Last I knew (and this factored into my response), Sam worked for a consulting company.
I could, of course, be misremembering. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Steve Kradel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Client requiring a VPN Connection to their network... Um? It's normal to have lots of VPN connections set up as a consultant -- but one business, requiring the general staff of another business, to install their (default-gateway-stealing) VPN package to access a web portal or somesuch? Blech... not secure or supportable. Kiosk mode to start, and set up an infrastructure VPN tunnel long-term if possible... --Steve On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I get this all the time. It's very common with my customers. I probably have > (ok, I just checked) 83 VPN definitions in my network properties. > > > > I run a Win7 VM so that when it becomes a PITA, I can run the VPNs from the > VM. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 9:33 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Client requiring a VPN Connection to their network... Um? > > > > Concerned about this, not sure how to proceed, and this is a first for me. > > > > A long time customer has suddenly required that we access their B2B portal > via installing their VPN software, essentially connecting to their network > in order to access the portal. (We in the past, and going forward, we > utilize heavily). > > > > My concerns: > > They gave us 1 day notice. (Hardly, more like 12 hours). They emailed us > Sunday and expected that I have the vpn clients installed on all PCs by the > AM. > > I have no idea of their security on the tunnel, and what lies on their > network that could seep onto our machines. > > Their tunnelling policy is not to my liking... It hijacks all our > connections, so that our users would not be able to print, access email, > file servers, our gateway, etc. (Which might be safer... the networks > essentially can't talk to each other.) So there would be no way our users > could get anything done with the connection active. > > By their short notice and poor planning, the poor documentation, and the > badly configured installer they gave us, I just don't have much trust in the > system and their security practices. > > > > I know this must happen elsewhere with B2B stuff, is there a model I should > be following? Questions I should be asking? Agreements and security > policies to be signed? I would sure think so. > > > > In the mean time, I'm going to set up a dumb-kiosk on an isolated network > with the VPN software so my users can at least walk up to it and access what > they need so our projects keep moving. I'm going to try and address my > concerns with them, but from what I hear, their IT dept is quite hard to > work with, if you can even get anyone to help. (It's a very large company). > > > > Any thoughts and suggestions would be highly appreciated. TIA. > > > > Sam > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
