[dba-SQLServer] SQL Server security

Jim,

Are you using OpenVM?

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 9/18/2011 2:33 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> No not really...Your address that you are using for your principal connect
> may be protected but Himachi but it is not like a full VPN connection which
> protects all ports in and out. Check out OpenVPN at: http://openvpn.net/ and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVPN
>
> Jim
>
>
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> Subject: [dba-SQLServer] SQL Server security
>
> I see logs of references to people probing ports looking for SQL Server
> ports (and mysql as well I
> assume).
>
> If I come in through a Hamachi VPN then I do not directly expose the port to
> the outside world
> correct?  IOW the hacker would need to belong to my VPN network in order to
> directly get to the open
> port?
>