Re: Allowing Student Laptops to Connect to School Network

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

We allow our student unrestricted access to the internet and internet II,
our policy is called "Free Love"
<http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0266.pdf>, which means that
anyone can get an IP address just about anywhere on our campus without
registering.

We have a system to limit bandwidth abuse both up and down and have
developed tools to let us find bot networks and other compromised machines.
Our compromised machine policy is that you will be asked to reformat your
machine if it is compromised .. after a few times, most students learn all
about automatic updates.  We do a very heavy educational push about
updates, AV (we supply free Symantec to all) and we are asking everyone to
install SP2 and make sure that the firewall is turned on.

Our capture system lets us take machines off the network by MAC address,
which also works on our wireless network.

As was said before Good Luck.

Joel Rosenblatt

Joel Rosenblatt, Senior Security Officer & Windows Specialist, AcIS
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel


--On Wednesday, October 20, 2004 2:16 PM -0500 Michelle Mueller
<muellerm () MTMARY EDU> wrote:

> We've been asked to come up with a proprosal for allowing students to
> bring their personal laptops on campus and connect to our network.  At
> best we're looking at simply Internet access.  At worst we're looking at
> access to their network drive, printing, and wireless access.  Currently,
> students need to log into a Microsoft domain on a school computer to get
> their network drive, Internet access, and to print.
>
> Do any of you have to provide Internet and/or network access to your
> students personal computers?  How did you go about this?  What security
> issues have you encountered?
>
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Joel Rosenblatt, Senior Security Officer & Windows Specialist, AcIS
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel

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