Only have the modem turned on or connected to the phone lines when this person is going to call in. Then, have it do a callback.
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Modem Security I think I've got my internet connection security coming together, but I'm worried about a potential back door. I have one worker who absolutely has to have a modem to contact the legacy system our billing service uses. What bothers me is that someone might get clever and use a war dialer to find this number and try and hack their way around my secure gateway. I'd like to make this more difficult or at least have some way to contain the damage. Does anyone have any ideas? I thought of possibly putting a linux box configured as a firewall between her and the rest of the network, but I'd have to have alot of ports open to allow all the services she'll need so I don't know if that would even help much.
