GoToMyPC, GoToAssist, etc.

[iamnowonmai at gmail.com (iamnowonmai)]

We block it because it uses a level of authentication that is less that what
we roll out to corporate users. Nothing personal....

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Gregory Baker
<travelingregbaker at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Rick,
>
> We've blocked & set policies accordingly for Gotomypc &
> remotelyAnywhere/logmein in our infrastructure. House consel voiced concerns
> about proprietary information security.
>
> However, if I understand your email correctly your internal users are
> reaching out to other machines in a support capacity. We have this issue and
> overcome this by getting a bomgar B100 device which works exactly like
> gotomypc but is totally under our control. Of course one needs to provide a
> wan facing ip address with tcp 80 & 443 ports.
>
> $.02 deposited.
>
>
> --- On Mon, 3/8/10, Rick Hayes <rick.hayes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Rick Hayes <rick.hayes at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Pauldotcom] GoToMyPC, GoToAssist, etc.
> > To: "PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List" <
> pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com>
> > Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 9:17 AM
> > I wanted to get consensus on the thoughts on
> > allowing access to GoToMyPC, GoToAssist, etc.for internal
> > users to an external entity.  Are the majority of you
> > blocking these?  If so, what are your concerns specifically
> > with GoToMyPC.   I understand the whole circumventing web
> > content filtering argument, but was really hoping for
> > something more than some corporate opposition to porn.
> >
> >
> > What would be the concerns raised with GoToAssist?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rick Hayes
> > CISSP, CCSP, OSWP, GSEC, GCFA, GSLC
> >
> >
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