Policies on 3rd Party Remote Access Applications

[Jim Pardonek <jpardonek () LUC EDU>]

I'm looking for some information of what your University's stance is on the use of applications such as Jump Desktop, 
LogMeIn, GoToMyPC, etc.  I tend to have an issue with users connecting to their desktop without the security of our VPN 
and ability to audit who is connecting and when.  As we all know, most users are not as creative as we would like them 
to be when it comes to creating passwords for services like the ones above and although I don't think there have been 
any successful attempts at getting accounts and passwords from these services, you never know.
 
Loyola currently has no policy regarding these services so I'm not sure, based on what others are doing if we should, 
or do we just let it go.
 
Thanks,
 
Jim
 
 
James Pardonek, CISSP, CEH
Information Security Officer
Loyola University Chicago 
1032 W. Sheridan Road | Chicago, IL  60660

(: (773) 508-6086