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Re: Network access control


From: Wes Young <wcyoung () BUFFALO EDU>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:22:33 -0500

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 08:17 +1300, Russell Fulton wrote:
we use packetfence (which hooks up to snort) to automatically quarantine
suspected infected machine on our residence network.  Students have to
call the help desk and I am almost never involved.

Do they get a "first strike, fix it yourself" ? or just tagged, bagged
and forced to hit the helpdesk on first incident?
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Wes Young
Network Security Analyst
University at Buffalo
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