The schools district does not use VLANs. Not using VLANs increases the risk of having students find and attack administrative data. Students or hackers spoof a server. The school uses Microsoft Access databases for sensitive information. Microsoft Access has minimal security features.
Some schools use students to maintain their networked systems.
This can be a security issue if students purposely or inadvertently compromise the network. Schools do not have security policies, procedures, or monitoring processes and tools. CERT paper on Incident Reporting and Escalation 22. Students or hackers employ a Trojan Horse. A Trojan horse is a program that does something that the programmer intended, but the user would not approve of if he knew about it in advance.