RE: VPN between PC and VPN server

[Dave Goldsmith <dave.goldsmith () rappatech com>]

Some VPN products, such as TimeStep's PERMIT/Client, allow you to block 
direct Internet access once the VPN connection is established. If the user 
dials their ISP, establishes a VPN connection to the office and then tries 
to browse the web, all traffic can be forced to go thru the VPN tunnel to 
the office, and then only allowed out to the Internet is it meets the 
allowed traffic requirements of in-house usage.

R/S

Dave Goldsmith
dgoldsmi () erols com
dgoldsmi () rappatech com

-----Original Message-----
From:   Ellis Luk [SMTP:e_luk () hotmail com]
Sent:   Thursday, May 20, 1999 12:52 PM
To:     firewall-wizards () nfr net
Subject:        VPN between PC and VPN server

When an employee uses a VPN client to connect (through Internet)
their home PC back to the office, the company run a risk that someone
on the Net may be able to hack the employee's PC and then gain access
to the company's internal network.

Do you think an Internet VPN connection should always go through some
kind of access control (eg. through a firewall) ??
However, there are certain protocols which cannot proxy through
firewall.

--
Ellis Luk


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