
In fact, much easier way: get rid of the firewall on your company, open all ports you need for your mails etc on the routers and you can reach the company directly without any VPN needed. Remember, it is not your flash stick connecting to your base, it is the hotel in fact, even if the client software is placed on the flash. During 15 mins, which you were connected and did just read one small text mail, the two networks can exchange virtually anything and you have no idea what it was. It does not matter what you send over the VPN, but it might be more important what does the hotel computer send and receive during that session over the VPN from your home base network. You are simply connecting the hotel and your company network together. What Jimbo tried to tell you, it does not matter what you are doing during the VPN connection to your home base. No way that somebody would just use settings and keyset and run the tunel from any terminal in the world. People who need real access to the company network, did get it, even on their fancy toy mobile phones, but this was done so, that only those particular devices (=computers) had the access, (testing even for mac in few ways to avoid mac faking etc.), not 'any computer' just with similar settings.įor those who wanted just mails, either the mails were copied directly to a reliable push mail service or simply copied to an external pop/imap account with at least ssl communication and here everybody could read mails, answer them and so on.
