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Originally Posted by stigweed Fresher's week in october will be a nightmare though. We have to check all their computers for virii and update windows and their AV before they can be connected. There's about 150 of them coming to our college. The guy last year said it took him all term to get sorted. |
There's some nice network switches that deal with this stuff really well. If an unknown device is connected to them, they shunt it across to a seperate VLAN, so it's not connected to the main network. That seperate VLAN can deploy AV and updates. Once that's all done, the server on the seperate network can tell the switch that the device is safe, and the switch will then swap it across to the main network.
Consultants are also a problem in the same way. A number of companies have ended up with virus infections through an external party connecting a laptop to their network.