Is remote desktop connection safe? (1 Viewer)

[Big John2]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mind helping me out with a quick question. My job allows me to work from home using my personal computer with a program called Remote Desktop. Wondering:

1) Is it safe to do this on my home computer?

2) Will they be able to see any of my computers drives or files? Or is my computer secure?

3) Will they be able to see anything connected to my home network?

Appreciate any help or advice you can provide!

 

[Your Mother's Twin Sister]

Yes, they can see you watching pr0n.

 

[Abraham]

Is it browser based or an app on the machine itself?

 

[hagmania]

The spam is getting cleverer.

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

This reminds me of 15-year-old me, in 1994, after my parents first got AOL.

I called tech support to ask how to clear Internet history, because I didn't want my parents to see...uhhh...what Christmas ideas I was researching for them. In July.

 

[fred_1_15301]

Yes, they can see you watching pr0n.

 

[fred_1_15301]

This reminds me of 15-year-old me, in 1994, after my parents first got AOL.

I called tech support to ask how to clear Internet history, because I didn't want my parents to see...uhhh...what Christmas ideas I was researching for them. In July.

I can imagine the tech support person laughing their ### off with that call.

 

[captain_amazing]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mind helping me out with a quick question. My job allows me to work from home using my personal computer with a program called Remote Desktop. Wondering:

1) Is it safe to do this on my home computer?

2) Will they be able to see any of my computers drives or files? Or is my computer secure?

3) Will they be able to see anything connected to my home network?

Appreciate any help or advice you can provide!

1. Yes, as long as they have ther certificates properly configured. Of course, if you work at Sony, then all bets are off.2. No

3. No

HTH - Merry Christmas!

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

This reminds me of 15-year-old me, in 1994, after my parents first got AOL.

I called tech support to ask how to clear Internet history, because I didn't want my parents to see...uhhh...what Christmas ideas I was researching for them. In July.

I can imagine the tech support person laughing their ### off with that call.

Oh, I'm sure of it.

 

[The Commish]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mind helping me out with a quick question. My job allows me to work from home using my personal computer with a program called Remote Desktop. Wondering:

1) Is it safe to do this on my home computer?

2) Will they be able to see any of my computers drives or files? Or is my computer secure?

3) Will they be able to see anything connected to my home network?

Appreciate any help or advice you can provide!

Answer to all this (except #3) is "it depends".

For three, it's typically no. For the others it's typically yes. I'm surprised they'd let you use your personal computer to connect though. With apps like this there's essentially a private network (of sorts) established over the internet between your work network and home. Security is as safe as they set up though.

 

[Wildcat]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mind helping me out with a quick question. My job allows me to work from home using my personal computer with a program called Remote Desktop. Wondering:

1) Is it safe to do this on my home computer?

2) Will they be able to see any of my computers drives or files? Or is my computer secure?

3) Will they be able to see anything connected to my home network?

Appreciate any help or advice you can provide!

Answer to all this (except #3) is "it depends".For three, it's typically no. For the others it's typically yes. I'm surprised they'd let you use your personal computer to connect though. With apps like this there's essentially a private network (of sorts) established over the internet between your work network and home. Security is as safe as they set up though.

This isn't accurate. Remote Desktop doesn't establish a VPN at all. It's essentially sending screen shots of the computer you are remote viewing. See captain_amazings response. What he wrote was accuate.

 

[Hawks64]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mind helping me out with a quick question. My job allows me to work from home using my personal computer with a program called Remote Desktop. Wondering:

1) Is it safe to do this on my home computer?

2) Will they be able to see any of my computers drives or files? Or is my computer secure?

3) Will they be able to see anything connected to my home network?

Appreciate any help or advice you can provide!

Answer to all this (except #3) is "it depends".For three, it's typically no. For the others it's typically yes. I'm surprised they'd let you use your personal computer to connect though. With apps like this there's essentially a private network (of sorts) established over the internet between your work network and home. Security is as safe as they set up though.

This isn't accurate. Remote Desktop doesn't establish a VPN at all. It's essentially sending screen shots of the computer you are remote viewing. See captain_amazings response. What he wrote was accuate.

