[MCN-L] Wireless in public spaces

[Ballate, Leo]

Hi Matt,

We did not have any problem during the period we offered wifi sans t&c's. 
However, our legal team is concerned about misuse. They cited some a few court 
cases centered around child pornography, attacks on other networks, ip 
spoofing, and a number of other issues that could present liability for the 
museum.  We are in very close proximity to Moscone Center, which very 
frequently hosts high tech conferences (hackers, security experts, etc.). These 
factors, in addition to the fact that many businesses in close proximity to the 
museum use our public wifi for their customers, led us to our decision. So far 
so good :-)

Best,
Leo Ballate
IT Director
SFMOMA
www.sfmoma.org

Check out our current podcast feature at http://www.sfmoma.org/podcasts
and Making Sense of Modern Art at http://www.sfmoma.org/msoma


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Morgan, Matt
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:13 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Wireless in public spaces

(snipping most of the thread out)

[Ballate, Leo]  We offered unfettered wifi access for a number of years. 
However, it was time to make sure we had t & c to protect us from any legal 
liability that could arise from public use of our wifi network.

Leo, did you have any problems during the time that you did not ask for a user 
agreement? What kinds of liability are you trying to defend against?

Thanks,
Matt


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[MCN-L] Wireless in public spaces

[Jeff L. La Clair]

Hello,

. We do not have an acceptable use policy at this time, but I do think it 
warrants one.  



1.  Are you providing free wireless Internet access to your visitors?  Yes 

- Are visitors required to authenticate to the wireless network, or is the 
network open?  The public wi-fi is broadcasted, but a guest will have to ask a 
guard\waiter\staff for the passcode.  Only Http and Https traffic is enabled 
for the public.


What considerations went into this decision?  We Wanted to give the public 
(visitors, presenters, artists, etc.) access to the Internet, but did not want 
them on our private network.  Many speakers, presenters, Auditors wanted access 
to the internet.  They either had to use our computers or reluctantly allowed 
them to plug into our network (auditors).


- Are visitor wireless sessions limited in any way:  no

- Do you provide SLA / service guarantees? No 

- What level of support (if any) do you provide to your visitors and their 
personal devices? None

2.  Do you support additional wireless networks at your institution for use by 
staff or systems (security, VoIP, etc.)?  We have Wi-Fi in select areas of the 
museum.  Over a year ago we started upgrading our Wi-Fi units to gain more 
control over what we were using in the past.
We have 9 units in place throughout the museum at this time with 3 more to be 
installed shortly. Most of the AP's are located in areas where we conduct 
meetings.  The private network is not broadcasted and only BMA devices have 
access (IT department are the only ones that know the password)

3.  Which equipment manufacturer did you select for the wireless network:
Cisco, Aruba, Aerohive, Meraki, etc.? Cisco

Any comments will be appreciated!  Went to a seminar a few weeks ago on a new 
wireless technology that does not require a controller ( seemed to have more 
redundancy built in and could also deploy these to home users or to users that 
need access to main network when in different state... plug it in and it 
connects back to main office... pretty cool. Aeronet was the name and had some 
other cool features as well.  Worth looking into.




Thank you,
Jeff La Clair, CNA, MCP, VCP

Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Dr
Baltimore, MD. 21218
W: 443-573-1596
E-mail: JLaclair at artbma.org

[MCN-L] Wireless in public spaces

[Juliet DeVries]

Hi Sam-

We have just launched a series on wireless access for museums on our blog.
 Here is the first post which I thought might be of interest:

http://blog.toursphere.com/2012/01/24/connectivity-for-visitors-part-i/

We will be diving in to the nitty gritty in the coming weeks so if you're
interested you can subscribe to the thread on the blog.

Best,
Juliet

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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Sam Quigley  wrote:

> Folks,
>
> It seems like a lot of people are talking about, or in fact retrofitting
> their old(er) buildings for wireless connectivity...
> I wonder if people might share their thoughts on the subject and, if so,
> maybe these questions might be useful as a starting point.
>
> 1.  Are you providing free wireless Internet access to your visitors?  If
> so:
>
> - Are visitors required to authenticate to the wireless network, or is the
> network open?  What considerations went into this decision?
>
> - Are visitor wireless sessions limited in any way:  duration limits,
> throughput limits, access restrictions?
>
> - Do you provide SLA / service guarantees?
>
> - What level of support (if any) do you provide to your visitors and their
> personal devices?
>
> 2.  Do you support additional wireless networks at your institution for use
> by staff or systems (security, VoIP, etc.)?
>
> 3.  Which equipment manufacturer did you select for the wireless network:
> Cisco, Aruba, Aerohive, Meraki, etc.?
>
> Any comments will be appreciated!
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> Information Technology / Museum CIO
> Art Institute of Chicago
> 111 S. Michigan Ave.
> Chicago, IL  60603
> 312-443-4772
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[MCN-L] Wireless in public spaces

