undergraduate bulletin - LaGrange College

Students are responsible for all Network traffic originating from their Network access. Students
should employ appropriate and up-to-date antivirus software.
CAMPUS NETWORK
The College provides Network access in classrooms, laboratories, the library, offices, public
access locations, and student dormitory rooms. While the College is committed to free speech
and open access to information and communication, these must be tempered by the need to
respect others‘ rights to speech, access, and communication. Each user is expected to balance
their needs with the needs and expectations of the College community as a whole. The College
reserves the rights to limit bandwidth to users and access to non-academic, resource-intensive
applications if they threaten to interfere with academic uses of the Campus Network.
Users on the Network must not attempt to conceal, mask, or misrepresent their identity or the
identity of computers when using the Network. Users shall not employ software or hardware
that interferes with the operation or security of the Network. Users shall not interfere with the
administration of the Campus Network, nor shall they attempt to breach any Network or resource
security system. In administering the Network, Network activities of users may be monitored as
to type and quantity.
Users are responsible for all Network activities originating from resources provided to them by
the College.
WIRELESS NETWORK
Wireless networking provides many benefits to the College, but with these benefits come unique
security threats. In order to make a reasonable effort to prevent access to Network resources from
unauthorized users via the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), the following policy and
associated best practices exist.
An unsecured Wireless Access Point (WAP) has the potential to open a backdoor into an
otherwise secure network. All WAPs located in academic and administrative buildings must be
managed by IT. Faculty and staff are prohibited from installing a WAP without explicit
permission from the Director of Information Technology. Requests for expansion of the wireless
Network should be made to the Network Manager via the IT Helpdesk. In order to allow
flexibility for students to utilize wireless networking in the residence halls, secured personal
WAPs are allowed. IT must be notified of intent to install a WAP via the IT Helpdesk. WAPs
must be physically located in the vicinity of the owner‘s conventional wired jack, and they must
be secured in at least one (1) of two (2) ways: At least 40-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
must be enabled on the WAP and client, and ideally the WAP‘s internal MAC address table
should be set to allow access only from authorized clients. IT reserves the right to scan for and
disable any unauthorized or unsecured WAPs.
WAP Best Practices:
Activate WEP on the WAP and client.
Change the default administrator password to a more secure password.
Don‘t use the default Service Set Identifier (SSID).
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