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Re: Level3 routing issues?

  • From: Jack Bates
  • Date: Sun Jan 26 13:47:27 2003

From: "Michael Lamoureux"

>
> Note that in the case of a worm, a VPN could work against you.  If you
> have all the right filters in place at your "perimeter" and yet let
> your employees in through a VPN solution of some sort, you could still
> be screwed if one of their home systems gets infected somehow.
>
>
So what you're saying is that a really good worm could infiltrate any secure
network by targetting those who vpn from exterior sources, collect data, and
then run? Hmmm. Wait a sec. Would that constitute a worm if it had purpose?

Jack Bates
Network Engineer






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