[Morgan, Matt]

(snipping most of the thread out)

[Ballate, Leo]  We offered unfettered wifi access for a number of years. 
However, it was time to make sure we had t & c to protect us from any legal 
liability that could arise from public use of our wifi network.

Leo, did you have any problems during the time that you did not ask for a user 
agreement? What kinds of liability are you trying to defend against?

Thanks,
Matt

[MCN-L] Wireless in public spaces

[Nik Honeysett]

Sam,
 
We have free access at the Getty in public spaces and selected galleries as 
part of our Google Goggles rollout. We intend to make access ubiquitous in all 
galleries over the coming months. Like SFMOMA, we have a t&c accept screen for 
liability issues and we have a DHCP release after 20 mins of inactivity.
 
But our biggest challenge is the t&c accept screen. Because its an app, any 
visitor who comes in and tries to Goggle a work will have an unhappy experience 
unless they have first opened a browser and accessed our network. Legal won't 
budge on the t&c, IT are unable to packet-sniff to filter out browser vs app 
network requests, so our workaround has been to train Security to approach any 
visitors waving a smartphone around and check whether they have opened a 
browser - this has actually been very successful.
 
-nik

 
 
Nik Honeysett
Head of Administration
J. Paul Getty Museum
tel: 310-440-7346
fax: 310-440-7751
nhoneysett at getty.edu
>>> "Ballate, Leo"  1/24/2012 2:02 PM >>>
Hi Sam,

We have had free public WiFi here at SFMOMA for some time and have been very 
happy with its success. Our visitors, guests, and staff really love this 
service. See my responses below:

Leo Ballate
IT Director
SFMOMA
www.sfmoma.org

Check out our current podcast feature at http://www.sfmoma.org/podcasts
and Making Sense of Modern Art at http://www.sfmoma.org/msoma

-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Sam 
Quigley
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:29 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] Wireless in public spaces

Folks,

It seems like a lot of people are talking about, or in fact retrofitting their 
old(er) buildings for wireless connectivity...
I wonder if people might share their thoughts on the subject and, if so, maybe 
these questions might be useful as a starting point.

1.  Are you providing free wireless Internet access to your visitors?  
[Ballate, Leo]  Yes If
so:

- Are visitors required to authenticate to the wireless network, or is the 
network open?  [Ballate, Leo]  The network is open, but users must accept our 
terms and conditions of use (see attached) before they can use the public wifi.
What considerations went into this decision?[Ballate, Leo]  We offered 
unfettered wifi access for a number of years. However, it was time to make sure 
we had t & c to protect us from any legal liability that could arise from 
public use of our wifi network.

- Are visitor wireless sessions limited in any way:  duration limits, 
throughput limits, access restrictions?[Ballate, Leo]  No, however, our DHCP 
server issues leases for only 30 minutes.

- Do you provide SLA / service guarantees?[Ballate, Leo]  No (see attached 
terms and conditions)

- What level of support (if any) do you provide to your visitors and their 
personal devices?[Ballate, Leo]  None

2.  Do you support additional wireless networks at your institution for use by 
staff or systems (security, VoIP, etc.)?[Ballate, Leo]  Yes, we expose our 
internal lan (WPA2), but do not broadcast the SSID. We allow a handful of 
museum owned devices to access our internal lan via Wifi. We change the 
password for the internal wifi lan on a regular basis. We are investigating 
local certificates to beef up security when accessing the internal lan via wifi.

3.  Which equipment manufacturer did you select for the wireless network:
Cisco, Aruba, Aerohive, Meraki, etc.?[Ballate, Leo]  Extreme networks.

Any comments will be appreciated![Ballate, Leo]  Good luck on your research and 
let us know how it goes!
--
Sam Quigley
VP for Collections Management, Imaging & Information Technology / Museum CIO 
Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL  60603
312-443-4772
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