On 10/02/2016 22:09, Mike Copeland wrote:
I've gone 180 degrees on the WIFI at work issue over the last year. I was the original "that's tough, use your data plan" guy, but as I've dealt with problems (people getting on the WIFI access in the building which was installed for the management to use their laptops on...."hey! How did you get the password?" "Oh, Bob told me...") I've given up and decided that a safe (emphasis on my data network being SAFE) WIFI service with a fairly simple password that changed every 30 days is the best approach.
We have 3 tiers of wifi connections: an SSID for internal employees only. An SSID for guests (clients) and an SSID for personal devices. The last 2 are on a different subnet to the employee one so we are safe. Bandwidth limits for each connection have been set. We tell everyone that any personal devices found to be connected to the internal SSID will be blocked from ALL connections.
"Bring your tablets! Connect your cell! Come one come all! Connect all day, stay all night!" works a lot better than fighting and searching for rogue hardware that has been plugged in to USB ports.
We have just introduced some software that blocks things plugged into USB ports that have not been authorised. http://www.endpointprotector.com/ Sometimes a bit fiddly setting things up but seems to work ok. We need to run it longer to evaluate it fully.
Peter
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