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Re: Discretionary WiFi Access


From: Sp0oKeR Labs <spooker () spooker com br>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:37:11 -0300

Some features with linux box

- ebtables
- snort
- nocat (authentication) http://nocat.net/

Regards,

Sp0oKeR

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 17:46, Dave Null wrote:
Its not firewall related, but there's some smart minds on this list.
My company has started looking into campus-wide WiFi. I'll keep my
personal feeling on this to myself though. One thing that keeps
comming up is that one of the largest user communities that would take
advantage of this would be non-employees. Vendors, Salesmen, people
meeting with GMs/VPs/Execs are probably going to be the main users of
this. My question is, if you currently have a similar situation in
your work environment, how do you handle granting these people
temp/guest WiFi access.

Access controls for employees can be fairly stringent (i.e. only
connect from company owned assets who's MAC is inventoried, use of 2
factor authentication, etc), but a lot of this isnt applicable for
temporary visitors. I know one company that would give you a WiFi card
when you signed in that was in their database of 'allowed' MAC
addresses (I know, dont get me started on MAC spoofing), however I
would bet cash money that those cards walked away regularly. Similar
thing with issuing a temporary token fob (SecureID or the like).

I know the easy answer here is 'Dont give them WiFi access', but I
don't think that is going to be an option. Thoughts, comments, flames?

                           -noid
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