Re: Remote Access Security, 3rd Party Tool

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sam

I can think of 2. Centerfield Technology used to have a tool for this 
that was not too complicated to work with. It might be sufficient for 
your needs, I'm not sure. Take a look at www.centerfieldtechnology.com 
and look around - I worked there for a few years up to 2004, and I don't 
know what is there now.

The other is Powertech, I believe. This is much more comprehensive in 
its coverage - and maybe complexity as to setup - I have no experience 
doing that, so your mileage will very likely vary. I do have much 
respect for John Earl, who was the original creator (I believe) of 
Powertech. www.powertech.com got me to a page - they've been acquired, 
it appears, by the same group that now owns Help Systems and ASC and ???

HTH
Vern

On 12/2/2012 7:56 PM, Sam_L wrote:
> More of our non-IT employees are getting VPN access to our AS/400. Need
> to start controlling that access.
>
> Exit points are probably the only solution to handle ODBC, FTP, JDBC,
> SQL, etc access.  It seem to me that a 3rd party tool is something we
> should investigate, because there are an awful lot of exit points to
> cover by ourselves.
>
> If anyone is using a Remote Access Security Manager and feels free to
> provide the name and comment on the effectiveness, ease of use and
> support, it would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Sam
>
> In a former life, where I wasn't the responsible party, we installed a
> 3rd party tool that kept out the riff-raff--I can't recall the name, but
> it was extremely granular and thus quite complex to manage.  My research
> so far indicates that Powertech, Net IQ (was Pentasafe)and Enforcive
> (was BSafe) have products.