New customer - greenfield setup
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@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
Well you CAN'T do it without seriously breaking the law (and pulling some magic super computing stuff.) It's federally criminal to attempt without the customer voluntarily handing over their computer to you which absolutely no one will do. And it's a lot of work for someone just sitting in an office trying to watch porn.
Most common people will simply get the portal, tap anything it says and thus agree to it all. So yeah, you are wrong that no one does it.
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@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
These days, people will just use their cellular service anyway while in your office.
From the random stuff I see, I would say that is a 50/50 shot.
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@jaredbusch said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
These days, people will just use their cellular service anyway while in your office.
From the random stuff I see, I would say that is a 50/50 shot.
If blocked, i mean
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@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@jaredbusch said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
These days, people will just use their cellular service anyway while in your office.
From the random stuff I see, I would say that is a 50/50 shot.
If blocked, i mean
Absolutely, yes.
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@jaredbusch said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
Well you CAN'T do it without seriously breaking the law (and pulling some magic super computing stuff.) It's federally criminal to attempt without the customer voluntarily handing over their computer to you which absolutely no one will do. And it's a lot of work for someone just sitting in an office trying to watch porn.
Most common people will simply get the portal, tap anything it says and thus agree to it all. So yeah, you are wrong that no one does it.
Is that all that it takes to get the phone or computer to install the certs and hand over man in the middle access? I've not done it, because... only a crazy person would.... but I thought it took several steps and a lot of warnings from most mobile devices.
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@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:
They want web filtering to keep porn/guns/violence, etc at bay.
I'd start by moving this from a hobby/emotional discussion to a business one. What "business value" are they looking for. The point here isn't to make them act like a business if they aren't one, but to use this process to define their real goal because the answer to your question is determined by that.
Right now, maybe they did a bunch of research and business thoughts and know that they need some filtering. unlikely, but plausible. But they aren't relaying enough of that information to you (suggesting that there is none) so you don't know how to solve the problem because you are lacking the information necessary to do so that had to be used to make a business decision to do so in the first place.
Also, if this WAS a business decision, how did they reach it without talking to their IT and getting the IT costs and options as part of the process? They can't, ergo we know it's an emotional response. But that's separate.
I asked them - I know you and JB are likely glaring at me for that one - but that's where it started.
I am their IT - they are asking me what they should buy.
a few years ago it would have simply been - an EdgeRouter - some Unifi APs and call it good.
But really - I mainly started this thread to see if UTM appliances are really a better solution for most businesses today because of the threat landscape. (and maybe not UTM specifically - perhaps separate appliances when/where needed).
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web filtering to prevent access from known bad websites/IPs
SSL interception/AV scanning at the edge (in addition to the endpoint).So I guess - there hasn't been to much emotion yet - just questions.
Why do they want to filter especially on the guest network - seems kinds obvious, they don't want to support people looking at things they don't support - like porn, violence, etc.
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@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@jaredbusch said in New customer - greenfield setup:
Can they not just discipline employees? Because this is jsut stupid talking.
No way around this. They see themselves as having a management problem and they are trying to find a scapegoat in IT.
This was never about the employees - it's really more about limiting the guests and what they can access.
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@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@jaredbusch said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:
Should they go DNS filtering or NGFW with filtering subscription?
2 years ago, I would have said DNS filtering. But now browsers are starting to go around DNS with built in DNS over TLS and such.
I know several DNS providers were starting to provide DNS over TLS, and that several of the browser vendors were saying - as long as the provided DNS provider used DNS over TLS or HTTPS then the browser would respect the system's IP settings.
Have you found that to be not true? - then again, how would you know other than the traffic going to known browser based DNS over TLS IPs.
No matter what, someone that wants to work around this will. My phone, for example, would never even know that you blocked me because it always establishes a VPN first. So you'd know that I had a VPN, but that would be the end of it. All that SOPHOS magic, those certs, those IP blocks... none of it would ever show up. All that cost and me, not even trying to work around anything, would totally not be affected.
Good point.