Actually it's not. An admin logged onto the box can see drives and devices mapped via sessions. RDP is a horribly insecure way to connect to ANY remote network unless a VPN needs to be established first.

 

[Wildcat]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mind helping me out with a quick question. My job allows me to work from home using my personal computer with a program called Remote Desktop. Wondering:

1) Is it safe to do this on my home computer?

2) Will they be able to see any of my computers drives or files? Or is my computer secure?

3) Will they be able to see anything connected to my home network?

Appreciate any help or advice you can provide!

Answer to all this (except #3) is "it depends".For three, it's typically no. For the others it's typically yes. I'm surprised they'd let you use your personal computer to connect though. With apps like this there's essentially a private network (of sorts) established over the internet between your work network and home. Security is as safe as they set up though.

This isn't accurate. Remote Desktop doesn't establish a VPN at all. It's essentially sending screen shots of the computer you are remote viewing. See captain_amazings response. What he wrote was accuate.

Actually it's not. An admin logged onto the box can see drives and devices mapped via sessions. RDP is a horribly insecure way to connect to ANY remote network unless a VPN needs to be established first.

That's only if the network admin has enabled local resources and I don't know any respectable one that would. It's not horribly insecure if you do it correctly

 

[Hawks64]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mind helping me out with a quick question. My job allows me to work from home using my personal computer with a program called Remote Desktop. Wondering:

1) Is it safe to do this on my home computer?

2) Will they be able to see any of my computers drives or files? Or is my computer secure?

3) Will they be able to see anything connected to my home network?

Appreciate any help or advice you can provide!

Answer to all this (except #3) is "it depends".For three, it's typically no. For the others it's typically yes. I'm surprised they'd let you use your personal computer to connect though. With apps like this there's essentially a private network (of sorts) established over the internet between your work network and home. Security is as safe as they set up though.

This isn't accurate. Remote Desktop doesn't establish a VPN at all. It's essentially sending screen shots of the computer you are remote viewing. See captain_amazings response. What he wrote was accuate.

Actually it's not. An admin logged onto the box can see drives and devices mapped via sessions. RDP is a horribly insecure way to connect to ANY remote network unless a VPN needs to be established first.

That's only if the network admin has enabled local resources and I don't know any respectable one that would. It's not horribly insecure if you do it correctly

Anytime you are NAT'ing into your internal network on Windows box without any proxy or actual authentication it is. It's cheap but you get what you pay for. Citrix and VPNs are around for a reason.

 

[Wildcat]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mind helping me out with a quick question. My job allows me to work from home using my personal computer with a program called Remote Desktop. Wondering:

1) Is it safe to do this on my home computer?

2) Will they be able to see any of my computers drives or files? Or is my computer secure?

3) Will they be able to see anything connected to my home network?

Appreciate any help or advice you can provide!

Answer to all this (except #3) is "it depends".For three, it's typically no. For the others it's typically yes. I'm surprised they'd let you use your personal computer to connect though. With apps like this there's essentially a private network (of sorts) established over the internet between your work network and home. Security is as safe as they set up though.

This isn't accurate. Remote Desktop doesn't establish a VPN at all. It's essentially sending screen shots of the computer you are remote viewing. See captain_amazings response. What he wrote was accuate.

Actually it's not. An admin logged onto the box can see drives and devices mapped via sessions. RDP is a horribly insecure way to connect to ANY remote network unless a VPN needs to be established first.

That's only if the network admin has enabled local resources and I don't know any respectable one that would. It's not horribly insecure if you do it correctly

Anytime you are NAT'ing into your internal network on Windows box without any proxy or actual authentication it is. It's cheap but you get what you pay for. Citrix and VPNs are around for a reason.

What do you mean no actual authentication? There is network level authentication built into RDP

 

[Hawks64]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mind helping me out with a quick question. My job allows me to work from home using my personal computer with a program called Remote Desktop. Wondering:

1) Is it safe to do this on my home computer?

2) Will they be able to see any of my computers drives or files? Or is my computer secure?

3) Will they be able to see anything connected to my home network?

Appreciate any help or advice you can provide!

Answer to all this (except #3) is "it depends".For three, it's typically no. For the others it's typically yes. I'm surprised they'd let you use your personal computer to connect though. With apps like this there's essentially a private network (of sorts) established over the internet between your work network and home. Security is as safe as they set up though.

