How to prevent a user from adding hardware to the networK?
August 4th, 2013
i need to know something for a project for school
the question is stated as follows :
“how do you prevent a user to add his own hardware to the wired network?”
i need to give some examples to do it and how to implement them…
(could be on windows, linux, mac, … anything really, i just need to think of EVERY possibility to add hardware and need to prevent it), thanks !
help is greatly appreciated as i am unable to find it on google
Thanks !
option 1
assign the mac addresses of each computer on the network to the dhcp server. This will only allow those machines access.
option 2
Cisco (and may be others) have authencation software that also can be used. This can be installed on any computer, but the it dept has to enter the computer/ the user name and password into the system for them to be allowed access to the network
The only problem with option 1 is a live cd can be booted on the computer and the mac address will be the same. They won’t be adding hardware but there os will be unrestricted and the files on the local machine will be available to them
The problem with option 2 is some software doesn’t play nice with all os’s (windows / mac/ linux / mobile)
thanks !
for windows check out “Group Policy Editor”
google “Group Policy Editor network hardware” for some info