Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Stolen Wireless Device Tracking?

[Justin Hao]

We've actually used airwave to solve this issue.  It has the capability to flag and email/alert when the stolen MAC address appears anywhere on the wireless network.  Also it can physically locate the device within VisualRF (mapping/location services).  We located a "stolen" library laptop when it was plugged back into it's charging cart after being "lost" for weeks. -- Justin Hao Network Engineer Texas A&M University Networking and Information Security j...@tamu.edu Lee H Badman wrote: Unfortunately, we experience the occasional theft of University-owned or personal laptops. Using Cisco WCS, we can certainly find the last place a device was, if the wireless adapter was on, before it egressed campus. What is missing is a mechanism to “flag” a MAC address to alert on a client device if it pops back up on the network so there may be an opportunity to react.   Has anyone else faced and conquered alerting on specific clients (for whatever reason)?   Thanks-   Lee   Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Adjunct Instructor, iSchool Syracuse University 315 443-3003       ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. -- Justin Hao Network Engineer Texas A&M University Networking and Information Security j...@tamu.edu (979)862-2162 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.