Kurtis, If students are using an open SSID as a general purpose wireless network, you may want to require them to fire up a VPN session to get to trusted resources (LMS, scheduling, bursar, etc). Thanks, Brad
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Community Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Kurtis Olsen Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2019 11:18 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Feasibility of an open SSID for student use We have been receiving a lot of complaints about a complicated onboarding process and have been asked to look at providing an Open SSID that has little to no onboarding. I see an advantage being the ease of connecting but I have some concerns, mainly about providing a secure environment. Our current onboarding process works like this. Users connect to our Wolverine-WIFI SSID. They then authenticate through our NAC solution which forces laptops to download a client. This client scans their device for Antivirus and OS updates. If it fails the scan they have access to get these updates. Once it passes they are moved to our wireless production vLan. There are no clients or scans for cellular devices at this time. Users then of the option to join our Wolverine-Secure which authenticates by cert using SecureW2's services. I am curious if anyone else is using a completely open network for their general population or any other suggestions of how this can be simplified. Kurtis Olsen Director - Network & Telecom Utah Valley University 800 W University Prkway Orem, UT 84058 801-863-8000 ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community