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Re: Guest Wireless Restrictions


From: "Childs, Aaron" <aaron () WESTFIELD MA EDU>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 20:26:01 +0000

Good Afternoon Mark,

At Westfield we've had Guest access on our wireless for a while.  They get a splash screen with a copy of our 
acceptable use policy which they must click accept at the bottom.  We restrict it to web browsing (http & https) and 
the establishment of VPN connections.  All other traffic is blocked.

Have a good day,
Aaron

Aaron Childs, CCNA
Associate Director, Networking
Information Technology
www.westfield.ma.edu/it 
Please Note: new e-mail address - aaron () westfield ma edu



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Mark
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 2:50 PM
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Subject: [SECURITY] Guest Wireless Restrictions

Many of us have some form of "Guest Wireless
Access", I am interested in what others are doing
in terms of restricting that access.
Do you:

Require any kind of registration or
authentication?
Restrict the bandwidth, or access to ports and
functionality in any way?
Do you allow P2P from the guest range?


Here at NEU we do not allow access to our
preferred resources or core systems (data centers
ect) from the guest range, but otherwise people
have most functionality. What we have been seeing
over the past year is an up-trend of people using
the guest range to download copyright material.
Our automated system will respond to complaints
from outside entities and notify students they are
in violation of our policies, but we do not have
that ability with the guest network.




Mark T. Nardone, CISSP, MIS

Director of Information Technology Security
Northeastern University 
177:22 Huntington
Boston , MA 02115 
617.373.7901 (desk) 
617.335.5082 (mobile)
617.373.6423 (fax) 
m.nardone () neu edu
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