ohio_grad_06
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So the title pretty much says it. I work for a Church organization in the USA and we support a Bible college as well. The college is asking for assistance with blocking websites so just trying to figure out the best option. Currently they use Ubiquiti. Which is to say we've got a Ubiquiti cloud key there that at the moment is handling DHCP iirc. I'm not the primary person there, usually once a week.
Anyway
1. Ubiquiti network with cloud key managing
2. Unifi Security Gateway behind the cloud key
3. Windows Domain server manages DNS.
So currently, staff systems get joined to the staff/internal Wifi.
There is student wifi, which is essentially a guest wifi network. There's not a portal per se, but they don't have internal access to the main network as they are segmented via a VLAN.
As far as antivirus, we are deploying Checkpoint antivirus that we purchased through a local vendor in our area to staff and public use systems that need to print etc.
However, the big concern is actually people for example who join the student wifi network primarily and may attempt access any plagarism websites. We realize that we won't be able to stop everyone as some enterprising kids will realize they can simply disconnect from wifi or change the dns on their local devices, but hoping to at least slow people down.
We are trying to look at services such as untangle or this other one, but I don't have as much experience on this personally.
www.trustradius.com
One thing that did come to mind was that since we do have our domain controllers set a dns server, to use that to block some of the sites if possible. We found a guide here that describes this.
Just trying to think of something that is relatively easy to deply and at least will annoy people who want to plagarize. My understanding is the staff uses already a service that helps to check papers for plagarism but it seems there are many sites to try to block, so simply trying to figure out the best solution.
Anyway
1. Ubiquiti network with cloud key managing
2. Unifi Security Gateway behind the cloud key
3. Windows Domain server manages DNS.
So currently, staff systems get joined to the staff/internal Wifi.
There is student wifi, which is essentially a guest wifi network. There's not a portal per se, but they don't have internal access to the main network as they are segmented via a VLAN.
As far as antivirus, we are deploying Checkpoint antivirus that we purchased through a local vendor in our area to staff and public use systems that need to print etc.
However, the big concern is actually people for example who join the student wifi network primarily and may attempt access any plagarism websites. We realize that we won't be able to stop everyone as some enterprising kids will realize they can simply disconnect from wifi or change the dns on their local devices, but hoping to at least slow people down.
We are trying to look at services such as untangle or this other one, but I don't have as much experience on this personally.
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www.trustradius.com
One thing that did come to mind was that since we do have our domain controllers set a dns server, to use that to block some of the sites if possible. We found a guide here that describes this.
Just trying to think of something that is relatively easy to deply and at least will annoy people who want to plagarize. My understanding is the staff uses already a service that helps to check papers for plagarism but it seems there are many sites to try to block, so simply trying to figure out the best solution.
