unfortunately, in many small radio stations
these days this is S.O.P.

Cyber security measures are very much like insurance....Many of these clowns
will only purchase it because the bank told them they had to...otherwise
they would 'cheap-out' of that also.

Lessons like - Spending the money on fire-wall hardware, or password
protection etc is usually learned in a couple of ways - 

1- When their decision cost them money.
2- When their stupidity creates exposure that wounds their ego
3 - Or both.

Phil, you and I have worked for the same company in a major market - They
got to be a major company by not acting stupid....Unfortunately not everyone
is so lucky.

Clay Freinwald