College Support of VPN on open Wi-Fi

[James Farr <jfarr () UTICA EDU>]

We have employees who require access to College resources from off campus.
These users request access, go through a vetting process, then are provided
a College managed VPN solution.



We also have employees who may be traveling and only need College email or
cloud storage.  We encourage the use of VPN’s on open wireless networks.
We are evaluating what level of support we want to offer employees whose
only Wi-Fi interactions with college resources are email and cloud
storage?  (Box, Google Drive, Microsoft 360,).



Does your institution allow users only checking email or cloud storage to:



·         Connect to College managed VPN with Internet only permission

·         Connect to College managed VPN with access to Internet and
restricted access resources

·         Encourage the use a third party VPN service

o   If yes, does the employee or institution pay for this

·         Does the support vary based on device type, (laptop, tablet,
smartphone)

·         Other



James Farr ’05 G’12

Director of Information Security and Network Specialist

Utica College

jfarr () utica edu

315-223-2386