Re: Client application to control access to untrusted networks?

["H. Willstrand" <h.willstrand () gmail com>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:22 PM,  <louder () hotmail com> wrote:
> Hello,I am just looking to see if anyone can provide any experiences and/or recommendations of software to be 
> installed on clients that is "location aware" and can enforce certain ACL's or network policies. i.e. Symantec, 
> McAfee, Cisco?

Base security should include:
* Firewall with a appropriate rule set (e.g. only allowing access to
your corporate network before the VPN-connection is ready, all
Internet access via the VPN-connection)
* Application updates (Adobe, Microsoft, etc.) should only be
performed via the VPN-connection
* Anti-virus with the latest update
* No group / shared credentials to your corporate services
* Users should not have administration rights on their PC
* Strong passwords combined with additional security mechanism
(something you know, something you have)
* Activated administration password for BIOS setup
* Boot only via harddisk
* Encrypted local disk
* Logging activated at server side (log-in, application auditing, etc.)
...

> My scenario and what I am trying to do is with my users laptops, currently we do not allow them to connect to any 
> public wireless networks. Ofcourse this is something that I am being pressured on allowing. We would like to be able 
> to force a VPN client to load as soon as the mobile device running Windows XP connects to a public "hot spot" and if 
> the VPN connection fails to disconnect the system from that network. It would be an IPSEC VPN from either Cisco or 
> Juniper.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Brandon L.

My 2ct
/HW

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install and use a thawte Digital Certificate on your Apache web server. Throughout, best practices for set-up are 
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