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RE: Discretionary WiFi Access
From: "Jose Varghese" <jose.varghese () paladion net>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:18:45 +0530
Keeping it simple:Physical segregation and only Internet access Provide access points ONLY at cafeterias and conference rooms. Have separate L2, L3 devices for these access points and donor interface at any point with the company LAN.Limit signal strength to within your premises. Have a separate Firewall and provide outbound access, with standard gateway controls like AV, URL filter . --------------------------------------------- Some companies implement MAC-address-locking for guests. Give your driving license and take a wireless card. U always remember to take your license back. Jose Varghese Paladion Networks Application Security Magazine http://palisade.paladion.net -----Original Message----- From: firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () honor icsalabs com] On Behalf Of Dave Null Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 2:17 AM To: firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com Subject: [fw-wiz] Discretionary WiFi Access Its not firewall related, but there's some smart minds on this list. My company has started looking into campus-wide WiFi. I'll keep my personal feeling on this to myself though. One thing that keeps comming up is that one of the largest user communities that would take advantage of this would be non-employees. Vendors, Salesmen, people meeting with GMs/VPs/Execs are probably going to be the main users of this. My question is, if you currently have a similar situation in your work environment, how do you handle granting these people temp/guest WiFi access. Access controls for employees can be fairly stringent (i.e. only connect from company owned assets who's MAC is inventoried, use of 2 factor authentication, etc), but a lot of this isnt applicable for temporary visitors. I know one company that would give you a WiFi card when you signed in that was in their database of 'allowed' MAC addresses (I know, dont get me started on MAC spoofing), however I would bet cash money that those cards walked away regularly. Similar thing with issuing a temporary token fob (SecureID or the like). I know the easy answer here is 'Dont give them WiFi access', but I don't think that is going to be an option. Thoughts, comments, flames? -noid _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Discretionary WiFi Access Dave Null (Jul 07)
- Re: Discretionary WiFi Access John Adams (Jul 08)
- Re: Discretionary WiFi Access Sp0oKeR Labs (Jul 08)
- Re: Discretionary WiFi Access Kevin (Jul 08)
- RE: Discretionary WiFi Access Jose Varghese (Jul 08)
- Re: Discretionary WiFi Access Brenno Hiemstra (Jul 14)
- RE: Discretionary WiFi Access StefanDorn (Jul 14)
- Re: Discretionary WiFi Access Vinicius Moreira Mello (Jul 21)
- Re: Discretionary WiFi Access Jim Seymour (Jul 21)
- Re: Discretionary WiFi Access Josh Welch (Jul 14)
- Re: Discretionary WiFi Access Paul D. Robertson (Jul 21)
- Re: Discretionary WiFi Access Jim Seymour (Jul 21)
- Re: Discretionary WiFi Access Josh Welch (Jul 22)
- Re: Discretionary WiFi Access Roger Rustad (Jul 21)
- Re: Discretionary WiFi Access Josh Welch (Jul 22)
- Re: Discretionary WiFi Access Paul D. Robertson (Jul 21)