This isn't accurate. Remote Desktop doesn't establish a VPN at all. It's essentially sending screen shots of the computer you are remote viewing. See captain_amazings response. What he wrote was accuate.

Actually it's not. An admin logged onto the box can see drives and devices mapped via sessions. RDP is a horribly insecure way to connect to ANY remote network unless a VPN needs to be established first.

That's only if the network admin has enabled local resources and I don't know any respectable one that would. It's not horribly insecure if you do it correctly

Anytime you are NAT'ing into your internal network on Windows box without any proxy or actual authentication it is. It's cheap but you get what you pay for. Citrix and VPNs are around for a reason.

What do you mean no actual authentication? There is network level authentication built into RDP

Onto a Window box on the internal network. Sorry I want my authentication proxied to AD via LDAP on a secure hardened box ie ASA, SA, NetScaler, F5, etc.

 

[Wildcat]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mind helping me out with a quick question. My job allows me to work from home using my personal computer with a program called Remote Desktop. Wondering:

1) Is it safe to do this on my home computer?

2) Will they be able to see any of my computers drives or files? Or is my computer secure?

3) Will they be able to see anything connected to my home network?

Appreciate any help or advice you can provide!

Answer to all this (except #3) is "it depends".For three, it's typically no. For the others it's typically yes. I'm surprised they'd let you use your personal computer to connect though. With apps like this there's essentially a private network (of sorts) established over the internet between your work network and home. Security is as safe as they set up though.

This isn't accurate. Remote Desktop doesn't establish a VPN at all. It's essentially sending screen shots of the computer you are remote viewing. See captain_amazings response. What he wrote was accuate.

Actually it's not. An admin logged onto the box can see drives and devices mapped via sessions. RDP is a horribly insecure way to connect to ANY remote network unless a VPN needs to be established first.

That's only if the network admin has enabled local resources and I don't know any respectable one that would. It's not horribly insecure if you do it correctly

Anytime you are NAT'ing into your internal network on Windows box without any proxy or actual authentication it is. It's cheap but you get what you pay for. Citrix and VPNs are around for a reason.

What do you mean no actual authentication? There is network level authentication built into RDP

Onto a Window box on the internal network. Sorry I want my authentication proxied to AD via LDAP on a secure hardened box ie ASA, SA, NetScaler, F5, etc.

Agreed but none of this has to do with the concerns in the OP. He was concerned about his own computers security not the remote

 

[Hawks64]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mind helping me out with a quick question. My job allows me to work from home using my personal computer with a program called Remote Desktop. Wondering:

1) Is it safe to do this on my home computer?

2) Will they be able to see any of my computers drives or files? Or is my computer secure?

3) Will they be able to see anything connected to my home network?

Appreciate any help or advice you can provide!

Answer to all this (except #3) is "it depends".For three, it's typically no. For the others it's typically yes. I'm surprised they'd let you use your personal computer to connect though. With apps like this there's essentially a private network (of sorts) established over the internet between your work network and home. Security is as safe as they set up though.

This isn't accurate. Remote Desktop doesn't establish a VPN at all. It's essentially sending screen shots of the computer you are remote viewing. See captain_amazings response. What he wrote was accuate.

Actually it's not. An admin logged onto the box can see drives and devices mapped via sessions. RDP is a horribly insecure way to connect to ANY remote network unless a VPN needs to be established first.

That's only if the network admin has enabled local resources and I don't know any respectable one that would. It's not horribly insecure if you do it correctly

Anytime you are NAT'ing into your internal network on Windows box without any proxy or actual authentication it is. It's cheap but you get what you pay for. Citrix and VPNs are around for a reason.

What do you mean no actual authentication? There is network level authentication built into RDP

Onto a Window box on the internal network. Sorry I want my authentication proxied to AD via LDAP on a secure hardened box ie ASA, SA, NetScaler, F5, etc.

Agreed but none of this has to do with the concerns in the OP. He was concerned about his own computers security not the remote

So logging into a remote network that has poor security isn't a risk to the security on his machine if the remote network has potentially been compromised? Sorry, pointing out the potential risks, and I feel any network that has RDP enabled in bound without VPN is a risk I wouldn't take on my own machines.

