[fw-wiz] Discretionary WiFi Access

From: Dave Null (noid23_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/07/05

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Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:46:38 -0700

    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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