Hi,
A vendor of ours wants to put a firewall inside my network rather than terminating a VPN tunnel on my firewall for the purpose of transferring data back and forth from the central office of the company to the satellite office located within my organization.
The vendor (a large national company) cites security risks and labor interchangeably as reasons for not working with my network engineers to either terminate the VPN tunnel on my firewall or set-up their firewall under our supervision and then let us change the password. For the latter suggestion they again cite security reasons. So I’m at an impasse.
At this point the question is not what other ways there are to do this as we’ve explored this and the solutions boil down to labor-intensive options (both in terms of set-up and mantainence ). My question is that it’s likely my boss is going to demand I do this.
I feel if this happens I don’t have a lot of options and may have to tender my resignation. Whether I leave or not, I am convinced that I should get this request signed and in writing, though the outcome of doing this (officially or not) is really grim for my network (I’m essentially then hostage to this outside company that has from the start treated my and my staff and our network as untrustworthy.)
Anyone out there been faced with similar challenges and what did you do?
Thanks.