Re: Secure OWA

["Mark Senior" <senatorfrog () gmail com>]

On 8/30/06, Renshaw, Rick (C.) wrote:
> >
> There's two sides to this risk.  If you allow OWA logins to lock out
> accounts, and your OWA page is available from anywhere on the Internet, you
> are handing an easy DOS tool to anyone that knows the account names for
> people on your server.

I think a possibly better approach, although it doesn't seem like you
could implement it quite as simply as account lockouts, would be to
lock out, not the account, but the originating IP address, for a
duration.

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