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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just released an update of their draft recommendations on Enterprise Telework and Remote Access Security (PDF). The document provides a good backgrounder for anybody responsible for managing remote access in their organization. Interestingly the document is not too keen on remote desktop as a remote access method.

“remote desktop access solutions should only be used for exceptional cases after a careful analysis of the security risks. The other types of remote access solutions described in this section offer superior security capabilities”

I must admit that I would agree with this assessment. For a SOHO environment remote desktop can be an excellent choice but where there is a need to have any level of monitoring and control, then remote desktop can create more problems than it solves.