RE: VPN & Security Question

Richard what industry do you work in? If you work in banking or some other
high risk area you may have to use VPN otherwise why bother.
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callwalker


"Richard Brooks" wrote:

> I hope this is not a stupid question but is a VPN really necessary for
> secure terminal services? If you change the servers administrator name to
> something encrypted and use 8 alpha numeric character strong passwords and
> set the encryption to high, how would someone gain access to the server?
> With brute force, you would not only have to try all passwords but all
> usernames as well. And if the encryption is set to high, Man in the middle
> attacks would not be very effective either. Also, you would set policy so
> only an administrator can log in to the server, so social engineering would
> not be an issue either. So, why add the extra VPN layer that only degrades
> performance?
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> Thanks
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