Re: Access to Porn sites?

[WALTER KERNER <walter_kerner () FITNYC EDU>]

We don’t block.  A lot of sites that are useful to our photography, fashion
design, and illustration classes get picked up in the filters.

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 7:40 PM Ralph Hogaboom <ralph.hogaboom () ghc edu>
wrote:

> We block porn, gambling, and hate speech on all wireless. We’ll likely do
> more on our Palo’s once they get installed.
>
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> 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.
>
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>
> 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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> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <
> SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> *On Behalf Of *Jacobs, Mike
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 14, 2019 4:13 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [SECURITY] Access to Porn sites?
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> 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
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> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <
> SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> on behalf of Babak Oskouian <
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 14, 2019 7:07:55 PM
> *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
> *Subject:* [SECURITY] Access to Porn sites?
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>
> 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
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> * Babak Oskouian, Ph.D. | Campus Network Engineer | Information Security
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