[SBE] ENCO

[Bruce Doerle]

Jon,

Network security is really a local operating system and local network issue and is not related to the ENCO automation application that is run on the machines. 

Your best bet is to run a separate and isolated network.  We do exactly that and the network does have direct outside access except  for two gateway machines (but I limit where these machines can go) that need to access content, but all run through one or more firewalls.  No PC uses a public access IP addresses; all are private addresses.  More importantly, we use virus protection on all machines and the operating system updates and virus updates religiously.

Finally, we do regular backups of our ENCO database to ensure rapid restoration.

Nothing is 100% full proof; but these are the University's recommendations for 'best' practices.

bcd  




>>> On 7/9/2009 at 6:17 PM, in message

<65d180bd0907091517l190c4485jf5ceeeed0e3202c9 at mail.gmail.com>, Jonathan Solomon
<jonstv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Blake-

> 

> 

> Thanks for your response.  We are looking at the system, but the main

> concern is network security.  We will have a lot of intellectual

> property on the system, and we want to limit the accessibility, while

> still making it available to the remote user on a public network.  It

> seems ENCO is not concerned with system security.  Have you guys had

> to deal with that aspect at all?

> 

> Thanks again.

> Jon

>