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I have a cable modem at home, so does my partner. My boss has DSL. I dont have a phone line in my house anymore. I want to be able to VPN into work. We have an esoft box that allows this and has an easy setup for it. My coworker spazzes saying "NO VPNS, it will eat up our bandwidth and slow the whole company down! Its not secure at all and not proven technology." We would have maybe one person, every once in a while using the VPN, I cant see where that would slow down our T1 line! It would mostly be used off hours anyways. What do you guys/girls think?
 
If it's after hours what does he care? And if it's setup properly (using client certs instead of simple passwords, frequent rekeying, etc) it can be "secure enough".
 
It can be very secure depending on how you set it up. We use SecureID tokens for access.

It is highly proven technology and many business have replaced traditional LANs with Internet based VPNs.

Eating up bandwidth? Well, that may be true but only if you roll this out to many people and are at high utilization anyway.
 
If he's concerned about bandwidth...then pilot it. Install it, have him track the bandwidth utilization for 4 weeks, and you log all your usage time. See if he even notices your access. How exactly would remote access slow the whole company down? --Do you currently slow the whole company down with your local access??

"Proven technology" yes, I would say it is. (My advice is worth exactly what you paid for it!)

--Woodie
 
If we didnt have VPN from nortel then we wouldnt get half the work done that we do!
It does not eat up a ton of bandwith, that is just plain ridiculous, and even if it added to bandwith like he thinks, it would be after hours so who cares. I agree with pilotinh it out, it would prove or disprove the viabilty of it in your company.

We cant live without it here....
 
I could understand if we had 150 people VPNing into work at the same time. Then we would have bandwidth problems. Not with one person, randomly logging in. He makes it sound like we are guarding highly sensitive material at work, we are not. I said I think we should try it and he spazzes saying "he will not be responsible for being hacked and having our system go down for days accounting for hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost business." So my boss is fearfull that he just might be right. Its aggravating.
 
OK. so hacking is a concern. Fair enough. The VPN technology has proven to be secure enough so far, so that moves the problem to the endpoint, your client. For us to allow you to VPN in, you must have a company-built/owned PC, with current A/V software, and a personal firewall, installed & configured by the company. The client is a managed PC, meaning it gets all of our routine client distributions, just as if it were sitting on your desk at work.

The FW and AV are because sometimes the client will be used just to browse the web, w/o going throught the company FW, and we want to make sure that machine is always protected.

Feel free to quote me, as an example of a company that IS concerned about VPN security.

--Woodie
 
I do have a company built (by me) pc with company supplied A/V and a firewall. Thanks for the feedback, I would feel secure about doing it, now to convince my boss.
 
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