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Re: Home users with VPN connections
From: camthompson <camthompson () shaw ca>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:16:42 -0700
Jonathan Grotegut wrote:
Forgive me if this seems trivial or "newbieish" but I am new toAny Internetwork should have equal security at all access points to the internet.the "Security" end of computing.With the new CERT Advisory CA-2003-08. I got me to thinking "What are others policies, procedures, and requirements for home users connectingvia VPN to a corporate network?"When a person connects a VPN connection from their home to the office, they can very easily have a Trojan or a virus. This would allow for easyinfection or access to the corporate network.What are what are your thoughts on policies, procedures, requirements for VPN users connecting to the corporate network as far as Passwordrequirements, Personal Firewalls, Virus Software, Etc.?Thanks in advance for your sugestions. By the way our clients vary. Our clients are all in different professions, meaning we have everything fromhealth care providers to mortgage companies to printing companies. Jonathan Grotegut DirectPointe
I guess that means you (or whoever wantsa vpn connection the the corporate network) should have just as good security measures as the networks you are connecting to. What if the corporation has a PIX or some other expensive firewall equipment? Then you should have sime kind of hardware firewall, maybe a linux gateway running iptables. Then a software firewall on the workstation with a good virus scanner to keep trojans and such off that machine.
Cam
Current thread:
- Home users with VPN connections Jonathan Grotegut (Mar 13)
- Re: Home users with VPN connections Gene Yoo (Mar 17)
- Re: Home users with VPN connections Pierre A. Cadieux (Mar 17)
- Re: Home users with VPN connections David M. Fetter (Mar 17)
- Re: Home users with VPN connections lassal (Mar 17)
- Re: Home users with VPN connections camthompson (Mar 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Home users with VPN connections ladhanikarim (Mar 17)
- Re: Home users with VPN connections James Lee Gromoll (Mar 19)
- Re: Home users with VPN connections Chris Berry (Mar 20)
- RE: Home users with VPN connections Brent Woodard (Mar 21)
- RE: Home users with VPN connections Mike Dresser (Mar 25)
- RE: Home users with VPN connections Kevin Saenz (Mar 26)
- RE: Home users with VPN connections Mike Dresser (Mar 25)
- RE: Home users with VPN connections Chris Berry (Mar 24)
- RE: Home users with VPN connections John Brightwell (Mar 25)