Your advice re secure access to remote datacenter

Aug 25, 2008 0 Replies
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Dear All,



I am setting up the IT infrastructure of a small company (staff of 10 in the UK and Japan). We are in need of a remote data center with a secure access (mostly for confidential file sharing). We would like to outsource as many things as possible and obtain a simple, yet secure, IT solution.



Please note, I am IT savvy, but I'm no IT professional, and I am therefore looking for relatively basic advices and guidelines. For now, I would go with the following ... any comment?


- datacenter: : a dedicated server such as provided by

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: a physical firewall : Windows Server 2003



- secure access: : Windows VPN client/server solution (company staff have all Vista x86 or x64)



Regarding VPN authentication: I would prefer to use password-based authentication with strong password policies rather than security token cards. What options do I have left? Is Windows VPN client/server a good option? Are MSCHAP2 or EAP difficult to implement? Are there better (and cheaper) VPN client/server solutions available?



That's a lot of questions for one post... but any help would be much appreciated,



Thanks,



Olivier


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