Re: Discretionary WiFi Access

[Josh Welch <jwelch () buffalowildwings com>]

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

I have setup an access point outside of our firewall for this express
purpose. It is wide open and I simply monitor port usage to keep an eye
out for any abuse, it hasn't been an issue so far.

Josh
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