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Re: Security and VPN
From: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:49:24 -0700
On 6/19/07, Andrew Vliet <Andrew.Vliet () lvs1 com> wrote:
Sohail Sarwar, 2 factor authentication is great, but personally I would go one further than Philip. I would not be putting VPN clients on employee owned systems. Yes, I say no clients - period. Too many variables - too insecure. I understand that it's expensive, but none the less, I would either put in a Citrix farm or purchase dedicated, company owned and maintained machines for your employees to use at home. Add the VPN client to these machines company owned machines. When considering the speed and volatility of trojans and viruses these days; Adding VPN to an unknown, uncontrolled, insecure client - even after adding Antivirus checking, etc - is simply asking for trouble. Of course, we haven't even touched on the legal and privacy implications of the company having direct access to an employee's personal network, all computers there-in and visa versa. VPN on employee machines == bad idea - don't do it. Provide Citrix or dedicated, managed machines. Regards, Andrew Vliet
I fully agree - no employee machines on the network. However, our company will not entertain the idea of either a Citrix solution or loaner machines for people to take home. We've come up with a solution that mitigates this risk, at the cost of some end-user effort. We have cobbled together a VMWare player app, with Ubuntu running IPSec for connectivity and rdesktop so that they can connect to their own machines, or a TS server. This works well, if they have any kind of decent machine at home. Kurt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This List Sponsored by: Cenzic Are you using SPI, Watchfire or WhiteHat? Consider getting clear vision with Cenzic See HOW Now with our 20/20 program! http://www.cenzic.com/c/2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- Security and VPN Sohail Sarwar (Jun 18)
- RE: Security and VPN Philip Cox (Jun 19)
- RE: Security and VPN Andrew Vliet (Jun 19)
- Re: Security and VPN The Sun (Jun 19)
- RE: Security and VPN Russell Butturini (Jun 20)
- Re: Security and VPN The Sun (Jun 20)
- RE: Security and VPN Zhihao (Jun 22)
- Re: Security and VPN Robin Wood (Jun 20)
- Re: Security and VPN Ben Nell (Jun 20)
- RE: Security and VPN Russell Butturini (Jun 21)
- RE: Security and VPN Andrew Vliet (Jun 19)
- RE: Security and VPN Philip Cox (Jun 19)
- Re: Security and VPN Kurt Buff (Jun 22)
- RE: Security and VPN Jessie Ling XX (MC/EPA) (Jun 19)