Microsoft isn't the only company talking about these kinds of capabilities. The expectation to be able to use every kind of device (laptop, smartphone, etc.) along with corporations' desire to stop having to pay for them (let the employees buy their own!) means that many corporations are starting to punch all kinds of holes of various flavours into their network to let people use their iPhone/Windows Mobile phone/Pre/etc. as well as individually owned laptops, even internet-cafe machines and they need a way to do this securely. VPN can be a liability in this milieu - the opportunity to infect more than just the employee's mailbox becomes huge when your VPN connection gives you access to an entire corporate network. By providing intelligent gateways to specific services that don't give away the entire farm for the price of an acre, companies may become *more* secure by reducing the use of VPN access, and building smarter gateways to services.
Most employees don't need (or want) to be able to connect to most of the infrastructure, they just want (and need) the services that they use. Now, there are different ways to attain that goal, Microsoft's method isn't the only way, it's only the tip of the iceberg. - Richard Esther Schindler wrote: > On Oct 19, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Tom Perrine wrote: > >> Depending on the company, it may mean "yet another MS feature that >> we have to disable". >> > > This alone makes me very glad I asked. <big smile> > > Because if YOU folks don't know about this stuff already then for > damnedsure the average CIO won't know about it. Which means it's great > fodder for Lisa's article. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lopsa.org > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
