Re: pcAnywhere...Outbound Only.

[Glen Mehn <glen () myvest com>]

> On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 21:44, tony toni wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have a rule on our firewall that allows all employees to use pcAnywhere 
> > to connect to a host OUTSIDE  of our network.  It is in one direction...that 
> > is from inside our network to an outside host and not vise versa.  Our 
> > firewall administrator, came to me and asks me if I had any security issues 
> > with this.  He does not want the hassle of maintaining a list of employees 
> > that can do this.
> >
> >    
> >
> > I do not see any glaring problems doing this....what do you think?
> >    

it just depends on how sensitive the traffic is: it's not encrypted, or 
it wasn't the last time I used PC Anywhere. You can tunnel VNC 
connections through ssh, though (it's tough to tunnel PC Anywhere, as it 
uses multiple ports and uses udp)

-g

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Glen Mehn               glen () myvest com
Systems Administrator   MyVest, LLC