Within this projects the students were responsible for analyzing different methods for remote access. By gaining remote access the students would then be able to maintain all networking equipment and services which includes: updating software, ensuring antivirus software is up to date, and ensuring that any technical problems are resolved efficiently. However, the students also learned that the cons to remote access which includes: allowing unwanted intruders, additional cost, and being inaccessible if the site is off-line. The students looked into using IPCop through the use of Road Warrior VPN or OpenVPN, Cryptzone AppGate Secutiry Server, Vyatta, and LogMeIn. While working with the not-for-profit, students also encountered some technical issues which included: eight hard drives to wipe for donation, lost access to shared drives, being unable to scan emails, drive seek failures, and drive failures. To resolve these issues the students used DBAN to wipe all of the data from the hard drives, remapped all of the share drives, reconfigured the scan and email settings in Outlook, and changed the CMOS to remove unnecessary floppy drives.
Student Team Members: Anthony Pham, Chris Nakfoor
