66 | WEAR YOUR OWN | EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
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"WIRED IS NO LONGER GOOD ENOUGH AND NOT THE TYPICAL USER EXPERIENCE"
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1: Student wearable glasses 2: Student wearable iwatch 3: Student smartphone and laptop
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very September a new student intake arrives at universities from all over the world equipped with a wide variety of IT devices. As consumers, they
expect seamless and secure wireless availability for bring your own device (BYOD), and now wear your own device (WYOD). There is a belief by some that security measures are urgently needed by universities in order to avoid data breaches from WYOD, but others insist this is simply media hype. BYOD reached critical mass in 2010 with the rapid
sales of tablets, and with most students owning at least two devices requiring wireless connection this presents universities with network challenges rarely experienced outside campus environments. Traditionally universities were able to offer personal
communications a long way in advance of anything available domestically, but with the introduction of household wireless, this changed. As consumers, students now expect to have connections that are as good as those at home, coffee shops, fast food outlets, on trains and a myriad of other public places.
Wanting wireless “We’d traditionally viewed wired as good enough for everybody,” said Brunel University Network and Data
Centre Manager, Simon Furber, adding: “What became very clear was that wired wasn’t good enough. Wired was not their typical user experience.” In 2012 Brunel’s student union insisted on wireless
access before starting negotiations on 2013 rents. It was then recognised that a BYOD network was needed. Brunel had worked with Cisco for many years, and
turned to it for an integrated service with security built in. A complete package was provided that automated policy enforcement, security and authentication, and network management. It is not sensitive to what device is used, or how users connect. An identity services engine (ISE) was applied, which
can detect blacklisted users, and allows managers to see in real time who is on the network, along with the numbers and types of device. ISE is matched against Brunel’s active directory, and conference visitors are managed by a delegate management system, plus day guests are granted access by staff members. Until now such systems have proved more than
adequate, but they may reach a new level of need when WYOD starts to become adopted in a wholesale fashion, as it inevitably will. The problem is that there is no universal agreement on whether WYOD will come with new security problems, and if so what they are specifically.
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