Re: Access to Porn sites?

[Ralph Hogaboom <ralph.hogaboom () GHC EDU>]

We block porn, gambling, and hate speech on all wireless. We'll likely do more on our Palo's once they get installed.

Academic freedom grants instructors the rights to teach whatever they want in the class room. It does not mean the 
college provides access to anything and everything. It does not dictate exposure of client computers to categories of 
websites with a poor track record for malicious behavior. If the instructor wants to teach that material in their 
classroom, they may do so. Like much of their other material, they must then provide it.

We've had zero issues here. If one comes up, I'm sure we'll be happy to work with the faculty to make sure they can do 
what is needed.

Ralph Hogaboom
Grays Harbor College
Aberdeen, WA

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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Access to Porn sites?

We are considering the same.  It was tried a few years ago and undone due to a lot of pushback.  We are trying again 
using security concerns ad one of the justifications.  We already stopped gambling sites with no fallout.
I would be interested to hear others experiences with it.  We will be using Checkpoint to do our filtering.

Thanks,
Mike Jacobs
Director IT Services & Chief Information Officer
Oglethorpe University
4484 Peachtree Rd. NE
Atlanta, GA 30319
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Subject: [SECURITY] Access to Porn sites?

Hi All,

We at Mills College have been kicking around the idea of blocking access to porn sites on our network. Needless to say, 
we have gotten some push back. Our plan (if it is green-lighted) is to use the built-in "adult" filters that our Palo 
Alto firewall provides.
I am curious as to how many of you block porn sites, and if you do and especially if you use a Palo Alto device, have 
you had to do a lot of fine-tuning of your filters to eliminate false-positives?

Thanks.

Babak


Babak Oskouian, Ph.D. | Campus Network Engineer | Information Security Officer

Mills College | 5000 MacArthur Blvd | Oakland, CA 94613-1301

Office: Stern Hall 007; Phone: 510-430-2224<tel:510-430-2224>

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