RE: pcAnywhere...Outbound Only.

From: Stephen A. Santos (ssantos@wachsco.com)
Date: 01/28/03

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From: "Stephen A. Santos" <ssantos@wachsco.com>
To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>

    The first concern would be a disgruntled employee bring in files from
    home. Another concern would be an employee who does not run virus
    software, transferring files to your server. Just a couple things to
    consider.

    ===================
    Stephen A Santos
    Network Administrator

    -----Original Message-----
    From: tony toni [mailto:tony572001@hotmail.com]
    Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 8:44 PM
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: pcAnywhere...Outbound Only.

    Hi,

    We have a rule on our firewall that allows all employees to use
    pcAnywhere
    to connect to a host OUTSIDE of our network. It is in one
    direction...that
    is from inside our network to an outside host and not vise versa. Our
    firewall administrator, came to me and asks me if I had any security
    issues
    with this. He does not want the hassle of maintaining a list of
    employees
    that can do this.

    I do not see any glaring problems doing this....what do you think?

    Tony Graves
    Security Services
    Walton International Transportation Corp.
    Seattle, Wa.

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