In addition to the personal firewall consider a "Call-Back." Where the users home phone is statically entered and when the a call is placed into the modem, the connection is terminated and the modem automatically calls the users home computer back to establish the connection.
-----Original Message----- From: list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 5:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Chris Berry' Subject: RE: Modem Security You could install a personal firewall on the individuals PC. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Modem Security I think I've got my internet connection security coming together, but I'm worried about a potential back door. I have one worker who absolutely has to have a modem to contact the legacy system our billing service uses. What bothers me is that someone might get clever and use a war dialer to find this number and try and hack their way around my secure gateway. I'd like to make this more difficult or at least have some way to contain the damage. Does anyone have any ideas? I thought of possibly putting a linux box configured as a firewall between her and the rest of the network, but I'd have to have alot of ports open to allow all the services she'll need so I don't know if that would even help much.
