My university doesn&#x27;t really have a concept of &quot;The Network&quot; being privileged or sensitive. It&#x27;s just a route to the internet, like any other utility ISP. There&#x27;s 802.1x authentication with your SSO credentials (both wired and wireless with WPA2 enterprise), so your actions are accountable, and if you&#x27;re doing botnet&#x2F;spam&#x2F;blackhat things they can cut you off and come find you. WPA2 enterprise uses a certificate to authenticate the AP to the client, so pirate WiFi isn&#x27;t a security issue either, just an interference problem.<p>Services are all exposed to the internet (mostly as webapps) with Shibboleth CAS&#x2F;SSO authentication. The only thing you need &quot;The Network&quot; for is IP whitelisting for journals. There&#x27;s a web proxy you can use for that if you&#x27;re off campus. We also have a separate guest SSID that&#x27;s routed through non-whitelisted IPs.<p>We have a distinction between &quot;Managed Computer&quot; and &quot;other,&quot; where Managed Computers are required for data that&#x27;s confidential or subject to regulation. I&#x27;m sure there are Managed Computers in finance&#x2F;payroll&#x2F;scary labs but your average professor or student doesn&#x27;t need one.