Safety and security in SMEs
- Biggest challenge for one SME IT person very bad password practises
- PABX issues, default passwords on voicemail resulting in calls getting forwarded overseas, racking up a big bill
- Disable countries you don’t need
- Credit Limits on your account
- Good firewall practice
- Good pin/password practice
- SMEs wanted problem to go away since they had a business to run.
- No standards for IT in small business, everywhere is setup different
- 9 times out of 10 IT stifles business and makes things worse.
- Small businesses recognise value, don’t want to spend on stuff that doesn’t return value
- So many attack directions very hard to secure.
- If you let other people using your business devices its a huge risk. Do you let your kids play with your work phone/laptop?
- Biometrics don’t seem to be there yet
- Maybe cloud-based software is a solution.
Disaster recovery
- Pictures of before/after of satellite downlink and comms centre in Vanuatu after Cyclone
- Cellular network survived, Datacentre survived, Fibre network survived
- One month after disaster 80% of comms were restored
- NZ team just sent over material via Govt CIO
- Various other groups on the ground
- Lots of other people doing stuff. Some were uncoordinated with main efforts
- NZ people (Dean, Andy) Spent 90% of time on logistics and 10% of time on IT stuff
- Vanuatu people very busy. eg offshore people had own mailing list to discuss things and then filter them through to people on the ground
- Lots of offers from people.
- Plan not in place in Vanuata, they now have one though
- What people wanted was Generators and Satellite phones. Both of them are hard to ship via air due to Petrol/Lithium.
- Very hard for non-regular (not the top 5 NGOs) to get access to shipping in military planes etc
- Echo from people who had similar problems in Christchurch working with the regular agencies
- Guy from vodafone said their company (globally) has a cellphone site that can be split between normal plane luggage
- Twitter accounts for Wellington suburbs had a meeting with council
- Some community outreach from the councils to coordinate with others. community resilience. Paying for street BBQs etc. “Neighbours day”
- Vital infrastructure needs to have capacity in disaster.
- Orgs need to have plans in place beforehand
- Good co-operation between telcos in Christchurch Earthquake
- Mobile app for 111 currently being looked at
- Some parts of the privacy act can be loosened when disasters are declared to enable information sharing with agencies
- Options for UPS on UFB “modems”
Panel: Digital inclusion – Internet for everybody
- Panelists: Vanisa Dhiru (2020 Communications Trust), Bob Hinden (Internet Society), Professor Charles Crother (Auckland University of Technology), Robyn Kamira (Mitimiti on the Grid Project).
- Charles
- Cure-all quick technical fix
- attitude to non-users
- Recognise the dark-side of the Internet
- What sorts of uses do we want to see?
- Facilitating active vs passive users
- Various stats on users. At around 80%. Elderly catching up with other groups
- Vanisa
- Digital inclusion projects, best know is “computers in homes”, In 1500 homes per year
- Does digital disadvantaged just mean poor or other groups?
- Tim
- Network for Learning ( N4L)
- Connecting up schools to managed network, many over RBI
- School gets: router with firewall, some services on top of that
- Means teachers don’t have to worry about the technical issues
- map.n4l.co.nz is website with map of connected schools
- Target 90% by end of the year. Getting down to smaller and more remote schools
- Not just about having fibre connections and handing out tablets to every student
- Raspberry Pi at each site they can to remote in to test network
- Robyn
- Issues 10 years ago about theft of data and concepts
- Today we still see instances where models will have [Maori Chin Tattoo] and similar
- Wellbeeding – health, education
- Cultural preservation: creation too, not a museum piece
- Economic development: how to we participate in dev of NZ
- Mitimiti on the Grid. Very small school in Hokianga Harbour
- I was tweeting a bit too much rather than typing here.
- What is “inclusion”
- Where the leadership be coming from
- “everyone” . We live in a country small enough for everyone to do that.
General NetHui Feedback, some minor nagatives..
- Need filtering of questions. Too many in all sessions turned into long statements. Val Aurora outlines a good method to prevent this.
- I went to the “Quiet Room” once and there were people holding a noisy conversation
- Heard there was a bit of an agressive questionare during the e-Mental health session
