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This time, how secure is Citrix?
From: Cesar Diaz <cdiaz00 () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:47:42 -0500
List, I asked a question a few days ago about how secure VPN access is for home users on their own home PCs. I received many helpful answers. Thank you all for that. I also want to ask everyones opinion on how secure remote access through Citrix can be. We use Citrix MetaFrame XP available through Nfuse available thorugh a public IP address. The Nfuse website is secured with 128-bit SSL. Our firewall only allows port 443 to access the server through that IP. The concern now isn't as much the possibility of viruses, worm, etc. spreading since this is not a direct connection to our LAN like a VPN. The concern is that if a hacker has gained access to the users home computer, then they can access the resources on the network that the user accesses. The idea has been floated of running a script when the user connects that deletes their default route to the Internet, then adds a route directly to our network. This should theoretically remove access to their machine from the Internet. We would run an exit script that reverses this so they get their connectivity back. Thanks again for any advice, Cesar Diaz
Current thread:
- This time, how secure is Citrix? Cesar Diaz (Nov 19)
- Re: This time, how secure is Citrix? Matthew Romanek (Nov 19)
- Re: This time, how secure is Citrix? Tariq Malik (Nov 22)
- Re: This time, how secure is Citrix? richardw (Nov 19)
- RE: This time, how secure is Citrix? Nick Owen (Nov 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: This time, how secure is Citrix? Javier Otero De Alba (Nov 19)
- RE: This time, how secure is Citrix? Dante Mercurio (Nov 19)
- Re: This time, how secure is Citrix? Matthew Romanek (Nov 19)