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Re: Risk regarding remote login services
From: Gary Flynn <flynngn () JMU EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:23:56 -0400
Basgen, Brian wrote:
I'm working on ways to adequately assess the risk of solutions like LogMeIn, GoToMyPC, etc. The main concerns that I have so far are: (1) traditional end point security issues; (2) source addresses are essentially masked by the service; (3) these solutions are user managed/not IT controlled (no policy enforcement, for example); (4) confidential/sensitive data being sent through a third party in an unmanaged way; (5) the security of the third party becomes axiomatic to your institution. The last four points, in particular, seem to make these solutions distinct from traditional VPN offerings. I don't want to get into making spacious arguments about why this solution is problematic, but it seems difficult to latch onto specifics considering such an open field of possible risk. I'm curious to know institutions that allow one of these solutions, and how they employ it. I'm also curious to hear from those that prohibit it, and what justifications they use for doing that.
Use of GoToMyPC is discouraged but not controlled. Any Internet exposure of a service, whether it be RDP or SSH, must be requested. During the handling of the request, we encourage limiting access to VPN connections or specific addresses but we do not demand it. -- Gary Flynn Security Engineer James Madison University www.jmu.edu/computing/security
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- Risk regarding remote login services Basgen, Brian (Apr 21)
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- Re: Risk regarding remote login services Koerber, Jeff (Apr 22)
- Re: Risk regarding remote login services Basgen, Brian (Apr 22)
- Re: Risk regarding remote login services Calvin Krzywiec (Apr 23)
- Re: Risk regarding remote login services King, Ronald A. (Apr 23)
- Re: Risk regarding remote login services Gary Flynn (Apr 24)
- Re: Risk regarding remote login services Basgen, Brian (Apr 24)
- Re: Risk regarding remote login services Kevin Hayes (Apr 24)
- Re: Risk regarding remote login services Di Fabio, Andrea (Apr 24)