[unisog] Content Monitoring and/or Filtering

[Reg Quinton]

Lazerwitz wrote:
> > Just curious if anyone out there is doing any form of web content
> > monitoring or filtering at their universities.
> 
> I can think of no faster way to bring the mobs with torches and
> pitchforks. We have no plans to monitor/filter content.

Snort has all sorts of rules to alarm on web content. Many are using it to
detect attacks, compromises, malicious downloads, etc. I will continue doing
that and have not seen any angry mobs. To the contrary, it is seen as a
valuable service.

Ps. I have no plans to use snort to monitor for the kind of content that
*might* bring out the mobs.

I am, Reg Quinton <reggers at ist.uwaterloo.ca>
      Senior Technologist, Security
      Information Systems and Technology
      University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W
      Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada
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