Re: Do you block P2P ?

[David Gillett <gillettdavid () FHDA EDU>]

  We would prefer to rate-limit them, but don't yet have equipment that can,
so we block them.

  Two or three times, departments have come to us saying they need
BitTorrent 
in order to stay current with updates.  We've offered to help them set up
with a static address and no redistribution -- and they have magically found

some viable alternative.

  We have ONCE, so far, had someone come to use with an academic need to run

Skype on a particular machine on our network.

  (We don't have residences on campus.  So far as we can tell, most of our
P2P
attempts come from laptops that "live" somewhere else but are visiting our
campus for the day.)

David Gillett


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Isac Balder [mailto:piis8 () YAHOO COM] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:22 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Do you block P2P ?
>
> Yes,  Or at least that which is identified by the chosed IPS 
> solution.  We also shape the traffic should it get past the IPS.
>
> We have been doing so for five years or more and receive very 
> few complaints.  It is also in our acceptable policy that the 
> network is provided for acedemic use.
>
> We are open to waivers for research groups, but no takers on 
> that option.
>
> We get very few complaints but we have been loudly stating 
> our block for a while so I believe it is reluctantly accepted 
> these days.
>
> As a result (knock on wood) we average about 1 or 2 "Cease 
> and Desist" complaints a year.
>
> I.B.
>
> "top posting cause yahoo makes me..."
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> --- On Thu, 9/3/09, mike corcoran <mike.corcoran () WRIGHT EDU> wrote:
>
> > From: mike corcoran <mike.corcoran () WRIGHT EDU>
> > Subject: [SECURITY] Do you block P2P ?
> > To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> > Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 3:12 PM How many of you 
> block P2P 
> > on your campus?  If you do block it, how many complaints do you 
> > receive because of it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
> > --
> > Mike Corcoran, Systems Security Engineer Wright State University, 
> > Information Security Voice:937-775-2431, Fax:937-775-4049 
> > http://www.wright.edu/security/
> >
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