{"id":2635,"date":"2012-07-13T12:52:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T12:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/jul\/13\/secure-remote-access-for-businesses-with-limited-it-staff-and-budgets\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T12:52:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T12:52:34","slug":"establish-secure-remote-access-with-limited-staff-and-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/establish-secure-remote-access-with-limited-staff-and-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Establish secure remote access with limited staff and budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With some of the recent breaches of restaurant chains, I&rsquo;ve got to think that many of them were related to poor remote access practices. I say this because in all of my years of consulting, I have found that very weak controls around the remote access is a lot more common than one would think.<\/p>\n<p>Even today you will commonly find things like POS Servers directly accessible on the Internet via VNC, RDP, or pcAnywhere. I have even seen SQL databases that contain credit card data made directly accessible over the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the organization itself is to blame. Usually because they just don&rsquo;t know any better. For many, this has been the standard way to connect with their restaurants or stores remotely. They may lack the skills needed to setup secure remote access.&nbsp; Other times, and this is also very common, a vendor or service provider is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With some of the recent breaches of restaurant chains, I&rsquo;ve got to think that many of them were related to poor remote access practices. I say this because in all of my years of consulting, I have found that very weak controls around the remote a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}