Perhaps you thought your church records were secure but your computer was hacked anyway.
Causes of Getting Hacked:
You may have taken measures to secure your records but suffered a breach anyway. Look at some of the banks and major retail chains that were hacked and all the personal data that got taken. Churches and ministry organizations usually don’t invest as much into security as these financial institutions.
But, it could have happened due to:
- not keeping security software up-to-date
- not keeping other programs on your computer up-to-date, but especially programs containing records
- using easy to crack passwords
- clicking on malicious links in e-mails
- not locking the door to church offices
Perhaps the biggest reason for some churches is not taking security of records seriously. After all, you don’t have people’s social security numbers or credit card information. Yet, you do have other personal information that can be used in a variety of ways. If nothing else, you could be setting your members up for some nuisance advertising. Why do that?
Results of Getting Hacked:
Churches and ministries are not exempt from these kinds of problems. Even if no fault of your own, it can erode people’s trust, consume a lot of time and effort in fixing the problem, and result in the loss of valuable records. How you respond makes a difference.
Order the Steering the Church Toward Christ-like Character Leadership Guide for some suggestions of what would be a Christ-like response.
All Posts about Records and Reporting:
- Record Keeping & Reporting: Measure Your Objectives
- Record Keeping & Reporting: Keep Pulse on Body
- Record Keeping & Reporting: Facilitate Ministry
- Record Keeping & Reporting: Assess Growth
- Church Record Keeping Resources
- Church Records Management
- Transparency in Church Records Management
- Confidentiality in Church Records Management
- Responsibility in Church Records Management
- We’ve Been Hacked!
- Record Keeping & God’s power?
- Record Keeping Based on Human Wisdom
- Records & Reporting Point Back to God’s Grace?
- Record Keeping & Reporting Kept in Check by God’s Grace
- Records Keeping & Spiritual Gifts
- Record Keeping That’s Not Mundane
- Lay It All Before the Lord
- Meaningful Record Keeping
- Whether Good or Bad, Make Records about the Name of the Lord
- Records and Reports from the Resurrection