Dear Gang,
I need some help to prove my office's I.T. person wrong. First, a little background:
I'm a partner in our practice - so our I.T. person works for me. However, despite the fact that she's awful at her job, she's married to another person in our group so firing her or being overly confrontational would be difficult. A couple of years ago before buying a new computer, I asked our I.T. person if I could have an Apple on our office network which is a PC network to simply surf the web. The answer was an emphatic "no" and the explanation was that my Apple would cause the system to crash. I contacted both our ISP and Apple - both of whom said this was hogwash.
This I.T. person insisted that I get a PC laptop which I reluctantly did, and then she couldn't get it to work properly. Finally, I came to my senses, gave away the laptop (lost $2K) and bought a $1400 iBook. Needless to say, the iBook has seemlessly integrated in to our office network and performed flawlessly for the past 2 years.
Here's the current situation: I've been using an Airport Express in my office for the past few months to make my iBook wireless as well as to stream music to my stereo. Well, my I.T. person recently discovered the Airport Express and has gotten her undies in a "Y" about my "unapproved wireless network" because she feels that it opens up our patient data to potential hackers. I find this incredulous as our I.T. people have trouble getting the PCs to access our Unys based patient info and those PCs have software to do so. However, she's being adament about it and has insisted that I shut down my Airport Express.
Can any of y'all give me some info or reassurances about the robustness of the security of the Airport Express that I can use to very specifically prove that her fears are unfounded? I need some ammunition or guidance as to where I might find this ammunition.
TIA,
Mark
I need some help to prove my office's I.T. person wrong. First, a little background:
I'm a partner in our practice - so our I.T. person works for me. However, despite the fact that she's awful at her job, she's married to another person in our group so firing her or being overly confrontational would be difficult. A couple of years ago before buying a new computer, I asked our I.T. person if I could have an Apple on our office network which is a PC network to simply surf the web. The answer was an emphatic "no" and the explanation was that my Apple would cause the system to crash. I contacted both our ISP and Apple - both of whom said this was hogwash.
This I.T. person insisted that I get a PC laptop which I reluctantly did, and then she couldn't get it to work properly. Finally, I came to my senses, gave away the laptop (lost $2K) and bought a $1400 iBook. Needless to say, the iBook has seemlessly integrated in to our office network and performed flawlessly for the past 2 years.
Here's the current situation: I've been using an Airport Express in my office for the past few months to make my iBook wireless as well as to stream music to my stereo. Well, my I.T. person recently discovered the Airport Express and has gotten her undies in a "Y" about my "unapproved wireless network" because she feels that it opens up our patient data to potential hackers. I find this incredulous as our I.T. people have trouble getting the PCs to access our Unys based patient info and those PCs have software to do so. However, she's being adament about it and has insisted that I shut down my Airport Express.
Can any of y'all give me some info or reassurances about the robustness of the security of the Airport Express that I can use to very specifically prove that her fears are unfounded? I need some ammunition or guidance as to where I might find this ammunition.
TIA,
Mark