Re: pcAnywhere...Outbound Only.

From: ATD (simon@snosoft.com)
Date: 01/29/03

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    From: ATD <simon@snosoft.com>
To: tony toni <tony572001@hotmail.com>
Date: 28 Jan 2003 22:50:54 -0500

    The communication is one way but the traffic is two way, so yes it could
    be an issue if some crafty black hat hacker decided to make it so. ;o)
    Just my two cents.

    On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 21:44, tony toni wrote:
    > 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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ATD <simon@snosoft.com>
Secure Network Operations, Inc.

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