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RSA SecurID appliance network placement

A customer has purchased dual RSA SecurID Appliance 130's, which will be used to authenticate remote users via hard and soft tokens. I'm looking for design recommendations on where the RSA appliances should be positioned - specifically, should they be in the network DMZ w/ public IP addresses, hidden behind a static NAT firewall, or something else altogether?

Pretty basic/simple question (I trust), and supporting documentation is always helpful.

Thank you!
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This really depends on how you are wanting to use the device.

Is it for authentication of web based access, internal, or remote via VPN? Maybe all the above.

I have messed around with a 130, and the setup and config was very simple and straight forward.  I think that RSA broke it down to 6 or 8 steps.

Good info on the device its self and some related documentation from a research project.
http://www.rsa.com/products/securid/sb/10695_SIDTFA_SB_0210.pdf

Nice little demo with some good links to other info.
http://www.rsa.com/experience/sidinaction/window.html

Hope this helps.

TLH
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Thanks for your input - let me just verify one thing (after reading into this a bit more).

I think the solution requires an authentication agent of some sort that is publicly accessible (hence, likely in the DMZ), but then this agent passes credentials (using a variety of different methods) to the authentication manager process, which is provided by the SecurID appliance.

I just want to verify that the appliance itself does NOT have to be in the DMZ alongside the authentication agent, as long as the agent has a route (and whatever firewall port(s) open) to get there.

It seems obvious that this would work, but I just wanted to confirm.  I'm pretty new to the RSA components.
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I had an exactly similar requirement. I am setting up the RSA SecurID appliance, and it requires a FQDN and an IP that is publicly accessible and available. In this case, wouldn't it be appropriate to set it up under DMZ segment, get Users authenticated and then provide them access to a separate LAN subnet?>