Radio Jamaica Celebrating 70 Years

Page 34 Sunday July 4, 2021 Digital Footprint or instantaneous. The problem with all this openness is security. Security attacks have become an everyday reality in today’s digital world. Virus attacks, malware, and ransomeware have become the panic-inducing lexicon of today. Email is the easiest way in for these trojans and other malicious programmes, and, therefore, it is a heavily guarded gate. High-tech security is installed on all the Group’s emails even to the extent of refusing to accept valid mail that seems suspicious. The second point of weakness is the Internet and as a result, certain crucial parts of the system are locked away from Internet access to make it impossible to be attacked in that manner. It has, therefore, become common to see two computers at a desk, one with Internet access and the other, which contains important Group information, without. The use of laptops has become common, but these are universally without USB connectivity to ensure that they do not become infected via external drives. While forums for radio shows may be on the machines at the studio, with their own heightened security systems, access to smartphone apps is usually by personal phones. This means that any attack on those platforms will not result in infections across the Group’s intranet but only on a single phone. That is a much easier problem to fix. Internally, these have become the new norms, just as services like Zoom have grown exponentially during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Broadcast interviews are now routinely conducted via smartphone or by computer, using Facebook or Zoom. Whatever the challenges, Radio Jamaica is ready to adapt, adopt, transform and be reinvented. R adio Jamaica is always working to ensure that it keeps on top of the newest and most relevant technologies. Since the global spread of the Internet and Internet technologies like file sharing, forums, and blogs, the technology has been revolutionised. In the past, if you needed a song, the system was tedious. You had to have the library search for that song via mail and tedious word-of-mouth information. Who produced that song? Who sang it? What label is it on? Is it available in Jamaica? Nowadays, Internet services like Google, I-Tunes, YouTube, and Discogs will point you to the required location in seconds, and you can download the song immediately. So what used to take days or weeks now takes seconds. Other information, including pictures and graphics, is similarly available although it may be more costly. Then along came the smartphone and its plethora of apps. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, and many other services have made online sharing swift