RE: [fw-wiz] risk level associated with VPNs?

From: Michael Surkan (msurkan_at_windows.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/06/05

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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 09:43:42 -0800

    Perhaps one solution to reduce VPN risk levels is simply not to use them
    in the first place. A lot of organizations are now making the
    applications their users need available over the directly over the
    internet with web browsers (e.g. e-mail).

    Isn't it preferable to give users access to e-mail, or other common
    apps, by web-proxy and only give VPN accounts to a handful of
    administrators? Taken to its extreme, maybe tunneling IP traffic over
    VPNs can be done away with altogether.

    Is this a goal administrators should strive for?

    Cheers,
    Michael Surkan

    P.S. I don't really have a strong opinion about this, I am just posing a
    solution that I hear some administrators talk about.

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