Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Teleworker box vs VPN client?

Hi,

You can buy stuff like this

https://meraki.cisco.com/product/security-sd-wan/teleworker/z3/

I see the appeal in the sense that you can have a desk phone plugged in nice and easily however you can still do that with a VPN connection via client software too even if one of my colleagues is introducing more security risks than he is removing, but that's another story

You could in theory make a VPN over DDNS given ever changing customer IPs too, but that's not the norm. You can also allow a user's IP address to connect to your office using a phone you give them too via a client

Unless of course this is essentially just yet another firewall albeit in a satellite office so to speak. If so you can already tunnel from fw to fw

What's your preference and why? Am I missing something too?



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