![]() ![]() However, if the user controlling the desktop happens to be an adversary, he now has a very powerful tool at his disposal from which he can launch a multitude of attacks in the network. If the user at the other end is benign, these tools can enable a vast variety of helpful use cases. ![]() Such vulnerabilities do not make the remote access tools any more a threat vector than other software rather, what makes remote access tools a unique challenge is the potential for giving complete control of the desktop to another user. The question then is, when remote access tools enable so many valid use cases, which are especially relevant in this any device anywhere productivity-focused world, what is all this fuss about security issues? And if there indeed are security issues, don’t vendors address them, for example, Microsoft, Citrix and Amazon Web Services? Security issues with remote access toolsĪll kinds of software, including remote access tools, may have potential vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers. Workstations running in the public or private cloud have remote access software installed because by definition these workstations are running in the cloud, where users cannot physically access them.Quality testing team runs remote access tools on their lab workstations to perform quality assurance tests. ![]() A lab administrator runs remote access tools on desktops so that trainees can access these desktops remotely during their training.A user leaves the remote access tools running on the work desktop so that she can access the desktop to work from home or while traveling.IT support asks for permission to control a user’s desktop to troubleshoot an issue.Now the raison d'être of these remote access tools is not mainframe access, but to allow one user to control another user’s desktop. With these remote access tools, users could access their data and compute resources concurrently and without having to walk up to the mainframe room.Ĭommon remote access tools used today include Microsoft Remote Desktop, TeamViewer, Telnet, Citrix XenDesktop and VNC. Remote access tools were created to allow dumb terminals to remotely access centrally located mainframe computers. ![]()
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