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Re: Protecting computers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Voelker)
Thu Jun 23 14:14:09 2011
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:08:03 -0400
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From: Andy Voelker <avoelker@EMAIL.WCU.EDU>
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A Proxy appliance might be just the thing for you. Look in to Barracuda,
Blue Coat, or Tipping Point. All these companies provide an appliance
that can filter out web malware before it hits the computer. You can also
filter by category, so you can block off suspicious sites, peer to peer
sites, hacking sites, or even shopping, porn, and games. Of course this
is only while they are connected to your network. Blue Coat has a proxy
client that can be installed on the local machine that will replicate this
protection from off campus. This is very handy and very effective. We
block malware and suspicious only and we reduced our malware problems
drastically.
They are expensive.... Sorry about that.
-- Andy Voelker
Manager of Student Computing in the Technology Commons
Western Carolina University
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On 6/14/11 8:28 AM, "Breeyear, Susan" <sbreeyear@smcvt.edu> wrote:
>We are trying to find a solution to the problem of campus computer users
>using their mobile computers for non-College purposes (playing games,
>letting their kids use the computers, shopping, etc.) We've found that
>the need to reimage, due mainly to malware attacks, has increased, even
>though Microsoft ForeFront and WebRoot are installed and active on these
>computers. How do other schools handle laptop use? Have you found any
>way to keep people from "personalizing" their College-owned computers?
>Do you have any policies that keep faculty and staff from using their
>business computers for non-business activities? We don't want to
>completely lock the computers down, but need to find a way to stop people
>from continually "catching" malware.
>
>Thanks for your input.
>
>Susan Breeyear
>Associate Director, Technology Learning Center
>Information Technology
>Saint Michaels College
>Colchester, VT 05439
>
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