Is the USYD wireless Network secure?
The basic connection is not secure. That is why access is restricted to only the wireless setup pages and https sites such as Sydney Mail and eLearning. In order to access other websites you will need to use the Cisco VPN Client. Information and instructions on how to download the Cisco VPN Client are available in the Troubleshooting section. You will need to connect to the Cisco VPN client every time you want to access external webpages on the wireless network. A VPN client aims to secure a path of communication from the client machine to the VPN server. All communications between the client machine and the VPN server are encrypted, then “wrapped” with enough networking information for the intervening machines to pass the network data packets to their destination. The only part of the data that intervening machines can read is the network source and destination. Machines between the VPN server and the client cannot read the contents of the data packet. The data is encrypted until it r
