WINS Monthly Meeting

www2.widener.edu/wins

http://events.internet2.edu/index.cfm

04/04/2008

Agenda• Introductions

• Tripplite Presentation

• Fortinet Presentation

• WINS Support Phone Number

• Banner Security Warning

• ISP Update

• Question & Answers

Introductions• Name

• Title

• Location

TrippliteBrought to you by Tim Slattery (610) 656-2256 of CNI :

Barry Winters Eastern Region Accounts * Office – 740-587-0644 Cellular - 773-316-6635 email: barry_winters@tripplite.com www.tripplite.com

FortinetBrought to you by Tim Slattery (610) 656-2256 of CNI :

Jim Criscuolo Director of Sales, Northeast Region (860) 828-2130 (Office)(860) 280-4515 (Cell)(860) 828-2135 (Fax) Local Sales : Alan Currie (484) 883-6562

Local SE : Kai Yuan (646) 236-9462

---Fortinet: LEADER in Gartner's 2007 Enterprise Firewall Magic Quadrant---

WINS Support Phone Number• New Phone Number – (610) 990-8686

• To Reach :

• On-Call Option 1

• Perry Drayfahl Option 2

• Tom Erbe Option 3

• Mike Blanche Option 4

• Jay Buttacavoli Option 5

• ITS Help Desk Option 6

• Then Option 1 to leave message at desk or Option 2 to go to cell phone

Banner Security WarningWith everything becoming more and more interconnected via the Internet as an unsecuredcommunication medium, there raises several questions/issues regarding legalities. One ofthese issues is the issuance of the word “welcome” in the login banner and headings for anygiven system, server or network appliance. Many discussions have ensued (and still continuetoday, though not as intensely as several years ago) pertaining to the simple, but powerful,word “welcome”.

The prosecution of an individual in a criminal case must show that the individual’s actionswere intentional in nature. It would be extremely difficult for anyone to argue that anindividual’s intrusion attempts (or actions) were by accident or inadvertent insofar as to gopast such without encountering any type of warning or disclaimer on the target system orthroughout the network. It may still be possible (though highly unlikely) that an individualthat attempted an unauthorized and/or illegal intrusion attempt admit that their actions wereintentional. However, upon their sentence, they may argue that they were ignorant to anyspecified law or that they were unaware that their actions were unauthorized, therebyinducing the court to mitigate whatever penalty may be imposed.

ISP Update

• Most recent PLAN :

• Yipes - 150 to 200 Mb (mid Aug)

• SNIP - 40 to 100 Mb (July)

• I2 - 20 to 30 Mb (mid Aug)

Questions & Answers

Next Meeting May 2nd, 2008!

Server Virtualization Discussion?

Summer Projects?