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Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless
From: "Basgen, Brian" <bbasgen () PIMA EDU>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:49:35 -0700
1. Yes. Our WiFi is provided as a community service. Users are connected only to the external network. 2. No. 3. No. 4. I'm not aware of any illegal incident we've had on wifi. Instead, the illegal activity we've had has come from commons computers, libraries, sign-in stations, etc. It may seem counter-intuitive, but it seems that people doing illegal activity prefer an anonymous computer versus an anonymous network. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian Basgen Information Security Pima Community College From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Jerry Sell Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:21 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Pervasive Campus Wireless My superiors are interested in gathering some data concerning what other universities are providing open access guest wireless services on their campuses. It would be helpful to us if we could enlist your input on the following questions. 1. Does your university provide an open access Wifi system for guests on campus? 2. If so, does it have encryption of any kind setup? 3. Do you use a third-party subscription service such as Boingo, or do you have your own subscription service, or no subscription required? 4. If you don't require any authentication/subscription, how does your University feel about the risk of providing an anonymous platform that can be used for illegal activity? Have they accepted the risk? Do they not feel the risk is great enough to mitigate? Many thanks in advance to those who respond. Thank you, Jerry Sell, CISSP Security Analyst Brigham Young University (801)422-2730 Jerry_Sell () byu edu
Current thread:
- Pervasive Campus Wireless Jerry Sell (Jan 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Don C. Miller (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless HALL, NATHANIEL D. (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Mark Rogowski (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Di Fabio, Andrea (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Basgen, Brian (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Timothy Payne (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Tupker, Mike (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Theresa Semmens (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Dergenski, Todd A. (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Alex (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Randy Marchany (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Hugh Burley (Jan 22)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Dick Jacobson (Jan 23)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Barros, Jacob (Jan 23)
- Re: Pervasive Campus Wireless Basgen, Brian (Jan 23)
(Thread continues...)