How secure is remote desktop

From: "Cnews" <carl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:46:46 -0500

I had a consultant give me the fire drill about how our network is at risk
because we have 2 people connecting via remote desktop to 1 server. These
are set in GP to enforce high encryption level. My understanding is this
is secure- and according to the technet article I read- even login
credentials are encrypted.
Is this correct? Is the contractor just trying to scare us to have hime
setup a vpn for $$$.
Looking for comments

Thanks

craig

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Craig Niedringhaus
craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.milwaukeenet.net
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