On 11/02/2011 08:54 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On Nov 2, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote: >> "Rogue Vending machine" strikes me as a movie theater threat. Rogue >> devices can be a very real problem, but you're much more likely to be >> hit by a users virus infected home laptop or potentially a malicious >> device other than a vending machine. > Case in point: a few gigs back we got hit by Slammer on the inside of our > firewalled network. It wasn't ourselves. It was a visiting vendor or some > such who brought it in on his own laptop and it spread when he plugged it > into our network. > > Another case in point: > http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N30/swartz.html > > When we set up our internal conference room, I set up 1 ethernet port to connect to the Regus Office network. I did this because we use the room for training. In addition, our 2 wireless routers are set to WPA + MAC address authentication. Regus also has WiFI and I give vendors and clients the password for Regus. Of course that does not solve the problem when you have a visiting employee from a Rogue nation like Canada :-).
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