From: Jennifer Gwirtz (jgwirtz@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 12:42:34 PST
Hello everyone,
My apologies for any redundancy with past e-mails.
This is a request for advice about firewall protection for a small
department and its even smaller computer lab.
We are a very small department with a tiny graduate student computer
lab that has 3 iMacs, 2 PCs, and possibly hundreds of users. Many
graduate students insist on using services like Hotmail, which has
recently brought all kinds of bad things into the network.
We are running Norton AV and keep it and system software updated
regularly. Nevertheless, certain people use the lab carelessly, no
matter what sort of rules I make. (I'm sure many of you who manage
labs experience something similar.)
The only option I can see next would be to purchase a firewall for
the department to keep us notified of activity and to deny access to
mischief. Does this sound like the right thing to do?
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what we can do? Because we
don't run our own server, I manage the computers individually. I am
the only person who does this. Anything that's too labor-intensive
won't work. Unless it includes human cloning software. (Just joking.)
I'm pretty happy with my home version of Norton's firewall. Can we
use something like that in our campus offices and lab? Are there any
limitations on this sort of thing? I've heard rumors of a campus
firewall effort that's been going on. Does anyone know anything about
this?
Thanks for the help in advance.
Sincerely,
Jennifer
-- Jennifer Gwirtz Department of Philosophy http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following was automatically added to this message by the list server:
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