Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops

["Di Fabio, Andrea" <adifabio () NSU EDU>]

We do provide RDP access to Faculty/Staff Desktops but the users still need
to authenticate against our VPN concentrators which limit their access to TCP
port 3389, DNS and a few other ports, prevents brute force attacks from the
Internet, and prevent account lockouts due to brute force.  We limit the
ports they have access to via VPN to avoid infection of the well know and
exploited MS protocols (and others) and because we do not quite trust the end
user machine.


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv on behalf of Tim Lane
Sent: Tue 2/17/2009 23:30
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Remote Access to Staff Desktops
 
Hi All,

 

We are receiving an increasing number of requests from staff to remotely
access their desktops, for a variety of reasons.

 

I would be interested in hearing if any other Universities allow this, and
if so how you are providing secure access, or if you have any
thoughts/comments on the matter.

 

Thanks,

 

Tim

 

Tim Lane

Information Security Program Manager

IT&TS

Southern Cross University 

Ph (02) 6620 3290

Mobile 0418 248 571