Firewall Wizards: RE: risk level associated with VPNs?

From: Michael Surkan <msurkan_at_windows.microsoft.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 09:43:42 -0800

Perhaps one solution to reduce VPN risk levels is simply not to use them
in the first place. A lot of organizations are now making the
applications their users need available over the directly over the
internet with web browsers (e.g. e-mail).

Isn't it preferable to give users access to e-mail, or other common
apps, by web-proxy and only give VPN accounts to a handful of
administrators? Taken to its extreme, maybe tunneling IP traffic over
VPNs can be done away with altogether.

Is this a goal administrators should strive for?

Cheers,
Michael Surkan

P.S. I don't really have a strong opinion about this, I am just posing a
solution that I hear some administrators talk about.

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Received on Feb 12 2005