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Re: Guest WiFi Access


From: Mark Monroe <markm196 () NETSCAPE NET>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 11:15:29 -0500

No, it is home grown code that creates the account into a special OU in active dirctory... It puts logon locally restrictions on the accounts so they can only auth on the domain controllers and it puts them in groups that are not allowed to log into applications or things like the vpn.. essentially all they can do is auth.. and that lets them auth into bradford.. The only rights they have are deny rights to things..

Mark

On 9/9/2011 9:57 AM, Roger A Safian wrote:

Mark -- is the app that you have built in to Bradford? Can you share more information on the name, etc.? Thanks.

*From:*The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] *On Behalf Of *Mark Monroe
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*Subject:* Re: [SECURITY] Guest WiFi Access

We have port locking enabled on all wired ports on campus including labs/classes and offices.. This prevents the unplug option..

As for guests, I have an app, that faculty and staff can use to "vouch" for a guest and create an account for them that lasts 1, 3 or 7 days, the account is tied back to the creator, which is who I send the FBI to when they come calling.. the account only has permission to register their system on the guest wireless network (own firewall segment away from campus) and cannot auth on any campus computers or systems..

We use Bradford as our nac for wireless and all wired ports to do the registration.. if that matters..


Mark Monroe

Information Security Officer

University Of Missouri St. Louis

(314)516-4859




On 9/8/2011 11:41 AM, David Gillett wrote:

Dave Koontz wrote:
    Students, guests, and others can just plug themselves into any wired jack

without IT knowledge (in most

    organizations)... and they often do.  We find people unplugging lab

computers, printers, etc. and patching

    into the jack.

This is a recurring issue for us, too. We do have a couple of small areas
where wired jacks are deliberately provided for visitors to plug into, but
I'm talking about students who walk into a lab, unplug a computer provided
by the college, and plug their own device in instead.  Oh, and if they have
to cut a plastic tie-strap to do that, it barely slows them down.
    I don't believe CALEA has separate rules as to how someone accesses a

campus network or the internet, be it

    wired or wireless.  Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

I don't believe the questioner was asking about provisions of CALEA per
se, but about the FCC's ruling (early 2009 if I recall correctly) that
providers of *public* Internet access are bound by CALEA -- i.e., must have
resources in place to allow easy/prompt intercept and recording of voice
(VOIP) traffic.  My impression is that most higher-ed institutions have
chosen to shield themselves from this requirement by ensuring that their
networks are *private*, with the possible exception of areas where they
qualify for exemptions to the FCC ruling -- in libraries, for instance.
(We had an incident on one campus where an instructional assistant decided
to "fix" the limited coverage of our guest wireless by putting up his own
router, using our guest SSID, in an area that did not qualify....  If he had
simply reported the disappointing coverage, we would have explained to him
the legal constraint under which we operate.)
David Gillett, CISSP CCNP
Sr, Security Engineer
Foothill-De Anza College District



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