Re: Newsgroup filtering with host server software

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
<j7hd45xoh6.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Flash Gordon wrote:

Moe Trin wrote, On 27/12/07 20:00:

where I wrote:

]]]] at work we simply block access to the IP ranges used by Hotmail
]]]] (and yahoo, and gmail, and others).

it might understand hotmail, et.al. just isn't an option.

In my case I can be behind another companies firewall and that other
company may well block access to hotmail et.al. but *might* be prepared
to poke a hole to let me access my companies system.

Depends - we're an R&D facility, so we're rather tightly controlled. We
basically don't allow "visiting computers", though we do have several
computers scattered about that are isolated from our network that can
be used by visitors (and employees for non-business activities).

"company WebMail access"???

Yes, my employer provides me with a web portal to the company email
system, i.e. company webmail. I know that both the Domino Server from
IBM and Exchange from MS can provide this.

We tend to frown on web access - especially for mail.

Allowing Joe User (or more likely, Joe User's son/daughter because
Joe has trouble just using a web browser) to set up remote access on
his work desktop is the height of folly.

Fortunately I am not "Joe User" but someone who helps out our
undermanned IT department and probably know more about making *my*
machines secure than our IT department. I agree with your points though.

My wife works at a large, but privately held company, and the owner had
been cutting corners and underfunding things like computer security.
One of the users got owned, and through lack of security setups, the
company's network because an open spam relay and mail-drop. That was
bad enough, but then the law got involved because some idealist had
filed a criminal complaint (I dunno - maybe the pills didn't work).
Fun, frolic, and a new IT department.

If you need access from "outside", you should be using an SSL service
requiring both dedicated hard/software and a "password" (that isn't
"remembered" by some application).

I would not always go that far. That is our *main* method of external
access to email, but I can use webmail when there is no other method.

Our auditors (internal, and those from customers) won't allow that.

Old guy
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