Re: pcAnywhere...Outbound Only.

From: Glen Mehn (glen@myvest.com)
Date: 01/29/03

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From: Glen Mehn <glen@myvest.com>
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com

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    >On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 21:44, tony toni wrote:
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    >
    >>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?
    >>
    >>

    it just depends on how sensitive the traffic is: it's not encrypted, or
    it wasn't the last time I used PC Anywhere. You can tunnel VNC
    connections through ssh, though (it's tough to tunnel PC Anywhere, as it
    uses multiple ports and uses udp)

    -g 

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Glen Mehn		glen@myvest.com
Systems Administrator	MyVest, LLC

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