Chuck,

The key that you touch on is that this has to do with the organization's 
appetite for risk, and what legal says is defensible. Tell me the rules as you 
see them and I'll make adjustments accordingly to my Joo Janta 200 
Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.

Jeff

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<WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU> On Behalf Of Enfield, Chuck
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To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WPA3/OWE as campus solution?

We discussed all those issues, and no doubt it opens a smelly can of worms.  
Most of these issues come into play simply by allowing employees to use 
personal devices.  If you allow for personal device use, requiring their use 
didn't create many additional legal issues.

I feel like I need to make a disclaimer here.  I'm not a lawyer, you may recall 
me getting things very wrong regarding CALEA a couple years back.  I researched 
your comments and concluded you were right and the university attorney that 
gave me contradictory information was incorrect.  It took me long enough to be 
sure of that that I never replied to the thread to say so.  I could be wrong 
about this as well, but unlike our guest network access, which was evaluated by 
one attorney and probably didn't get very much attention from her, this issue 
was taken very seriously by the controller, HR, Risk, and General Counsel.  
Outside counsel with expertise in this area was also consulted.  I'm confident 
that whatever our legal team concluded on this issue was defensible.

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For sure, my lens is based on California law, however, the federal Fair Labor 
Standards Act and state overtime and wage payment laws also come into play 
here.  Since nonexempt (hourly) workers have ready access to the technology, 
they will be in a position to respond to e-mails and text messages or to 
otherwise engage in work activities outside their scheduled work hours. Even if 
you don't reimburse for the use of the personal device, there is the wage 
exposure of having to compensate those nonexempt employees because checking 
their work email is - well - working.   When we rolled out DUO, we had to offer 
all employees a token, and they signed a waiver if they wanted to use the DUO 
app on their personal phone for their convenience.

On the eDiscovery/litigation front, it can be difficult/impossible to ensure 
that business records stored on an employee's personal device are retained long 
enough to satisfy discovery requests.  There are also risks should that data 
not be available, and presents a whole other quagmire in the BYOD movement that 
is beyond this conversation.

Jeff


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Jeff,

It makes sense that you think this is settled law, because in California it is 
settled law.  I don't recall all the details, but I was on a team involved with 
considering mobile device policies for Penn State, and we discussed a case in 
California around 2014/2015 that clarified California labor law.  The law 
required that employers reimburse employees for expenses, but said nothing 
about how those expenses should be calculated.  Some employers decided they 
only needed to reimburse marginal expenses, but the court decision said that's 
not the case.  So if you're required to use your device for work in California 
you're entitled to reimbursement of some kind.  As I recall, no specific 
reimbursement formula was recommended by the court in that case.  I assume 
there's been some standardization since, even if only de facto.

That, however, was a California court interpreting California law.  Our 
institution considered that ruling and concluded that Pennsylvania law was 
different and that we could discontinue our stipend and require certain 
employees to provide and use their own phones for work communications.  In the 
end, we stopped the stipend, but never implemented the mandate.  I was never 
informed precisely why we stopped short of the mandate.  That decision was made 
out of committee.

I'm confident there was no clear Federal requirement when we were discussing 
this in 2016, but if there's been case law or US Department of Labor guidance 
since then I wouldn't necessarily expect to know about it.  I'm am curious if 
anybody knows more about it.

Chuck

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Tim,

I would take a look at case law, where it was determined that an employer can 
not expect an employee to use their own device without compensation.  This has 
resulted in two scenarios now.  The first being that the employer provides the 
employee with a stipend to compensate them for use of their personal device.  
The second being that employers now provide the necessary devices (tools) to 
the employee in order to carry out their duties.

For example, with COVID, many employers are providing temporary stipends to 
employees to cover Internet consumption and personal cell use.

In no way shape or fashion can an employer compel the user to install or enroll 
their personal device into their employer's end-point management.  The employer 
could say it's an optional condition of the employee's desire, in a voluntary 
decision, to use that device for company business. Can't be forced.

Jeff

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Well, I can tell you that is just not the reality. Sorry!

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On 2021-04-21 21:30:53+0000, Tim Cappalli wrote:
>  I'd also like to address the comment about post-college experience.
>
>  Most organizations these students are going to work at are going to
> require MDM or MAM on their personal devices. So I fundamentally
> disagree with the comment that they won't deal with "enrollment" post
> campus life.

On the above specifically.  In every business scenario I've encountered, and 
it's at EDU level now too, unless you are going to compensate the user for 
access/control of their device, the business has no right to require MDM.  This 
is in the same territory as requiring an employee to check business email from 
a personal device - it must be only as an employee opt-in convenience, and not 
a substitute for the business providing that person the tools they need to do 
their job.

That's a long trip version of saying that a business is going to hand their 
employee a pre-enrolled/managed company-owned device(s) where it is the 
business' responsibility to handle whatever onboarding they've established for 
their company assets.  The individual will never encounter this activity (nor 
should they) with a personal device they own.

Jeff

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Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 7:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] WPA3/OWE as campus solution?

