Re: Remote Access - no VPN

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From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Tom Jedrzejewicz
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:40 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Remote Access - no VPN

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

All,

What do you think of Remote Desktop access into our domain with no VPN?
This would mean the domain user/password is the security.

I wouldn't do it .. I am not sure about how secure RDP is by itself,
but I would not want to expose the client directly on the internet. I
would either use the TS Gateway (as Lukas suggests) or implement a VPN
of some sort. There are lots of options for VPN; I happen to like the
"Astaro Security Gateway" firewalls.

As an aside ... don't confuse the means of authentication (AD
user/password) with the mechanism of securing the data (VPN, SSL, SSH,
etc.). Lots of very secure configurations can use the AD
user/password to authenticate.

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Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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