Hector J Rios wrote:
Once in a while we get calls from the university police department
asking us to search for stolen laptops. We use the stolen laptop’s MAC
address to search in both DHCP and WCS (we are a Cisco shop). We’ve
never been successful in recovering a stolen laptop. So far the
thieves have been smart enough not to ever bring those laptops back
into our campus. I’m curious to know if any of you have come up with a
way to automate the detection of a wireless device. Something like
waiting for a laptop’s MAC to come on the wireless network and
immediately sending an email to an operator.
Thanks,
Hector Rios
Louisiana State University
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At Michigan Tech. we use the AirWave Management Platform to manage our
WiFi network. We work with a campus IT security officer and Public
Safety to try to identify and collect the MAC on stolen devices. We have
put a trigger in AMP that will send an email to the security folks on
association of a stolen MAC addresses. I don't recall any finds, but we
have the system in place to catch them.
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Shane Allan Godmere
Senior Telecommunications Engineer II
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Dr. EERC-B30
Houghton, MI 49931
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