Re: Gaming and dorm students

["King, Ronald A." <raking () NSU EDU>]

Our IPS has separate filters for games and BitTorrent.  We successfully
block BitTorrent with the dedicated filters and allow those designated for
the games.  WOW has two filters, one for authentication and one for the
game.

 

Ronald King

Security Engineer

Norfolk State University

http://security.nsu.edu <http://security.nsu.edu/> 

 

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Williamson
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 9:24 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Gaming and dorm students

 

I am the network admin at a small K-12 private school.  We have about 90
dorm students.

 

A problem I am running into is enabling the dorm students to be able to use
normal games like "World of Wrcraft", "League of Legends", etc.  It seems a
lot of these games are using bittorrent on the backend.

 

Without digging into the specifics, how are others handling the dormers
requests?  Telling them no does not seem appropriate, but not letting them
play seems bogus.  I was toying with the idea of having the individuals sign
a sheet saying they will not use bittorent for illegal purposes.

 

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

Note that I am using a Palo Alto so can handle filtering by user and app
level.

 

Bob Williamson
Network Administrator
Annie Wright Schools | 827 N Tacoma Ave, Tacoma, WA 98403 | www.aw.org
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