SMB Shares Dangerous?

A number of our employees access our windows servers using either mapped
drives or UNC paths with vpn. I am somewhat concerned that accessing our
servers this way may pose a security risk as a number of viruses proliferate
through network shares.

The shares are password protected so users do have to authenticate to access
them but as far as I know once they have authenticated, their credentials
are cached for a period of time. Also with mapped drives in particular I
believe login information is saved permanently.

I'm wondering what others thoughts are on this matter and if anyone can
point me to any articles that confirm or deny the risk (or lack there of)
for using mapped drives and/or UNC paths. Finally if there is a risk, are
there other alternatives?

Thanks
Brad


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