Re: Xbox

["Walter E. Petruska" <wpetruska () USFCA EDU>]

Currently, we make the student bring their X-box game console into our
helpdesk, where we then pull off the MAC address.

We've got a special Cisco NAC rule for gamers, and we add their game
console to this special group.

Voila, they have gaming, and we keep our end-point security.

It's not without some hassle, but it works well for us.

Walter Petruska
Information Security Officer
University of San Francisco

-----Original Message-----
From: jkaftan [mailto:jkaftan () UTICA EDU] 
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 12:21 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Xbox

We have more and more students wanting to get their Xbox's and other
gaming
consoles on the network.  We have decided to allow it.  However there is
a
problem with them being able to connect to each other on the internet -
inbound ports.  They are requesting inbound ports being opened.  Due to
our
NAT and DHCP this would be ugly at best.  However security is our
biggest
concern.

Have your students been asking for this?  Has anyone found a way to give
the
students what they want securely and easily?