wow

At 2:32 PM -0700 7/6/04, Sherry M. Rogers wrote:
>
>...Our long-term goal is to have a "network
>access control" system which will enable us to scan any host prior to
>letting it on the campus network. If the host does not meet those
>standards we can check for, it will be routed to a captive site where the
>necessary upgrades are available...

        Wow -- so at some point we'll have an environment in which
all devices (computers, pdas, printers/copiers, what have you) are
explicitly denied network access unless they respond in an approved
manner to a CNS security probe? Is that the idea?

        (Also, note that being "routed to a captive site" requires
the user to fire up a Web browser -- you can't route Eudora or
FileMaker or AIM to such a captive Web site, eh?)

-Greg

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Received on Tue Jul 6 15:06:30 2004