To achieve similar goals, Framingham State is deploying Bradford Campus Manager, which is software for registering client devices and checking that they have up-to-date software, including anti-virus.

The software collects the device's media access control address, which is then associated with a range of other user information: IP address, user name, dorm address, phone number. "If a student sets up an FTP server, we can now track that to what port they're plugged into, what room they're in," Zinkus says.