Currently, the Church is technology deprived. They have a few Windows XP and Windows 7 computers with commercial support ending over two years ago. (Microsoft, 2017).
Their Internet is provided via a consumer grade cable modem designed more for the home than what a Church of their needs and size. A faster Internet connection is needed between buildings will help establish a high-speed, interconnected network for the Church to operate.
Current file sharing is handled via “sneaker net”. This includes scanning of documents from a central all-in-one (scan, print, copy, etc…). We are told the scanners can only email one person only, everyone else uses USB drives. It is unsure if such drives are encrypted and if so where are the backup keys. …show more content…
This prevents the Church from having ready access to membership information in meetings. Another limitation to this solution is that the current solution will provide statistical reports on key fields found in the database.
Email is hosted externally from a third party. At this time, they would like to keep it that way. There are also other custom email accounts for council members that are tied to other online sharing tools.
The Church is in a severe need to upgrade their old workstation with up-to-date OS and cloud-based software for day-to-day office documentation and the latest database solution to bring their membership tracking to the 21st century. Improved network security will come along in the form of a firewall and with increased security comes the need to protect data through backup and archive so a backup solution will need to be put in