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

["Cooper, Micah J" <micahcooper () CEDARVILLE EDU>]

As a Baptist university, we have always blocked porn sites. I’ve seen
reports both ways that it is a conduit for malware, but anything that
engages users for long period at a level that can make them “turn off”
higher reasoning centers (gambling, porn, the endless dopamine drip that is
youtube) and click for the next thing is an obvious vehicle. When you talk
to Splunk and other vendors, though, they’ll tell you about numerous
corporations blocking/monitoring porn sites for sexual harassment
compliance. In a past life at a public institution, I helped an
investigation after a female faculty member complained about another
faculty member’s browing habits with the door open, screen facing the hall.

It’s easy to provide exemptions for research. Otherwise, it’s just clogging
your pipes with risk.

Micah Cooper

*Associate Vice President for Technology & Chief Information Officer*
Information Technology
*Cedarville University*
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 11:10 PM Barton, Robert W. <bartonrt () lewisu edu>
wrote:

> 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
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> -------- 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*
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