Re: Overzealous IT

[Chad Dorton <cdorton at slcpl dot org>]

As an IT professional, I agree with your IT department 100%.  Your IT
department
is simply following commonly understood IT securtiy best practice.
Password/IP
sniffing is a very real threat.

Not to editorialize, but perhaps, rahter than complaining to your IT
department
suprvisor about, you should sit with your IT coordinator and him her/him give
you a run down of exaclty how dangerous a place the Internet has become.

My $.02,

Chad Dorton
Network Specialist
Salt Lake City Public Library
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
801-524-8282
cdorton at slcpl dot org

Quoting Jan Sapp <Jan dot Sapp at cityofcarrollton dot com>:

> One of the people in my IT department is wanting to give a
> login/password to III to use when they have to telnet and ftp to our
> server.  He has even gone so far as to tell me to not email this
> information to III but to call them and have them put the information in
> our record.  His fear is that someone will sniff out the IP used by III
> and our server, get their hands on the login/password thru email and
> then use this information to cause trouble.
> Do any of you have this issue?  How are you dealing with it?  I talked
> to III and they say (and I agree!) it could cause many problems for them
> when they need to access our server.
> I'm going to send a formal email to this person's supervisor later this
> week.  Thanks.
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> Jan Sapp
> Electronic Resource Coordinator
> Carrollton Public Library
> 972-466-3591
> jan dot sapp at cityofcarrollton dot com
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> Note:  I will be on vacation February 15th-20th.
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