On August the 14th,
Digital Society students presented their insights into the school server system
here at AusIS. Their findings were presented in the form of a slideshow. This
proved to be a difficult yet engaging and interesting task.
The students were tasked
with surveying the school IT executive with a set of questions set beforehand
and had to present their findings. Together, the four of them had interviewed
an IT executive named Mr. Nasib here at AusIS. Their findings included finding
the amount of servers that were being hosted here at AusIS, their uses, and the
maintenance needs.
During this journey, they
were able to uncover a couple issues within the system, as it lacked protection
from external attacks with ill intent. With no firewall or VPN in place, the
school information could be quite vulnerable at the moment. Moreover, they were
able to discover the lack of redundant or backup servers.
From primary research
like this, the students are able to broaden their horizons with this experience
proving to be helpful in future endeavors such as their Internal Assessments.
Furthermore, the topic being at a local level also enables the students to find
out about more technological vulnerabilities here at AusIS and work towards
helping the school community by addressing these problems.
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