Communicating through firewall to update Operating System opens to threats. Stop Golden Goose Servers from Internet, VPN and Organization access when not required.

Updating software by direct access to the Internet opens to threats

Internal user may harvest sensitive information from Golden Goose Servers

If infected by a workstation or other server that has access it is one step closer to compromise.

Allow only local Ethernet connections or contain connections inside the Data Center. Most back-end servers do not need direct access to the Internet or the entire internal network and vice versa. Design, support and audit to ensure compliance regardless of firewall protections.

If a VPN is extended beyond intended users, anything accessible is vulnerable.  Limit Golden Goose Server from access by VPN users.

VPN users can open data center to virus threats.

Unauthorized VPN users don’t need a badge or physical access to gain access. A lost or stolen VPN Firewall could allow threats if VPN users allowed to access Golden Goose Servers. If VPN can’t access Golden Goose it is less vulnerable.

VPN users should not be able to access the Golden Goose by locking it down to restrict off data center communications.

Restrict VPN users and the Golden Goose Servers to a smaller more reasonable communications radius.  VPN users don’t need global access. And locking down communications radius ensures VPN users have no/limited access to Golden Goose servers and the entire Internet at the same time.

Authorized users know where the data is and its value. Making sure the back-end Golden Goose server is not reachable directly improves data security.

Ads and malware are spread through ISP session interception to deliver replacement ads. Design a limitation for Golden Goose servers to access VPN Clients.

ISP’s might scan clear-text data as it passes and know where your organization is vulnerable, and even if it is for marketing purposes such data in the wrong hands is threatening to the security of your data.

ISP’s have access to your systems and can eavesdrop on communications. Making sure your Golden Goose is not directly accessible is essential. Limiting the communications radius on the machine itself insulates from firewall mistakes.

Locking down a Golden Goose Server’s communications radius, regardless of firewall functions improves the security of Golden Goose Data. Keeping the Golden Goose off the radar of data gathering ISP’s makes it safer.

Locking down the Golden Goose back-end Server from any or limited international Internet access dramatically reduces the target opportunity.

Locking down Golden Goose Servers keeps honest competitors honest and the dishonest out of your data.

Locking down Golden Goose servers provides orders of magnitude additional security than only using firewalls.

Locking down the Golden Goose back-end server means its difficult to infect it or if it is infected by internal means, it simply cannot communicate to the Internet to connect to a nefarious harvesting host on the Internet.

Neutering the Golden Goose itself from communicating beyond its local segment, the Datacenter, VPN, ISP or distant Internet beyond your region, or nation/s keeps it safer from places where the Rule of Law makes it near impossible to protect, report or convict wrongdoers.