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Wi-Fi student administrative system


From: James Farr '05 <jfarr () UTICA EDU>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:47:48 -0400

We are in the process of upgrading our Wi-Fi infrastructure and the topic of
using Student Administrative Systems on Wi-Fi has come up.
We currently only allow access limited to special circumstances and only
allow connections from certain networks which are encrypted.  Users want
Wi-Fi, I would prefer that they wait will a hard wire connection is
available. I am trying to balance usability with Security so I am wondering
how others feel.

Do you allow the use of Student Administrative systems via Wireless (Banner,
Datatel, PeopleSoft)
What type of protection do you use?  (encryption, the use of a NAC to put
people in special Vlans, Citrix/SGD, other)

James Farr
Information Security Officer
Instructional Technologist
Utica College
jfarr () utica edu
315-223-2386


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