24. Juli 2015 — I am Dan Uetrecht, Interim Chief Information Office and Director of Networks & Computing at Missouri S&T. Peggy forwarded me this petition as she is on vacation today. As a recent victim of identity theft I appreciate your passion and your concern for safeguarding your privacy. IT is using this tool to make registration easier and automated, to warn students of security issues on their machines that need addressed and to protect other students from infected machines. As IT discussed last semester at both Res Life and Student Council meetings, the plan was to enable the Network Access Control (NAC) system on the wired network over the summer to work through any issues prior to the start of the fall semester. The NAC system was already in use on the wireless network last semester. The NAC system replaces the existing manual network registration system with an automated tool to make getting on the network easier for new students. At the same time the NAC also enforces network access policies on Windows and Mac machines to ensure that machines that are new to the network are running AV antivirus scanning software and have current security patches installed. This is accomplished via a policy key installed on the machine. The key does not capture any information on keystrokes, browsing history, etc. It will only look for what is configured in a specific Policy Group, such as an AV process running, or the registry value for Windows Update. It can only answer a yes or no question about each specific condition in a policy (is this process running? Does this registry value exist?). The NAC privacy policy can be found at: http://www.impulse.com/safeconnect/privacy-policy/. I am happy to discuss this issue individually and as a group. We will look for a forum to do so soon and I will gladly take suggestions on the best way to reach concerned students. Have a great weekend!



Dan Uetrecht uetrecht@mst.edu