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web browsing in production environment - a journey through comfort and security Jul 06 2009 11:44AM info hitcon de (2 replies) RE: web browsing in production environment - a journey through comfort and security Jul 06 2009 07:32PM Marc Rivero López (mriverolopez gmail com) (1 replies) Antwort: RE: web browsing in production environment - a journey through comfort and security Jul 09 2009 12:35PM info hitcon de (1 replies) Re: RE: web browsing in production environment - a journey through comfort and security Jul 12 2009 07:08PM Jeremy Bennett (jeremy bennett gmail com) |
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> today we have a environment which is arranged as follows:
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> - a windows 2003 domain
> - a citrix terminal server farm ( 6 servers, 120 employees )
> - a astaro firewall appliance ( with web security - it uses its own proxy
> service (astaro engineered) and anti virus modules - clam & avira )
> - a squid proxy server (3.x) (it does authentication against domino ldap)
> with trend micro web security suite and squidguard for some url filtering
> (mainly pron) - the blacklists are updated once a day
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> * web browsing is only possible via the citrix sessions of the users ( no
> local access from desktop or from somewhere else). unfortunately we need to
> use internet explorer (7) because most of the sites, which users reach work
> only with IE :-(
> ( i already tried to migrate firefox without success )
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> * we limit the active content of websites via microsoft group policies.
> only websites which are registered as trusted sites in group policies can
> show its active content ( java, active x, javascript etc)
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> * we have a chain of proxy servers. (see list of environment).
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> so if a user start its internet explorer in it's citrix session, the IE
> passes its way through the proxy servers:
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> 1. checks if the website is a trusted site in group policy or not and
> starts active content or not
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> 2. squid proxy server (located in demilitarised zone) -> authentication
> against LDAP (and logs all requests with username, ip, etc.)
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> 3. Checks SquidGuard if website is on blacklist
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> 4. passes traffic to trend micro web security suite ( anti virus engine for
> http(s) and ftp )
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> 5. passes the traffic to the astaro (which is the parent proxy) which uses
> its own scanners (clam and avira)
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I don't know an answer to your question but I would suggest that
putting out this much information about your corporate network is not
a good idea.
Robin
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