[Info-vax] Casting IPsec before swine

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Richard Maher wrote:
>> "Steven Underwood" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
>> news:7UvBl.413$9t6.403 at newsfe10.iad...
>>> Well, I work in the insurance industry with a large (90-95% of our
>>> employees) phone bank, and as such are tied to their desks.  Our VMS system
>>> is primarily an end user of the data in the Oracle DB's on other platforms.
>>> Batch processing of that data and some home grown Cobol programs are 
>>> what is
>>> running.
>>
>> Just curious, but how are you securing the traffic from your desktops (or
>> specific applications on your desktops) to your servers at the moment? 
>> SSH?
>> HTTPS? Stunnel? "They're in the same building, so what"?
> 
> I worked in IT for many years and I don't think we EVER worried about 
> securing our internal traffic!  At McGraw-Hill we networked with about 
> 100 field offices and six "print centers" without using any encryption 
> that I was aware of.
> 
> Now SOME traffic requires encryption for reasons of security, 
> authentication, or both.  Most does not.

The view on LAN security has changed over the last 10 years.

ssh and sftp/ftps has replaced telnet and ftp.

Running all types of stuff over ssh has become more common.

Splitting LAN up in security is not unusual.

Etc.etc..

Arne