For those of you who were here last year or the year before, you remember the onslaught of viruses and worms that necessitated interruptions to network services. Starting in the fall of 2004, ITS and ResNet implemented a network authentication system from a company called Perfigo in order to reduce the effect of viruses and worms on our network. To protect student computers, and ultimately the network we all share, we are now using a feature of that system that we didn't take advantage of last year. Perfigo has since been acquired by Cisco and the name of the system is now called “Clean Access.”
The Clean Access product encompasses a registration server that is used in conjunction with a new software application at the desktop called the “Clean Access Agent,” which ensures that all those logging into the network have sufficient virus protection and system updates installed. Currently the agent is only available for Windows machines.
