Todd Kent CTS-D (He/Him)
Director of Audiovisual Services, Rivier University
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About Todd Kent CTS-D
Expert in Audiovisual User Experience Engineering and Support
Highly professional and customer-focused audiovisual design engineer. More than 30 years of professional experience in the audiovisual business in a variety of roles.
Currently working in Higher-Ed for the past 13 years.
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Lulia, Institutions have come a long way when it comes to cybersecurity. I remember when my friends at college first got a high-speed shared connection in the dorm rooms. We were all abusing the heck out of it, bandwidth throttling, DDOS’ing others on the network and just causing general chaos. Why? Because no one was protecting the network! It’s interesting now that we have come so far to include AV devices on that network as well. This makes me wonder if there are a group of folks, just like I was, doing the same thing to the AV devices. I wonder what sort of measures these institutes are taking to ensure the students themselves don’t take control like I did with these AV devices.
Aaron: Hello. I agree with you. Protecting the LAN & WAN at your college institution is very important. However, keeping the audiovisual infrastructure safe does require some effort. Whenever we install new AV equipment in our campus, I do two very important things: 1) I put all our AV equipment on its own VLAN (fire walled away from WIFI, public, & lab networks). 2) I change the default passwords immediately. Many integrators leave the default passwords in place on devices unless you ask for them to be changed. Its a small task, but could pay dividends to keep AV equipment from being hacked. Take care.