| >>> I have a bunch of laptops that travel in areas where there are wi-fi | >>> networks. We also have wi-fi in the office. Is there any software | >>> that will allow our laptops to access our network but not any | >>> others? It needs to be fairly robust because we have some | >>> reasonable computer literate users. | >>>
| >>> Thanks, | >>> Dave | >>>
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| > The truth is that the computers belong to city employees who rarely if | > ever travel out of the city. However, there are a number of unsecured | > "hotspots" in the city and we would prefer that our employees not | > access them. All city access to the internet needs to be through our | > network, not someone else's. Why? Well, we had an officer sitting in | > his car downtown log onto an unfiltered network a few years ago and go | > to p*rn sites. A resident recorded it through the car window. There | > is a plan for a commercial mesh network to be installed and we want to | > keep our people off of it in most cases. | >
| > Now, can anyone else help? | | Consider using VPN servers and client software combos. You can set up the | laptops that can use any hotspot it sees/but ONLY connect to your company | network via VPN tunnels. | | Won't stop anyone from using additional software on say a floppy or CD to | still access the ummm "dirty" stuff, but should mitigate your legal | liability since someone has to intentionally avoid using the software you | provide.
Sounds like a solution we can implement. I'll sure be glad when they make more "appliances" w/o CD and floppy and other remote memory access - we can lock the box up and only let the users go where they should.
Dave