Re: Wireless Networks - to hide or not to hide

["T. Shayne Ghere" <sghere () FSMAIL BRADLEY EDU>]

Hello Anne,



We do have an open SSID that the students can connect to; however they need
to be registered with our own home grown registration system.  If they
aren’t registered, they can try as much as they want, but cannot connect to
it even if they hard code the IP/DNS information in.



We made this decision about 2 years ago after we had tested it internally
for about 10 weeks.  We even had students come in with their own devices
and try to get on that SSID, but they were never successful so we felt it
safe to roll it out.  We’re a complete Cisco Shop, so things might be
different on your end, but at one point it was hidden and we had the same
issues trying to keep things connected to hidden SSID’s.



We won’t support anything registered on this network because it’s a BYOD
network, so if you’re using it and having problems, we’re not going to
troubleshoot it for you.



Take care

Shayne



*From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] *On Behalf Of *Ian McDonald
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:54 AM
*To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
*Subject:* Re: [SECURITY] Wireless Networks - to hide or not to hide



Hi,

We simply don't support anything that won't connect to the enterprise
network (we are an enterprise, after all).

I note that there are devices in your list which will connect to an
enterprise network (raspberry pi for example), and others that would be
better suited to be on a wired connection..


Thanks

--
ian

Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity and misspelling.
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*From: *Wood, Anne (wood) <wood () JUNIATA EDU>
*Sent: *‎14/‎05/‎2014 17:34
*To: *SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
*Subject: *[SECURITY] Wireless Networks - to hide or not to hide

Hi,

Our Campus Technology Services group has been testing in-house solutions
that use wireless devices that do not connect to WPA2-Enterprise networks,
such as Apple-Tvs, Rokus, Raspberry Pis, Ubiquiti power/monitoring
controllers, etc.  We initially set up a test hidden ssid using Mac address
filtering to get a sense for how these devices might be connected to our
wireless network without causing additional confusion and/or curiosity
within our user community.  We are finding that several of these devices
are not able to maintain reliable connections to a hidden ssid and I have
been asked to unhide this network.

I am curious if others have made decisions on supporting these types of
wireless devices on their networks, why those decisions have been made (to
support or not), and any advice that may offered to help guide my decision.

Thanks so much!
Anne


Anne M. Wood
Assistant VP & CIO
Juniata College



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