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Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless
From: "HALL, NATHANIEL D." <halln () OTC EDU>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:33:30 -0600
The way we provide Internet access to guests is to issue them a guest account. To obtain this account their IDs are checked and they are required to sign for it. Our Internet access for guest computers is separate from our internal systems. The wireless itself does not use encryption, but the user is required to login via an SSL webpage that is located on a Netfilter firewall. Once authenticated, the user is logged in until 4:00AM. -- Nathaniel Hall, GSEC GCFW GCIA GCIH GCFA Network Security System Administrator OTC Computer Networking Office: (417) 447-7535 From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Jerry Sell Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:21 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Pervasive Campus Wireless My superiors are interested in gathering some data concerning what other universities are providing open access guest wireless services on their campuses. It would be helpful to us if we could enlist your input on the following questions. 1. Does your university provide an open access Wifi system for guests on campus? 2. If so, does it have encryption of any kind setup? 3. Do you use a third-party subscription service such as Boingo, or do you have your own subscription service, or no subscription required? 4. If you don't require any authentication/subscription, how does your University feel about the risk of providing an anonymous platform that can be used for illegal activity? Have they accepted the risk? Do they not feel the risk is great enough to mitigate? Many thanks in advance to those who respond. Thank you, Jerry Sell, CISSP Security Analyst Brigham Young University (801)422-2730 Jerry_Sell () byu edu<mailto:Jerry_Sell () byu edu>
Current thread:
- Pervasive Campus Wireless Jerry Sell (Jan 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Don C. Miller (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless HALL, NATHANIEL D. (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Mark Rogowski (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Di Fabio, Andrea (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Basgen, Brian (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Timothy Payne (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Tupker, Mike (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Theresa Semmens (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Dergenski, Todd A. (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Alex (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Randy Marchany (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Hugh Burley (Jan 22)
(Thread continues...)