On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:32 AM, C. Falconer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've seen a site that put every user in their own VLAN, so a user's
> phone/pc/laptop could only see the firewall, and everything was routed
> through that to servers etc.  Was utterly ridiculous, an example of
> using tools to define the problem.

Not necessarily a bad thing to do; it addresses an edge case where
devices might be attacking each other (i.e. a virus spread, or even
unauthorized copying of sensitive files). You should balance the risk
of this threat (i.e. how likely it is to happen && how much damage it
could cause) against the cost of managing the VLAN infrastructure --
and if you already had great automation/tools to manage the VLAN
setup, that would be a low cost.

-jim

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