Re: Access to Porn sites?

["Barton, Robert W." <bartonrt () LEWISU EDU>]

Are there any studies showing how porn sites or are not used for malicious software distribution? I've seen it, but see 
it once is anecdotal....



Robert Barton
Executive Director of Information Security & Policy
Lewis University
One University Parkway
Romeoville, IL  60446-2200
815-836-5663


-------- Original message --------
From: Brian Epstein <bepstein () IAS EDU>
Date: 8/14/19 7:01 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Access to Porn sites?

We do not block access to porn sites on our campus.  We view uncensored access to the Internet as a right for academics 
and would never block a non malicious site.  I think that the push back is warranted, and would need to understand 
better why you would ever want to do this.

Thanks,
Brian

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On Aug 14, 2019 19:08, Babak Oskouian <boskouia () MILLS EDU> wrote:
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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