those guys: the suits, on travel, in need of a hotspot are almost always going to be using a vpn solution to get back to their exchange server on their home network. shared drives: xp nt and 2k all have c$ and admin$ shares by default, they are usually locked down, but not impenetrable.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Julian Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:11 AM Subject: Re: [BAWUG] t-mobile security strategy > Let's put it in the context of the average dumb suit running MS Win on a > laptop. They're likely to be using the web, email and IM. They probably > don't share their drives. > > So out of all this, the biggest problem is email. They need to be able > send and receive from Outlook regardless of location and in safety. So > all we need is for the mail server to support > - SMTP-Auth > - Either SMTPs or SMTP with STARTTLS > - POP3S or IMAPS > Now all passwords are TLS encrypted and the SMTP send server can be used > from anywhere. And all this is supported by Outlook already. > > Now the Corporate sysadmins should be providing all this. But too often > they don't. And the public ISPs should be providing all this, but they > don't see the need yet. I've talked to BT Openzone about this and they > don't see it as their problem to provide email. So I talked to > BTOpenworld and they don't see it as *their* problem because they supply > broadband, not roaming email. I worked in a computer security > consultancy last summer. They were obsessed with control but couldn't > manage to setup SMTPS and IMAPs for their engineers who all worked from > home. Their smtp server only accepted email from inside the firewall. > > So what is our notional suit to do? > > -- > Julian Bond Email&MSM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Webmaster: http://www.ecademy.com/ > Personal WebLog: http://www.voidstar.com/ > CV/Resume: http://www.voidstar.com/cv/ > M: +44 (0)77 5907 2173 T: +44 (0)192 0412 433 > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
