EDUCAUSE Live Event: Improving Security Through Automated Policy Enforcement

[Rodney Petersen <rpetersen () EDUCAUSE EDU>]

I would like to bring to your attention a  free, interactive web seminar
on "Improving Security Through Automated Policy Enforcement" scheduled
for next Friday, November 12th, 1-2 p.m.  More details and registration
information is available at http://www.educause.edu/LIVE0413
This seminar will highlight concepts as well as steps that institutions
have taken to secure unmanaged computers, especially on residential
networks.  Although the seminar will specifically describe effective
practices and solutions from the University of Connecticut, New York
University, and Lewis & Clark College, we would love to highlight other
campus approaches.  There are two ways that you can contribute to this
presentation and future outreach efforts related to this topic:
1.  Submit your campus implementation as an Effective Security Practice
by completing the submission form available at www.educause.edu/ep  The
submission form will allow you to describe your approach, benefits,
shortcomings, and future plans.  Your campus submission will also be
linked to from the Effective Security Practices Guide
(www.educause.edu/security/guide) and will be a helpful resource for the
community.
2.  Respond to this email by describing how your institution has
automated security policy enforcement.  Phil Rodriguez from NYU, one of
the presenters for the seminar, has suggested that there are five basic
things that institutions are doing:
a) Registration - Active External Detection - DHCP Isolation - NAT/DNS
External Remediation
b) Registration - Active External Detection - VLAN Isolation - Local
Remediation
c) Registration - Agent Detection - Inline Isolation - X Remediation
d) Registration - Passive Detection - Inline Isolation - Local
Remediation
e) Registration - Homegrown Agent Detect. - X Isolation - X Remediation
We would love to get examples from each of these categories.  So, please
consider submitting an Effective Security Practices using the submission
form (www.educause.edu/ep) or let us know what steps you have taken that
you consider effective for your environment.
Thanks,
-Rodney
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Rodney J. Petersen
Policy Analyst & Security Task Force Coordinator

EDUCAUSE 
1150 18th Street, N.W., Suite 1010
Washington, D.C.  20036
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