ACS Convention: IT Roundtable

It’s midnight, and I’m finally getting around to blogging about the day. It was a profitable day, having the opportunity to network with a group of other church IT professionals as well as the IT-curious. One lady was completely blown away that any church had even one full-time IT...

Selectively blocking some sites

At today’s IT Roundtable at ACS’ Convention, I talked about selectively blocking some media on social networking sites. I’m being nebulous in my wording because I’m paranoid. I don’t want one of the big brothers to stumble across this post and change their sites so they break...

Protecting young (and not so young) eyes

Yesterday I wrote about securing your network. While I know that it is by no means a complete discussion on firewalls, let’s move on to talk in a little more detail about content filtering. Our church has the highest grade of “business class” cable Internet available. It meets and even...

Protecting your network from outside invaders

For my inaugural post on my fancy new church IT blog, I want to talk about the necessity of protecting your church members’ information, your church-owned computers, and each network user. I was reading Nick Nicholaou’s post about Biometrics, and I was inspired to post on network security. He...