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Church ministry no longer stops at the sanctuary door. Livestreams, online giving, prayer forms, volunteer platforms, email systems, and social channels now carry much of the weekly work. That reach is certainly important. But still, every new account creates another place where credentials, personal records, or payment information can slip into the wrong hands. Churches often manage this digital estate with small teams, rotating volunteers, and limited technical oversight.

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is the path of least resistance for gaining access to another Windows machine. It is built into the OS, it is free, and almost every admin and help desk technician already knows how to fire up mstsc.exe and type in a hostname-as simple as that. That convenience is exactly why RDP is everywhere inside corporate networks.

Someone in marketing starts using an AI writing tool. A finance team member feeds spreadsheets into an AI summariser because it saves an hour every Friday. A manager wires up a chatbot to handle basic customer questions. None of it goes anywhere near IT first, and most businesses only find out after the fact, if they find out at all.

For about three years, the governance question around AI meeting assistants had a convenient property: you could see them. The tool joined the call as a named participant. It appeared in the attendee list. Everyone in the meeting had at least the theoretical opportunity to object, and a security team reviewing an incident could reconstruct which meetings had been recorded by looking at who else was in them.