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Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops
From: "Di Fabio, Andrea" <adifabio () NSU EDU>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:28:19 -0500
We do provide RDP access to Faculty/Staff Desktops but the users still need to authenticate against our VPN concentrators which limit their access to TCP port 3389, DNS and a few other ports, prevents brute force attacks from the Internet, and prevent account lockouts due to brute force. We limit the ports they have access to via VPN to avoid infection of the well know and exploited MS protocols (and others) and because we do not quite trust the end user machine. -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv on behalf of Tim Lane Sent: Tue 2/17/2009 23:30 To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] Remote Access to Staff Desktops Hi All, We are receiving an increasing number of requests from staff to remotely access their desktops, for a variety of reasons. I would be interested in hearing if any other Universities allow this, and if so how you are providing secure access, or if you have any thoughts/comments on the matter. Thanks, Tim Tim Lane Information Security Program Manager IT&TS Southern Cross University Ph (02) 6620 3290 Mobile 0418 248 571
Current thread:
- Remote Access to Staff Desktops Tim Lane (Feb 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Gary Dobbins (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Sarazen, Daniel (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Di Fabio, Andrea (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Timothy Payne (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Kieper, David (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Gary Flynn (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops HALL, NATHANIEL D. (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Mark Monroe (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Robin Polak (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Bristol, Gary L. (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Brawner, David (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops David Grisham (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Justin Dover (Feb 18)
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