security

[John Aldrich]

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 02:24 pm, Michelle Young wrote:
> what product do you have that will provide our company with a secure vpn
> connection over the internet?  we are using realvnc and winvnc free
> editions currently and our computers were accessed.  so now we've closed
> access on all the computers.  but we still need a way to work from
> outside our network.  your thoughts?
>
You have two options:
1) Purchase the enterprise version of VNC which has encryption built-in or
2) Come up with some other sort of VPN and then "tunnel" VNC over the VPN 
solution. 

Free VNC has the "security risk" that anyone can access it if they know the 
name/ip address of the server and know/can guess the password. What you 
really need, as I said previously, is either *pay* for the commercial VNC or 
use some other sort of VPN app to create an encrypted tunnel. 

Personally, I use SSH to create an encrypted tunnel and then run VNC 
over/through the SSH tunnel. Solves the problem for me. However, there are 
other solutions, such as Hamachi (Windows/Linux),  Microsoft VPN apps (Mostly 
Windows) or 3rd-party VPN apps, such as Cisco, etc.