Re: publications concerning port forwarding

On 10/04/07, Jason L. Ellison <infotek@datasync.com> wrote:
> List,
>
>   I'm currently doing work for a large company as a consultant.  Another
> consultant is installing a MS Exchange server and is now requesting for me
> to forward ports on the PIX from the Internet to internal servers.

If they mean a couple of ports like IMAP and POP, then it's not great,
but not such a security risk. If I remember Exchange though, it wants
a huge swathe of ports opened up for goodness knows what. At a
previous workplace, we used to allow 'native' access to Exchange, but
only via our VPN server, not direct to the internet.

Couldn't you suggest using Outlook Web Access, or whatever it's
called? i.e. just open HTTPS through to the internal network. Not
wonderful, but probably better. I assume that's what OWA is intended
for, and it seems to be normal practice.

cheers,
Jamie
--
Jamie Riden, CISSP / jamesr@europe.com / jamie@honeynet.org.uk
UK Honeynet Project: http://www.ukhoneynet.org/

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