Ron,

 

This might be overboard but maybe there's something here you could use.

 

If the employee information is sensitive I'd store it on a central server
for security -lock it down with very limited access. To allow access to the
website I would definitely create user accounts for each individual just
because then you have fine grained control over any activity. If there are
really only a few big groups of access you could do a simple group system
where each login is associated with a group and the group has the
privileges.

 

Perhaps instead of cfntauthenticate you could use a database or custom
flat-file to store the authentication information. This allows you separate
the accounts that have access to the server and access to the website. Even
accounts that aren't allowed to login are accounts that could potentially be
compromised.

 

As for people external to the network you could setup a "dummy" server
outside the firewall that connects to the internal server over SSL only.
This allows only encrypted data out and provides a second layer of security
to get to the employee info, in case the external server is compromised.

 

Robert Gatti 

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