Re: Wi-Fi student administrative system

["Shalla, Kevin" <kshalla () UIC EDU>]

Doesn't ssl protect against a hostile network in this situation?  Or is it
still subject to man-in-the-middle or other attacks?

On Mon, August 30, 2010 9:47 am, James Farr '05 wrote:
> We are in the process of upgrading our Wi-Fi infrastructure and the topic
> of
> using Student Administrative Systems on Wi-Fi has come up.
> We currently only allow access limited to special circumstances and only
> allow connections from certain networks which are encrypted.  Users want
> Wi-Fi, I would prefer that they wait will a hard wire connection is
> available. I am trying to balance usability with Security so I am
> wondering
> how others feel.
>
> Do you allow the use of Student Administrative systems via Wireless
> (Banner,
> Datatel, PeopleSoft)
> What type of protection do you use?  (encryption, the use of a NAC to put
> people in special Vlans, Citrix/SGD, other)
>
> James Farr
> Information Security Officer
> Instructional Technologist
> Utica College
> jfarr () utica edu
> 315-223-2386