Re: AD in the DMZ . . . OK?

From: Tomasz Onyszko (T.Onyszko_at_w2k.pl)
Date: 07/29/04

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To: karl <opium@runningriver.co.uk>, security-basics@securityfocus.com

    karl wrote:

    > Hello
    >
    > One of the developers I work with has come up with a wild and crazy
    > notion to write a .NET app that sits on a DMZ Web server but gets user
    > information from the Active Directory on the other side of the firewall..
    >
    > I'm inexperienced with this, so did some research and found that this
    > kind of thing is possible (plenty of articles on putting Exchange
    > servers in the DMZ), but found myself wondering if this ever happens,
    > i.e. do people actually have their networks set up this way? Do folk
    > expose/replicate AD to the DMZ in practice?
    >
    > It's all very well that this stuff is possible, but if it's perceived as
    > insecure and not implementable in the real world . . . . . . .
    >
    > Thanks for any advice . . . . .
    >
    I will not recommend such configuration, this is not good from the
    security point of view and also it may caouse some problems with Your
    firewall configuration an produce another "exception" in firewall
    policy. Instead of this I will recommend using ADAM (AD in Application
    Mode) and if this application needs to get data from AD You can replicte
    data from AD to ADAM using MIIS (Feature Pack) or ADAM Synchronizer
    which are avilable for free form micrsofot site 

    -- 
Tomasz Onyszko [MVP]
T.Onyszko@w2k.pl
http://www.w2k.pl
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