Re: iPad and access to university ERP

[Greg Schaffer <schaffer () MTSU EDU>]

I believe the encryption is only 40 bit.

 

Greg

 

Greg Schaffer, CISSP

Assistant Vice President

Network and Information Technology Security

Middle Tennessee State University

615 898-5753

 

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Theresa Rowe
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:19 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] iPad and access to university ERP

 

I just received this email from a department manager:

"First thing I did was installed an app called Remote Desktop Lite (free). I
used that to remote into my Windows machine on my desk and it worked
beautifully. I pulled up Banner and found it to be really easy to work with
on the iPad. What I liked the most was I didn't have to tab into the entry
fields. I could touch them and the cursor would move. If I only had that on
my desktop!"

Wonderful....  So I'm thinking what is open on the desktop and what is the
security of the transmission.  We force VPN use from off-campus.  I thought
we had the remote desktop thing handled in terms of accessing our ERP.

Am I unreasonably concerned?

-- 
Theresa Rowe
Chief Information Officer
Oakland University
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