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RE: Security of satellite links into an organisation
From: "Wigg, Guy G" <GWigg () mail sbic co za>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:10:48 +0200
We have branches that are geographically wide spread. Since bandwidth is so expensive here we only have ISP links in one location. We don't want surfing stuff coming across our WAN links because of the expense and hence the satellite idea, the requests going across the WAN will be minimal. Guy -----Original Message----- From: Calabrese, Christopher [mailto:christopher_calabrese () merck com] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 7:45 PM To: 'Wigg, Guy G' Subject: RE: [fw-wiz] Security of satellite links into an organisation Umm, why not just put this box outside your firewall? -----Original Message----- From: Wigg, Guy G [mailto:GWigg () mail sbic co za] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 9:43 AM Subject: [fw-wiz] Security of satellite links into an organisation Hi all Bandwidth in South Africa is expensive and the response times are not at all that great. We have decided that a good solution for surfing the net is via satellite. One of the SA ISPs offer this service. This would be the basic set-up, they supply a proxy (MS proxy) that they propose sits on the organisation's backbone network. The http request exits the organisation via our landlines to a proxy at the respective ISP. On exiting we obviously control the connection via the firewall we have in place. The ISP then sends the return WebPages to the organisation via the satellite dish. My question is what is the security risk of this set-up? We now have an unprotected pipe coming into the network. Agreed the hacker wouldn't get any responses since the dish can only receive (the responses would blocked by the land FW infrastructure). What risk would we be putting ourselves at? Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. thanks Guy _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://www.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://www.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Security of satellite links into an organisation Wigg, Guy G (Jan 25)
- Re: Security of satellite links into an organisation Tom (Jan 26)
- Re: Security of satellite links into an organisation Chris Keladis (Jan 26)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Security of satellite links into an organisation Randy Garbrick (Jan 25)
- RE: Security of satellite links into an organisation LeGrow, Matt (Jan 25)
- Re: Security of satellite links into an organisation dharris (Jan 25)
- RE: Security of satellite links into an organisation Wigg, Guy G (Jan 26)
- RE: RE: Security of satellite links into an organisation Safier, Adam (GEIO) (Jan 26)
- Re: Security of satellite links into an organisation Tom (Jan 26)