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Posted by SA on March 4, 2008, 11:44 am
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Hello,
The IT department I work for has a no modems policy, including no all in one
network printer/fax machines. Is it possible to secure these all in one
machines so they are safe on the network? Or is it a better idea to not
allow them?
Thanks,
SA
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Posted by Ertugrul =?UTF-8?B?U8O2eWxlbWV on March 4, 2008, 11:56 am
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:44:43 -0500
> The IT department I work for has a no modems policy, including no all
> in one network printer/fax machines. Is it possible to secure these
> all in one machines so they are safe on the network? Or is it a
> better idea to not allow them?
Which part of your security policy could possibly disallow them? Or in
other words, how could such machines threaten your company's security?
Regards,
Ertugrul.
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http://ertes.de/
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Posted by Juergen Nieveler on March 4, 2008, 3:14 pm
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>> The IT department I work for has a no modems policy, including no all
>> in one network printer/fax machines. Is it possible to secure these
>> all in one machines so they are safe on the network? Or is it a
>> better idea to not allow them?
>
> Which part of your security policy could possibly disallow them?
The one that says "No networked devices should have modems"?
If the company doesn't trust the devices, then it doesn't want them -
period.
> Or in other words, how could such machines threaten your company's
> security?
Are you absolutely and 100% sure that the fax device doesn't have a bug
that allows data to leak into the LAN? Would you bet all your money on
it?
Juergen Nieveler
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Don't run, you'll only die tired. - Army Snipers
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Posted by Ertugrul =?UTF-8?B?U8O2eWxlbWV on March 5, 2008, 7:16 am
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> > Which part of your security policy could possibly disallow them?
>
> The one that says "No networked devices should have modems"?
>
> If the company doesn't trust the devices, then it doesn't want them -
> period.
>
> > Or in other words, how could such machines threaten your company's
> > security?
>
> Are you absolutely and 100% sure that the fax device doesn't have a
> bug that allows data to leak into the LAN? Would you bet all your
> money on it?
Did I ask you for security guidelines, or did I ask 'SA' for his/her
security policy? Please read my post again more carefully. People like
to artifically misunderstand questions to be able to offend.
Regards,
Ertugrul.
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http://ertes.de/
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Posted by bz on March 4, 2008, 4:51 pm
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> Hello,
> The IT department I work for has a no modems policy, including no all in
> one network printer/fax machines. Is it possible to secure these all in
> one machines so they are safe on the network? Or is it a better idea to
> not allow them?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SA
It seems like filling either the Ethernet jack and US
or the telephone jacks with epoxy would secure the device.
You want to prevent a computer from using the phone line via the all in
one, fill the phone jacks with epoxy.
You want to use the all in one as a fax machine, scanner and printer, fill
the USB and Ethernet jacks with epoxy.
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bz
please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.
bz+acs@ch100-5.chem.lsu.edu remove ch100-5 to avoid spam trap
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