Re: Access to Porn sites?

["Howard, Christopher" <Christopher-Howard () UTC EDU>]

We only block it for one use case - public kiosks. Anyone or anything else can still access it if they wanted to.

We have some kiosks scattered around campus. Big 30-40in touch screens in plain view that people can use to get campus 
info or directions to other campus locations. Not even a full week after they were deployed we got a frantic call that 
there was an adult video playing full screen in the cafeteria during lunch time. We've been assured that the browser is 
inaccessible on those now, but we still block it for the kiosks through the URL filter in our Palo Altos just in case. 
It's not perfect though, a Google image search, or reddit/imgur can still get you to at least pictures.

-Christopher


On Wed, 2019-08-14 at 16:07 -0700, Babak Oskouian 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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