[mdlug] linux firewall/vpn package like monowall

[Dan Pritts]

thanks for the tips, Kevin.  

I know he's found someone like secure-24, not sure if it's them.  I'll make sure to pass the name along.  

On May 14, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Kevin O'Brien wrote:

> Dan, have you looked at Secure-24? My wife works there (fuil
> disclosure) but they handle health business and HIPAA compliance.
> 
> http://www.secure-24.com/
> 
> As to using to VMs, my initial take is that seems unnecessarily
> complicated. As a project manager in this industry, I have found that
> the VPN is the key in transit. And at either end you need appropriate
> security in the data centers. I set up an application in 2010 at the U
> of M Hospital that connected our system to a subsidiary of McKesson
> with servers in Alpharetta, GA. We were HIPAA compliant once I got the
> VPN set up.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Dan Pritts <danno at umich.edu> wrote:
>>>> one suggestion he got was to have a pair of VMs, one running the app
>>>> and another running as a dedicated firewall/VPN.
>>> 
>>> Linode offers some kind of private network / back-end.  I've never used
>>> it.  That can be used for database replaction, building fail-over
>>> systems, etc....
>>> <http://blog.linode.com/2008/03/14/private-back-end-network-support/>
>> 
>> thanks for the tip.
>> 
>> doesn't really look appropriate for this situation, though.  open to all clients in a given data center.
>> 
>> danno
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