 

[Wildcat]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mind helping me out with a quick question. My job allows me to work from home using my personal computer with a program called Remote Desktop. Wondering:

1) Is it safe to do this on my home computer?

2) Will they be able to see any of my computers drives or files? Or is my computer secure?

3) Will they be able to see anything connected to my home network?

Appreciate any help or advice you can provide!

Answer to all this (except #3) is "it depends".For three, it's typically no. For the others it's typically yes. I'm surprised they'd let you use your personal computer to connect though. With apps like this there's essentially a private network (of sorts) established over the internet between your work network and home. Security is as safe as they set up though.

This isn't accurate. Remote Desktop doesn't establish a VPN at all. It's essentially sending screen shots of the computer you are remote viewing. See captain_amazings response. What he wrote was accuate.

Actually it's not. An admin logged onto the box can see drives and devices mapped via sessions. RDP is a horribly insecure way to connect to ANY remote network unless a VPN needs to be established first.

That's only if the network admin has enabled local resources and I don't know any respectable one that would. It's not horribly insecure if you do it correctly

Anytime you are NAT'ing into your internal network on Windows box without any proxy or actual authentication it is. It's cheap but you get what you pay for. Citrix and VPNs are around for a reason.

What do you mean no actual authentication? There is network level authentication built into RDP

Onto a Window box on the internal network. Sorry I want my authentication proxied to AD via LDAP on a secure hardened box ie ASA, SA, NetScaler, F5, etc.

Agreed but none of this has to do with the concerns in the OP. He was concerned about his own computers security not the remote

So logging into a remote network that has poor security isn't a risk to the security on his machine if the remote network has potentially been compromised? Sorry, pointing out the potential risks, and I feel any network that has RDP enabled in bound without VPN is a risk I wouldn't take on my own machines.

We don't at our company either. We only allow via VPN. We are on the same page here. I'm just answering the OPs questions. He was concerned about his own conputer. What you are bringing up is more related to the security of the remote computer. There is little risk on his home computer.

 

[Slapdash]

On a semi-related note, how secure is using the "Good" application on your cell to access work outlook/files? Wondering the level of insight this would give my company into other activity on my phone (photos, texts, and web browsing). Commish, not sure if y'all use it down the street.

 

[Hawks64]

On a semi-related note, how secure is using the "Good" application on your cell to access work outlook/files? Wondering the level of insight this would give my company into other activity on my phone (photos, texts, and web browsing). Commish, not sure if y'all use it down the street.

Good email won't offer any insight to your mobile device. The only way to gain insight is using a Mobile Device Management solution and even that really only has the ability to monitor what's installed and if the device is rooted or jailbroken. Not what websites you visit or what files you access.

 

[The Commish]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Mind helping me out with a quick question. My job allows me to work from home using my personal computer with a program called Remote Desktop. Wondering:

1) Is it safe to do this on my home computer?

2) Will they be able to see any of my computers drives or files? Or is my computer secure?

3) Will they be able to see anything connected to my home network?

Appreciate any help or advice you can provide!

Answer to all this (except #3) is "it depends".For three, it's typically no. For the others it's typically yes. I'm surprised they'd let you use your personal computer to connect though. With apps like this there's essentially a private network (of sorts) established over the internet between your work network and home. Security is as safe as they set up though.

This isn't accurate. Remote Desktop doesn't establish a VPN at all. It's essentially sending screen shots of the computer you are remote viewing. See captain_amazings response. What he wrote was accuate.

I glossed over the fact that it was Remote Desktop for whatever reason. This is a crappy way to do this sort of thing. Securing your home PC is on you in this case.

 

[Slapdash]

On a semi-related note, how secure is using the "Good" application on your cell to access work outlook/files? Wondering the level of insight this would give my company into other activity on my phone (photos, texts, and web browsing). Commish, not sure if y'all use it down the street.

Good email won't offer any insight to your mobile device. The only way to gain insight is using a Mobile Device Management solution and even that really only has the ability to monitor what's installed and if the device is rooted or jailbroken. Not what websites you visit or what files you access.

Good to know, thank you. Not very trusting...can't hold out on this much longer.