Re: The Wisdom of Allowing an Open Port

[Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () UTC EDU>]

Ummm... 
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=groupwise&search_type=all&cves=on
for starters?

Jeff

On 11/28/2012 5:18 PM, Jim Pardonek wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>  
> On our hospital campus we have an "open" wlan that requires the usual rudimentary form
> of authentication (some email address and your name) to gain access, similar to a
> hotel portal.  Some of the medical staff want us to open port 1373 TCP so that they
> can access our GroupWise (I know) servers using the regular client application.  Other
> than the normal reasons for keeping everything except 80 and 443 closed, I'm looking
> to see if anyone would like to weigh in on reasons for and against opening this up.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Jim
>  
>  
> *James Pardonek, CISSP, CEH*
> *Information Security Officer**
> Loyola University Chicago 
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> **
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