A major university in Illinois used to place the computer ou

A major university in Illinois used to place the computer output from student jobs on a table in the computer room. This room is the same computer room that housed all the campus’ mainframe computers and supporting devices. Students would enter the room pick, up their jobs, and leave. What kinds of security problems might computer services encounter with a system such as this?

Solution

Security problems:

1. There may be theft of servers.

2. One without IT knowledge may change the configurations of the server by mistake.

3. One who has IT knowledge may get information about the university from the server which are not accessible to everybody.

4. One could also end up changing their grades directly through the server.

5. Possiblity of data erase through mishandling.

6. Damage to server systems by students.