PC Security Standards

Note: These do not apply to:

• Faculty/staff owned computers
• Cell phones, PDAs or other mobile or special purpose devices

EKU reserves the right to quarantine or block compromised or vulnerable computers from our network.

1. Install the version of Symantec that EKU supplies to all EKU owned/leased computers and student owned/leased computers.  For students this is required to connect to Cisco Clean Access to connect to the wired network in your residence hall.
2. Make sure your operating system is patched and that autoupdate is turned on. 
3. If you are a student trying to connect to the wired network in your residence hall you will also have to use Cisco Clean Access.    This is a network solution that performs validation on computers trying to connect to the network to ensure that those computers meet the minimum security standards.
4. Use a personal firewall.

• Windows has a built-in firewall.  You can also use another product such as Zone Alarm.
• Macintosh OSX users can use the built-in firewall (ipfw).
• Linux users should choose a firewall.
• A hardware firewall can also be used to protect your computer.

   5.   Use an anti-spyware program for protection and removal.

Why Should I Care?

1. If you want to connect to the campus network.
2. The number of security threats rapidly increases each day and you can't have too much protection against it all if you're going to use a network (Ethernet, DSL, cable) or the Internet.
3. An unpatched, open computer with no protection/removal programs is a sitting duck that can wreak havoc on everyone else that shares the network/Internet with them.  It only takes seconds to become infected and can take days to get cleaned.