Our business involves customers (called contractors, as they sign
contracts with us) accessing a couple of applications.  The contractors
come in, enter information, and have the ability to track this
information, so that they can make any changes they need to make.  We're
making some changes to our infrastructure, and I wanted to get some
opinions about the "right" way of allowing outside customers access to
our system.  We don't have a DMZ at the moment, but we will be going to
that soon, as soon as I get our new firewalls in.  One of our developers
here, who also has some networking experience has suggested that we
setup another domain in the DMZ, and create trust relationships with the
internal domain.  The contracts typically last about 2 years, and the
active contracts change on a monthly basis.  My concern would be knowing
when contractors left, and need to be removed from AD within the DMZ
domain.
 
My thoughts were to simply install the public webserver in the DMZ, and
configure rights, etc. for the contractors to come into that server, and
access the databases within the network.  Isn't that the "normal" model?
 
Haven't dealt with this all that much, so I'm going to hit Google once
this is posted.  Any tips/advice would be appreciated, as always.
 
Joe Heaton
AISA
Employment Training Panel
1100 J Street, 4th Floor
Sacramento, CA  95814
(916) 327-5276
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