Re:Die, VPN: We're all "telecommuters" now—and IT must...
by purephase on Thursday October 13, 2011 @01:43PM
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A fairly narrow set of applications listed on the 2nd page of the article. I think an important reason promoting the use of VPN services is not that you are protecting yourself from your users, you are protecting yourself against poorly written 3rd-party or in-house applications.
There are a lot of companies that are forced to use really large, complex applications that combine a myriad of different technologies. It's one thing to patch servers, it's another task altogether to try and maintain and update applications that stretch across mainframes, various database and mid-tier applications, with mixed-web/thick client access. The dependencies alone are a nightmare to try and manage.
To me, this is the most important reason for securing remote users. I want to protect them, and the company, from the medusas.
There are a lot of companies that are forced to use really large, complex applications that combine a myriad of different technologies. It's one thing to patch servers, it's another task altogether to try and maintain and update applications that stretch across mainframes, various database and mid-tier applications, with mixed-web/thick client access. The dependencies alone are a nightmare to try and manage.
To me, this is the most important reason for securing remote users. I want to protect them, and the company, from the medusas.