Reply to: Accessing ClientCo banned sites through my website

[bobspud]

SSH is your friend ! you can use local port fowarding into the tunnel to your home network. Works very effectively and will always get you marched off site if found out. So dont get caught.

SSH Tunnelling (Port Forwarding) — RZG

[doodab]

If it's possible, how would I approach it?

What you want is called a reverse proxy.

As others have pointed out you are taking a risk bypassing restrictions client co have placed on the use of their network. Personally I would rather bring my own internet access.

[pmeswani]

Probably because they have never heard of breach of internet policies being used to sack permies and walk contractors of site.

He is also obviously not aware that clients ban things like sports pages and facebook for a good reason i.e. permies wasting a lot of their time on it, or doing streaming from the sports pages.

It's a misconception that Webfiltering is only used to monitor what sites are being accessed. It is also used to monitor how much bandwidth is being used as well.... well, that is the case in some companies where I worked. (And I say this as someone who works in Information Security).

[SueEllen]

I am not quite getting how the user things bypassing client co security is acceptable.

Probably because they have never heard of breach of internet policies being used to sack permies and walk contractors of site.

He is also obviously not aware that clients ban things like sports pages and facebook for a good reason i.e. permies wasting a lot of their time on it, or doing streaming from the sports pages.

[Freamon]

If all you want to do is read the sports news at lunchtime, get a Kindle and subscribe to some newspapers. You can sync it with wifi before you leave in the morning, so no breach of the "no mobile/3g access on site" policy, and it's very obvious that it's for reading rather than anything that might attract attention from information security departments.

Or subscribe to RSS feeds on your smartphone and sync them in the morning before you leave, that works too. Unless they make you hand over your phone at the door (which some places do).

[northernladuk]

I am not quite getting how the user things bypassing client co security is acceptable. Just because you can bypass it it doesn't mean it is ok. The client doesn't want you viewing the sport pages.. period.. whatever method you use to get around this you are breaking client co policy. Is it worth it?

[Bunk]

Not everywhere allows 3G/mobiles to be used onsite

At the end of the day though, is it worth the bother of trying to get around their policies?

If they don't allow mobiles then you'd almost certainly be walked off site for using LogMeIn, assuming it wasn't blocked.

[cojak]

Not everywhere allows 3G/mobiles to be used onsite

At the end of the day though, is it worth the bother of trying to get around their policies?

If they're the sort of company to ban 3G/mobiles I certainly wouldn't try to get around their high(er) security firewalls and policies.

Their monitoring is usually sharper in that kind of envornment and you may find them prepared to do more than just walk you off the site...

[Graham]

Rather than trying to get around ClientCos Internet and security policies, why not get a 3G dongle and use your co's laptop or use your smart/iphone?


But yes, logmein would also work...

Not everywhere allows 3G/mobiles to be used onsite

At the end of the day though, is it worth the bother of trying to get around their policies?

[Pondlife]

Rather than trying to get around ClientCos Internet and security policies, why not get a 3G dongle and use your co's laptop or use your smart/iphone?


But yes, logmein would also work...

[Sysman]

I have set up my home system with LogMeIn so that I can access it from work. While I did it so that I can set off software builds and the like, I can browse from it and all the rest too.

But your clientco is likely to be monitoring your logs. Spend too much time or clock up too much traffic with your own website and you might find that getting blocked.

[TheFaQQer]

Aside from the debate about whether you should really be doing this.....

Try this.

[Bunk]

I have my own domain / website etc.

Is there a way to run a search through my site that returns data to my ClientCo browser without hitting their firewall>

For instance, I can't access BBC Sport pages at ClientCo, but I can access my own website. I have this image of setting up some sort of PCAnywhere through my domain so I can run searches using my firewall settings and not ClientCO's, but I don't know if it's possible.

If it's possible, how would I approach it?

Thanks in advance

I use LogMeIn to do stuff like that through my home machine. Obviously it helps if logmein.com isn't blocked by Clientco though

[Joeman]

LogMeIn gets past most clientco firewalls, remote onto your home PC...

[SimonMac]

I have my own domain / website etc.

Is there a way to run a search through my site that returns data to my ClientCo browser without hitting their firewall>

For instance, I can't access BBC Sport pages at ClientCo, but I can access my own website. I have this image of setting up some sort of PCAnywhere through my domain so I can run searches using my firewall settings and not ClientCO's, but I don't know if it's possible.

If it's possible, how would I approach it?

Thanks in advance

I would suggest it is very difficult depending on the proxy product they are using as all traffic via your site will still be routed through there firewall/proxy server once returned from your site