[THIN] Re: Way OT: Vendor access equipment on your internal networks
- From: "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:01:56 -0700
I have seen a number of companes who setup a separate WiFi or wired network
for outside access and make it available to certain areas such as the
conference rooms........
Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
34522 N. Scottsdale Rd. suite D8453
Scottsdale, AZ 85262
(602) 432-8649
(602) 296-0411 fax
steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Michael Pardee
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 9:57 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Way OT: Vendor access equipment on your internal networks
I'm curious how others are handling this. We are seeing more and more
external parties (Vendors, Auditors, etc.) that want to plug their equipment
in to our internal networks. Usually it is just to do some kind of
presentation. Here at our data center we have an external DSL line that we
just move from conference room to conference room and that gets them
internet connectivity without them touching our internal networks.
Lately these requests have come from remote locations that don't have much
infrastructure other than thin clients and network ports. No DSL at those
sites at all.
How are you handing this kind of issue when someone from outside needs/wants
to plug in to get network connectivity? A vendor presentation is one thing
but auditors can live on site for months and, more recently, want to bring
their own file server with them.
We check to make sure they have AV software, that it is running, and that
the DATs are current, but that won't prevent someone from running a sniffer
or password cracker on the network.
We are working with the network team to fence them of using VPNs but I
thought I would ask how others are handing this situation.
Thanks in advance.
Mike.
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