Securing remote access to the network
No networking segmentation planning would be complete without considering the security aspects of remote access to your corporate network. Even if your company does not have employees that work from home, chances are that at some point, an employee will be traveling and will need remote access to the company's resources. If this is the case, you need to consider not only your segmentation plan, but also a network access control system that can evaluate the remote system prior to allowing access to the company's network; this evaluation includes verifying the following details:
- That the remote system has the latest patches
- That the remote system has antivirus enabled
- That the remote system has a personal firewall enabled
- That the remote system is compliant with mandate security policies
The following diagram shows an example of a network access control (NAC) system:
In this scenario, the NAC is responsible not only for validating the current health state of...