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@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@dave247 said in New customer - greenfield setup:
For basic site filter, would you consider OpenDNS? Then, like Jared said, discipline the employees.
Not employees. So you can't use DNS filtering nor can you discipline. It's about controlling customers. So.... nothing will work.
While primarily for customers - the employees would also be limited...
But yeah - I see the rabbit whole that's being generated here now.
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@jaredbusch said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:
These are my thoughts as well, it's one of the draw backs to Ubiquiti gear - limited to 4 VLANs on WiFi (at least used to be).
The limit is 4 SSID. Of course that also means 4 VLAN max, since the VLAN is tied to the SSID. But the limit is not VLAN.
aww - yes, you're starting it right... but clearly you understood my end point.
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@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:
but SSL inspection on guest - nope, not interested... Hell I'd be more worried about being sue for breach of privacy.
Well you CAN'T do it without seriously breaking the law (and pulling some magic super computing stuff.) It's federally criminal to attempt without the customer voluntarily handing over their computer to you which absolutely no one will do. And it's a lot of work for someone just sitting in an office trying to watch porn.
You missed the reality of what I was saying -
I've been on guest wifi networks that sent you to a captive portal and required you to install their SSL cert so you could surf, and they could intercept all your traffic.
I was saying I was unwilling to make that a requirement on this client's network (they haven't asked for it, and I as their current IT wouldn't recommend it if they did).
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@jaredbusch said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
Well you CAN'T do it without seriously breaking the law (and pulling some magic super computing stuff.) It's federally criminal to attempt without the customer voluntarily handing over their computer to you which absolutely no one will do. And it's a lot of work for someone just sitting in an office trying to watch porn.
Most common people will simply get the portal, tap anything it says and thus agree to it all. So yeah, you are wrong that no one does it.
Exactly - I have seen this - exactly once - and myself just walked away from that access point.
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@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@jaredbusch said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
Well you CAN'T do it without seriously breaking the law (and pulling some magic super computing stuff.) It's federally criminal to attempt without the customer voluntarily handing over their computer to you which absolutely no one will do. And it's a lot of work for someone just sitting in an office trying to watch porn.
Most common people will simply get the portal, tap anything it says and thus agree to it all. So yeah, you are wrong that no one does it.
Is that all that it takes to get the phone or computer to install the certs and hand over man in the middle access? I've not done it, because... only a crazy person would.... but I thought it took several steps and a lot of warnings from most mobile devices.
Yeah - there are a few warnings... but most people will simply accept it and start surfing - it's crazy... they have no clue what they are giving up. and even worse a surprising number wouldn't care even if you got them to actually understand it.
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@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:
but SSL inspection on guest - nope, not interested... Hell I'd be more worried about being sue for breach of privacy.
Well you CAN'T do it without seriously breaking the law (and pulling some magic super computing stuff.) It's federally criminal to attempt without the customer voluntarily handing over their computer to you which absolutely no one will do. And it's a lot of work for someone just sitting in an office trying to watch porn.
You missed the reality of what I was saying -
I've been on guest wifi networks that sent you to a captive portal and required you to install their SSL cert so you could surf, and they could intercept all your traffic.
I was saying I was unwilling to make that a requirement on this client's network (they haven't asked for it, and I as their current IT wouldn't recommend it if they did).
I thought that that WAS what they were asking for as it is the only means of doing the thing that they requested. Requesting web monitoring and filtering, and demanding the end users (guests) install a cert are one and the same in this case.
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@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@jaredbusch said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
Well you CAN'T do it without seriously breaking the law (and pulling some magic super computing stuff.) It's federally criminal to attempt without the customer voluntarily handing over their computer to you which absolutely no one will do. And it's a lot of work for someone just sitting in an office trying to watch porn.
Most common people will simply get the portal, tap anything it says and thus agree to it all. So yeah, you are wrong that no one does it.
Is that all that it takes to get the phone or computer to install the certs and hand over man in the middle access? I've not done it, because... only a crazy person would.... but I thought it took several steps and a lot of warnings from most mobile devices.
