Then what is the point of having NAC in the first place? We limit their access based on antivirus and update status... why not just let anyone on the network in any configuration?
Michael Stanclift Network Analyst Rockhurst University http://help.rockhurst.edu (816) 501-4231 ________________________________________ From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Feise [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Freedom and the community. On Tue, May 12, 2009 14:30, Steven Fischer wrote: > > By enacting this policy, the school is limiting: > > 1. Their legal exposure and liability. Actually, on the contrary. By searching non-owned computers for software, it could be argued that the school then has lost common carrier status and has become liable for all illegal content on such computers. That could also mean unlicensed software. Do you know if that copy of MS Office on the student's computer is licensed??? In other words, you'd open a whole new can of worms, which you could only prevent by not allowing any non-organization-owned computers on the network. If that's your policy, fine. Quite a number of companies indeed do that (although they may make exceptions for the CEO's personal laptop...) -Joe
