Re: Vetting New Devices

[Harry Hoffman <hhoffman () IP-SOLUTIONS NET>]

Wow, that's a really interesting case (about the wireless devices)!
Do you have a make/model to do facilitate research?


Cheers,
Harry

On 04/03/2013 11:20 AM, David Gillett wrote:
>   We don't have residences, so Harry's actual question is moot in our case.
>
>   HOWEVER, when I saw the Subject: header, I immediately thought of some of the stuff that staff and faculty install 
> without consulting us.  Some of it comes configured as an access point "out of the box", often apparently without the 
> purchaser's knowledge (or understanding)...  And some of those play nasty tricks like incrementing their wireless MAC 
> address every 60-90 seconds, apparently in an attitude I've taken to calling "90-pound gorilla mode", where they just 
> kind of kick sand in the face of our "official" campus wireless services.  IF we made such purchases go through a 
> vetting process, they wouldn't pass....
>
> David Gillett, CISSP CCNP
> Sr Security Engineer
> Foothill-De Anza College District