Yeah - there are a few warnings... but most people will simply accept it and start surfing - it's crazy... they have no clue what they are giving up. and even worse a surprising number wouldn't care even if you got them to actually understand it.
I think even if you carefully document it, you are at huge risk. Any banking breach, and you get blamed. Good luck proving you didn't use all the data you captured.
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@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:
but SSL inspection on guest - nope, not interested... Hell I'd be more worried about being sue for breach of privacy.
Well you CAN'T do it without seriously breaking the law (and pulling some magic super computing stuff.) It's federally criminal to attempt without the customer voluntarily handing over their computer to you which absolutely no one will do. And it's a lot of work for someone just sitting in an office trying to watch porn.
You missed the reality of what I was saying -
I've been on guest wifi networks that sent you to a captive portal and required you to install their SSL cert so you could surf, and they could intercept all your traffic.
I was saying I was unwilling to make that a requirement on this client's network (they haven't asked for it, and I as their current IT wouldn't recommend it if they did).
I thought that that WAS what they were asking for as it is the only means of doing the thing that they requested. Requesting web monitoring and filtering, and demanding the end users (guests) install a cert are one and the same in this case.
no - web filtering simply based on DNS query was MY thinking on the guests.
SSL interception would only be for employee devices.
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So the long and the short of it is - Scott is saying - no filtering is worth it, either on the employee side or the guest side.
i.e. the firewall is not a place to provide filtering (via either IP blocking or DNS website blocking) - there is not enough value if it has any cost.
Doing something simplish like Cloudflare's DNS filtering is worthwhile because there's no cost.
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@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:
So the long and the short of it is - Scott is saying - no filtering is worth it, either on the employee side or the guest side.
i.e. the firewall is not a place to provide filtering (via either IP blocking or DNS website blocking) - there is not enough value if it has any cost.
Doing something simplish like Cloudflare's DNS filtering is worthwhile because there's no cost.
Yeah, I think that something simple like CloudFlare or even PiHole (or combine the two) can have good value because the cost is low and the value is basic.
Firewalls are an inappropriate place for that kind of filtering and it makes me question the quality of a firewall that starts to act like a general purpose server platform. If they don't think that a security device should be single purpose, are they really prepared to be your security vendor?
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@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:
So the long and the short of it is - Scott is saying - no filtering is worth it, either on the employee side or the guest side.
i.e. the firewall is not a place to provide filtering (via either IP blocking or DNS website blocking) - there is not enough value if it has any cost.
Doing something simplish like Cloudflare's DNS filtering is worthwhile because there's no cost.
Yeah, I think that something simple like CloudFlare or even PiHole (or combine the two) can have good value because the cost is low and the value is basic.
You don't need any PiHole. You can set up DNS filtering policies on your free cloudflare account.
Just block every kind of external DNS queries in the firewall/router. Set the router to forward DNS to Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1. Cloudflare will detect your IP and filter your DNS results based on your policies.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/tutorials/secure-dns-network
I haven't played with it yet but there seems to be a lot of filtering options.
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@pete-s said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:
@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:
So the long and the short of it is - Scott is saying - no filtering is worth it, either on the employee side or the guest side.
i.e. the firewall is not a place to provide filtering (via either IP blocking or DNS website blocking) - there is not enough value if it has any cost.
Doing something simplish like Cloudflare's DNS filtering is worthwhile because there's no cost.
Yeah, I think that something simple like CloudFlare or even PiHole (or combine the two) can have good value because the cost is low and the value is basic.
You don't need any PiHole. You can set up DNS filtering policies on your free cloudflare account.
Just block every kind of external DNS queries in the firewall/router. Set the router to forward DNS to Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1. Cloudflare will detect your IP and filter your DNS results based on your policies.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/tutorials/secure-dns-network
I haven't played with it yet but there seems to be a lot of filtering options.
Custom filtering without cost? That's news to me. I've known about the 1.1.1.2/1.0.0.2 and 1.1.1.3/1.0.0.3 options of course.
