SunFirewall Remote Desktop Protection

Remote desktop protection 101: what is a brute force attack?

One of the most easily operated, yet most effective means hackers use is trying to crack your remote desktop username and password, either manually, or using a program that tries all the possible combinations the authorized user could have come up with. This seemingly simplistic practice is called a brute force attack, and since statistics say it has been working too well, the first step towards desktop protection is nipping these attempts in the bud. Using SUN FIREWALL, you can allow the user certain numbers of failed attempts (default set at 3 ,but changeable settings) to type in the incorrect username and password, but when they try one too many times, (default set at three ), sun firewall rules that user a potential hacker and block their IP address. This method can be used for workgroup systems as well as systems worked with as an active directory.

Why is "black countries" a must-have RDP protection tool?

Leaving your remote desktop port accessible to IPs from all countries can leave it extremely vulnerable to cyber-attacks, tackling which will take an enormous toll on the performance capacity of your entire cyber system. In order to relieve such a burden you will have to incur great costs to enhance your system to fight more oncoming attacks. SUN FIREWALL, provides you with real-time statistics of failed attempted made by IPs, sorted out by the country, along with other variants in a multivariate event log, which you can easily analyze into recognizing which countries are posing the biggest number of threats; and then enables you to blacklist the whole country's IP s from trying to log in, trough the "black countries" feature. This way not only you can slow down the traffic your server is receiving and boost performance, you get to eliminate a big source of threat, both remarkable leaps towards remote desktop protection.

Time-based OTP, another big step in remote desktop protection

One of the things you can do to compromise your RDP protection and make a hacker's job easier to crack your password, is to use a constant one, since they will have all the time in the world to make as many attempts as it takes through different IPs to finally get it right. But if you use a one-time password, which is only valid for a short period of time, you make their window of opportunity considerably smaller, and remarkably lower the risk of exposing your invaluable data to RDP attacks. SUN FIREWALL provides you with an OTP feature, you can set the validity time of which, any number of minutes you see fit, which is a simple, yet great step towards a tighter remote desktop security.

What if we can single out "suspected users" for you?

All the convenience remote desktop has brought to the cyber world, comes with the price of attracting a usually persistent crowd of thieving hackers, who can be quite crafty in trying to hide their tracks. SUN FIREWALL has come up with a number of different algorithms to track down suspicious activity and identify suspected users, so you can take due action to block them, taking your remote desktop protection one step further. One of the algorithms we have devised, for example, reports the countries an IP tries to log in from, and if a certain IP tries to log in from two different countries within a specific time frame, then they are reported as suspected users in a separate log, for you to be alert about.

How big of an asset is "Remote desktop port changeability"?

As you may know the default port number of remote desktop is 3389, which is quite an unsecure port, as potential hackers can easily trace it by scanning users' systems, and proceed to launch their attacks trough an authorized user's port. An easy yet extremely helpful feature SUNFIREWALL offers in way of boosting your remote desktop protection is rectifying this particular threat by enabling you to manually change that number through the setting menu, and throw cyber attackers off track from the very get-go.