Private WiFi Router @ Work

[My_King]

End users. But they're always right inn'it?

I`m still stuck with was OP leeching off company network or his own internet connection.

Please dont say his own wifi as I might lose the conversation again.

 

[Neuk_]

OK, so likely the majority of the sensitive stuff is on the other end of the Citrix desktops

Yes, the overwhelming majority of users, Citrix is their access portal to everything.

Does your day to day login have elevated privileges locally? Maybe that's the question I should ask. I'd be surprised if it does given their attention to detail in other areas.

What do you mean by elevated privileges? And what would these elevated privileges allow me to do?

 

[My_King]

He never clarified that. He had an LTE + WiFi router + switch but whether he was accessing his own LTE or using it to access the company inet was unclear. Regardless it makes sense for the company to ask him to leave it at home.

Cause at this point with my confusion, I feel like banning as well.

People can cause heavy **** like a rogue DHCP or leech of of our network.

 

[Thor]

Not sure if this has been said, but what I think is about is employees being distracted by forums and facebook hence the wifi at the workplace is probably limited. It is official work hours after all.

 

[irBosOtter]

No they don't but that's not the point. I'm not connecting any company infrastructure to my personal WiFi. I use my personal WiFi on my private cell-phone. If that is the case they should then block me from bringing my cell-phone to work because I can use still use it as a hot-spot if the risk is that I will connect to my laptop.

I know of a few companies here in Cape Town that you need to hand in your cellphone when you walk in and you get it back when you leave the afternoon....

We also do not allow mifi routers in our offices (yet mine is on my desk lolol)

1. Possibility of Interference with in house wifi channels, especially if wifi is business critical, as our are.
2. We offer a secure wifi network for BYOD devices, use it or loose your private equipment. (We only block torrents and porn, but everything is logged and we do monitor useage, some people sit on their phones the whole day on FB or youtube, wasting company time)
3. Security risk

 

[backstreetboy]

No they don't but that's not the point. I'm not connecting any company infrastructure to my personal WiFi. I use my personal WiFi on my private cell-phone. If that is the case they should then block me from bringing my cell-phone to work because I can use still use it as a hot-spot if the risk is that I will connect to my laptop.

He never clarified that. He had an LTE + WiFi router + switch but whether he was accessing his own LTE or using it to access the company inet was unclear. Regardless it makes sense for the company to ask him to leave it at home.

He did... Whether you read it however...

 

[NeonNinja]

Not in the IT scene now. MAC filtering isn't a thing these days or it's easy to bypass?

 

[NeonNinja]

I know of a few companies here in Cape Town that you need to hand in your cellphone when you walk in and you get it back when you leave the afternoon....

That's just cray.

2. We offer a secure wifi network for BYOD devices, use it or loose your private equipment.

 

[YungKwality]

Quick q - do you have admin access to your work laptop or do you need the IT guy to install stuff for you?

No admin access. The IT handles that stuff

 

[backstreetboy]

He also said he's note technically inclined and:
I have learned not to make assumptions.

Yeah more excuses.

 

[Neuk_]

Basically can you install software or run software that requires admin on your machine without logging out then logging in as an administrator?
The trouble with that is that some of the more attackers these days exist on the inside, not the outside. Whether your documents and emails are worth gleaning, I don't know.

I haven't loaded software in a while but don't recall having to log out and then log back in as an administrator. I think I understand the risk though, since my local user has admin rights it opens up my work laptop to being vulnerable to virus' or trojan's or ransom ware. I have had to do some cleaning up after a ransom ware attack on one of our servers a few years back so know all too well that attackers can get in somewhat easily.

 

[backstreetboy]

I have learned not to make assumptions.

Did you learn that before or after the second post you made where you misread the OP? Lol

 

[ekske1]

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"How appropriate, you fight like a cow"

 

[irBosOtter]

That's just cray.

Haha ja you can get it back if you ask nicely, sometimes people don't even notice when things go missing from their desks, we just hide it till they start asking

And at our warehouse you are not allowed to use the microwave oven after 9am, interference from microwaves are crazy on a 2.4Ghz network

Also no cellphones on our warehouse floor, bluetooth also interferes with the Wifi