The protocol used to access your windows desktop remotely (RDP) has been blocked at the campus border as a result of a sustained cyberattack that was starting to compromise some machines on campus.
In order to protect our campus assets, and minimize the disruption caused by these attacks, IT has had no choice but to block the protocol at the campus router, which means users will be unable to connect to their campus desktops directly; instead users are advised to connect to campus through our virtual private network (VPN), accessible through vpn.mtu.edu.
Please contact User Services (487-1111, it-help@mtu.edu) if you need help using our VPN system.
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September 12th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Is this a temporary or permanent solution? Remote desktop connection has been quite excellent working tool while off campus and at least in the past, VPN has been much more cumbersome, really limiting productivity (or maybe I wasn’t trained to use it right). I understand blocking remote access for now to minimize the risks, but if it is widely used, secure tool, so I would expect there is a way to make it secure for Tech as well in longer term….or is it simply risky no matter what you do?