Re: OT: vendor contacts after list posting

["Charles L. Bombard" <BombardC () CCV EDU>]

I too have been contacted by Vendors after posting. I have found them to
be professional, and in the nature of  quick notes  offering
conversations about what they have to offer. When ignored they have not
attempted another contact. I have yet to have one call me based on a
message posted. Yet is the probably the key word.  

 

 

-Charlie

 

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Community College of Vermont

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From: Tim M. Crawford [mailto:tcrawford () GSB STANFORD EDU] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:00 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] OT: vendor contacts after list posting

 

David,
I agree with you. I have had the same issue. Interestingly, it came up
in two discussions just yesterday here at the Educause Security
conference too. In one case, the discussion was around creating a
separate (non-Educause) list to discuss issues without the fear of
vendors engaging those in the discussion.

One option would be to require .edu addresses in order to participate on
these lists. But I don't know how viable that solution would be.

Tim


On 4/11/07 8:51 AM, "David Boyer" <David () BVU EDU> wrote:

For what it's worth, not long after making this posting I was contacted
by Bradford Networks about their NAC products. I'm not sure how everyone
else feels, but it's a real turn off for me when vendors troll these
constituent group discussions to generate sales leads. 
 
Maybe this is common practice and I'm just being naive. Any thoughts?

> > >   David Boyer wrote:

> Anyone familiar with Ciscos Network Admission Control (formerly Cisco 
> Clean Access, formerly Perfigo), Juniper Infranet, Symantec Network 
> Access Control or similar software/appliances?
>  
> Like many schools, we have a 1:1 ration of computers to students. We'd

> like to avoid letting vulnerable or malware-infected systems onto our 
> network while simultaneously addressing the infection or 
> vulnerability. Almost all of our systems are running Windows XP or 
> Windows 2000.
>  
> I'd be interested in hearing about your experiences with these or 
> similar solutions. Any open-source solutions that you know of?
>  



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