Re: Citrix vs OWA

[David Lang <david.lang () digitalinsight com>]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Brian Gardner wrote:

> Greetings everyone.
>
> As the network administrator (and security minded person) for our small
> local government network (300 users), I've been asked to make our
> internal email (Exchange 2003) and other applications (not web based
> apps, just internal) and files available from the internet through our
> Checkpoint firewall.  I've done much reading on Outlook Web Access and
> it's security implications as well as followed the many topics here
> regarding remote access.  What I haven't seen mentioned here as an
> alternative to OWA is Citrix via the Presentation Server and Secure
> Gateway.
>
> Assuming you deploy the Citrix solution properly, apply patches, etc,
> what is the general consensus regarding Citrix?  Good idea?  Bad idea?
> At this point I haven't deployed or setup anything, and I'm not looking
> for specific instructions or how-to's, rather a feel for which I'm going
> to have the least amount of trouble with, and an answer to the statement
> my supervisor(s) make that "everybody else does it, why can't we?"

the microsoft RDP has been enhanced over the years so that it also does 
encryption (like the citrix stuff), the key question is what you do for 
authentication. There are plugins for Citrix for token-based 
authentication systems, and some of those vendors are now starting to 
support raw RDP ('terminal server') use.

David Lang

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deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
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