Designing Access Controls

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finalize Security Policies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Access Policy

Inputs

 

 

 

 

Outputs—Access Profile

Group

 

 

 

 

 

 

Location

Time

System

WLAN

EI

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounting

acct. office

8am - 6pm

any

any

Pass

Accounting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Registrars

reg. office

8am - 6pm

any

any

Pass

Registrars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Staff

admin bldg

8am - 6pm

any

any

Pass

Staff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Student

any

any

any

any

Pass

Student

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Engineering

any

any

any

any

Pass

Engineering student

student

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faculty

any

any

any

any

Pass

Faculty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Engineering

any

any

any

any

Pass

Engineering faculty

faculty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guest

plaza, library

any

any

any

Pass

Guest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IP telephones

on campus

any

any

any

any

IP telephones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Access Policies without IDM

You can also design access policies for a network without IDM, although configuring the policies is more laborious. You must configure the policies on each RADIUS server. And, to implement dynamic settings, you must manually specify values for the RADIUS attributes that the server returns in access accept packets. Because all of this manual configuration can be tedious, your policies will often be less granular than those you could create with IDM.

Your first step is still to plan your policies. You will need one policy for each set of users to whom the RADIUS server responds in the same way. That is, for these users, the RADIUS server is using the same authentication protocols and sending the same dynamic settings after successful authentication.

As with IDM, you might create an access policy for each different type of user (such as students, faculty, and guests) that you expect on your network. Remember that a RADIUS server can also use a different policy to respond to the same set of users in different circumstances. For example, you might design one policy for students when they connect through a wired connection and another policy for students when they connect through a wireless connection.

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