On 2021-04-21 21:24:25+0000, Tim Cappalli wrote:
>  Why not take baby steps? One example: So many organizations talk
> about user experience challenges of onboarding (and trust me, I hear
> you) but then issue 1 year certs and force the user through it every
> year.
>
>  Switch to a 5 year cert (or device specific cred) and use
> authorization rules to temporarily (or permanently) revoke access.
 100%. Preach. We are kicking off a project to move from PEAP/MSCHAPv2 to 
EAP-TLS, primarily for usability reasons. There are plenty of other reasons why 
it is a good change (that I as an admin am personally excited about), but they 
are not what is pushing things forward that hardest. Right now, because 
MSCHAPv2 is hot garbage, users have a password used only for network access. We 
want to get rid of that.
Partly because _passwords_ are hot garbage.

 The intent is to move to per-device certs that will expire after the device is 
dead from oxidation. The cert/key establishes _authentication_ (who is this?). 
This is only breaks if the key is compromised or the device changes hands. 
Everything else is an issue of _authorization_ (is this allowed?). We're 
considering blurring that line a bit and pretending it is all authorization, 
but now I'm just rambling.

 I don't think I've said anything until this point that Tim would disagree 
with. It's here mostly for the broader discussion of the thread.

> You don't have to burn the whole forest down.
 I'm not planning on it. We'll still have a .1X network (eduroam). I just won't 
care if someone decides to not use it.

 What I do want to burn down are the dead trees - the captive portal and 
_mandated_ authentication. And that's not going to happen for a while.
EAP-TLS isn't a strict prereq, but it is more urgent, and we don't have the 
manpower to do both at the same time.

>  I'm sure your security folks would rather have a guaranteed encrypted
> network with user identity, a 5 year cert and full control, than an
> open network with no reliable user identity or enforcement mechanism.
 I've talked to them. They don't care. That's the simplicity zero-trust brings 
to the table. The _legal_ team on the other hand... that's a conversation that 
still needs to happen.

 I've used the term "zero-trust" some already, and I'm about to a lot more, so 
let's get past the buzz-word and define it. By "zero-trust", I am making the 
explicit choice to _NOT_:
  - care who you are
  - make any assumption about the security posture of the device
  - make any assumption about the network between us (encrypted, MitM,
    etc)
 I _might_ care if your identity is knowable. Subtle but important distinction 
here: I _might_ care if the question, "Who are you?" has a meaningful answer, 
for the sake of accountability. I do _not_ care what that answer is.
 Also, some of these questions obviously need answering somewhere around layer 
7. But, layers 1-3 are not designed to answer those questions and are really 
bad at trying. Zero-trust is specifically layers 1-3.

 On enforcement, lets take a trip into the nuances of our implementation of 
zero-trust (told you I was going to use it more).
 Right now, if you connect on eduroam (VT affiliate or a roaming user), as a 
sponsored guest, or with a (MAC) registered device, you end up in the same 
network. Lets call it the accountable network.
 If you connect as a self-sponsored guest, you end up in a different network. 
Let's call it the unaccountable network.
 The unaccountable network is a different routing instance, with clearly 
segmented IP space, where the traffic is basically hairpinned at the border.
 _Both_ networks are zero-trust. With the accountable network, we are telling 
sysadmins that we can additionally answer the question, "who is this?" given an 
IP/timestamp. Those in the unaccountable network should be treated as coming 
from the villainous wilderness that is the Internet. Among other things, this 
allows for writing some really coarse ACLs that mostly filter out noise.

 Let's take another detour on some core considerations for our guest network. 
We've decided that someone should be able to walk on campus and be able to use 
the wireless network. Maybe that takes some self-sponsoring, maybe not, but 
they can get on the network without us providing credentials for them. This 
means there is an open(ish) network with unreliable or no identity sitting 
right next to our .1X network.

 So what does that mean for enforcement? Effectively, reliable authentication 
is already optional. Adding a captive portal to the open network doesn't change 
that. Zero-trust and the accountable vs unaccountable network split helps quite 
a bit here, and I think it's pretty obvious why.

On 2021-04-21 21:30:53+0000, Tim Cappalli wrote:
>  I'd also like to address the comment about post-college experience.
>
>  Most organizations these students are going to work at are going to
> require MDM or MAM on their personal devices. So I fundamentally
> disagree with the comment that they won't deal with "enrollment" post
> campus life.

 I don't think I've made that specific claim, but I have made a similar one 
(though not in this thread, I think), that users don't deal with "enrollment" 
outside of campus (pre-graduation), referring to restaurants, public venues, 
hotels, etc.

 Either way, I see where you are coming from. It is not something I had 
considered before. I do not find it compelling. I'm not going to make my users 
miserable because someone else's network experience is painful.


 As a final thought, it is my estimation that captive portals and mac auth are 
on their way out industry wide. (Why is a rambling for another
time.) I'd rather be on the front edge of that wave than get caught by 
surprise, and I suspect the users would agree.


 Well, I rambled _a lot_ in this email. Congrats if you made it to the end, I 
guess. If I had more time, it would have been shorter.

--
Jonathan Waldrep
Network Engineer
Network Infrastructure and Services
Virginia Tech

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