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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC
Good Morning.
Our IT Director gave our DNS account login and password to the company moving our Exchange on-line hosting. I would NEVER have done that. I would have had them give me the dns records that needed added/changed to make the move so that I could make them, or created a login for them that I could remove. Again I would NEVER have given anyone the actual DNS account login let alone password! To me it was not at all acceptable security procedure. Now after everything has been moved I am going to have to create a new admin account and delete the old one. Would much rather have created a temporary login without full admin permission!
Boy, my managers are making some stupid decisions on our internet security. And no amount of spending on Internet Security Awareness Training of our email users is going to help cause it ain't our users making the holes.
Since we changed to only using Microsoft's Exchange on-line anit-spam we've gotten more phishing spam than since we've had email accounts. A few months versus since 1991!
It is such a waste. A good anti-spam solution for a company of our size costs around $3000 a year. The training and testing content alone costs $5000 a year. And that does not include the downtime for users while being trained and tested and training personnel and their time. We have already lost $17K due to a phishing attack since switching to Microsoft's FREE anti-spam.
No wonder we can't make a profit in the current oil industry slump!
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How much KoolAid do they drink over there, or what is in the water at the offices? Glad our IT Director isn't that stupid. I just ask for the records that need added and call it good. Our old Clinicals software publisher had their own "special" account (since they were "special people") with limited access to their server so they could do updates remotely. They had some of the most convoluted SQL and .NET stuff I have ever seen. The SQL would be akin to Richard giving directions for Glen to get to his house and have it be 3 pages long and include Pocono, Miami, Austin, Syndey.