Two new networks are available for wireless users on the Gables campus. Take a moment of your valuable time to read and think about what these excellent services can offer to you.
SECURECANES
SecureCanes allows you to encrypt everything you are doing on the Internet as it flies between your computer and the UM network. Normal communication with web pages, with http for example, is sent in the clear. People could (easily) monitor your wireless traffic and see what you are doing. Secured communication, with https for example, is encrypted all the way from your computer to the destination. If you use SecureCanes EVERYTHING will be encrypted during its flight through the air. It is your decision whether to use it or not. If you choose to use it for a session you will have to authenticate with your CaneID credentials. So you trade off the convenience of just going online directly with the benefit of increased security. The decision is yours, as it should be. Nice!
EDUROAM
UM provides the EduRoam network as a service to our guests from other EduRoam institutions. Using the EduRoam network at UM, users from other schools can authenticate onto our network using their home institution's credentials. As you hosts colleagues or guests, please let them know that this service is there for them. If there institution is a member of EduRoam, they can use the service here at UM.
This means that YOU can authenticate onto EduRoam networks at other EduRoam schools using your CaneID credentials. To see what schools are part of the EduRoam service, go to http://eduroam.org. This network is expanding rapidly, so the data on the web site may take a while to catch up to reality, and the number of institutions participating is likely to increase dramatically as awareness of its benefits increases.
NOTE: WirelessCanes and SecureCanes networks at UM are for people with CaneID credentials. EduRoam is for people from other EduRoam institutions who do not have CaneID credentials. YOU don't need to, and you cannot, use EduRoam AT UM using your CaneID. Guests use it here; you use it when you are a guest elsewhere.
When combined with the recent change in WirelessCanes so that CaneID authentication is no longer required, these new services give us an incredibly powerful and useful wireless network, in my opinion. I have nothing to do with the wireless network, but I am happy to now be part of the IT department that provides this level of service. I was told that the information about and request for this service came from a faculty member who had visited an EduRoam institution. The service was quickly provisioned at UM so that faculty and students can use it elsewhere and guests can use it here. Wonderful!
Bill Vilberg - bill.vilberg@miami.edu, 786-250-2255
http://vilberg.com - Spreading seeds of education, technology, and more
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From: "Cortes, Diana" <dcortes@MIAMI.EDU>
Date: April 19, 2012 5:11:26 PM EDT
To: <SYSTEM-ADMINS@LISTSERV.MIAMI.EDU>
Subject: Change Control Notification: SecureCanes and eduroam
Reply-To: "Cortes, Diana" <dcortes@MIAMI.EDU>
2 New Wireless Services to be available:
SecureCanes is a wireless network that allows for secure user authentication and wireless communication encryption. Users must use their CaneID and password to authenticate to this network. For more information, please visit: www.miami.edu/it/index.php/services/network_voiceeduroam (education roaming) is the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community. eduroam allows students, researchers and staff from participating institutions to obtain Internet connectivity when visiting other participating institutions by simply opening their laptop and connecting to the eduroam SSID. For more information please visit: www.eduroam.org
