Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless

["Basgen, Brian" <bbasgen () PIMA EDU>]

1. Yes. Our WiFi is provided as a community service. Users are connected only to the external network.
2. No.
3. No.
4. I'm not aware of any illegal incident we've had on wifi. Instead, the illegal activity we've had has come from 
commons computers, libraries, sign-in stations, etc. It may seem counter-intuitive, but it seems that people doing 
illegal activity prefer an anonymous computer versus an anonymous network.

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Brian Basgen
Information Security
Pima Community College



From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Jerry 
Sell
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:21 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Pervasive Campus Wireless

My superiors are interested in gathering some data concerning what other universities are providing open access guest 
wireless services on their campuses.  It would be helpful to us if we could enlist your input on the following 
questions.

1. Does your university provide an open access Wifi system for guests on campus?

2. If so, does it have encryption of any kind setup?

3.  Do you use a third-party subscription service such as Boingo, or do you have your own subscription service, or no 
subscription required?

4. If you don't require any authentication/subscription, how does your University feel about the risk of providing an 
anonymous platform that can be used for illegal activity?  Have they accepted the risk?  Do they not feel the risk is 
great enough to mitigate?

Many thanks in advance to those who respond.

Thank you,

Jerry Sell, CISSP
Security Analyst
Brigham Young University
(801)422-2730
Jerry_Sell () byu edu