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Windows mapped drive communications - Secure?
In a Win 7, 2008 R2 file server, and 2012 DC environment.
Scenario, Create a share on a corporate file server and allow a remote office to create a mapped drive to the share so they can share files with the corporate office.
What is the nature of the communication when the remote office drops a file in the remote drive? Is the communications to the corporate office encrypted? The data is not ultra secret, but could be somewhat sensitive. I'm just curious what it would look like on the wire and if anyone is listening could anything be read.
Scenario, Create a share on a corporate file server and allow a remote office to create a mapped drive to the share so they can share files with the corporate office.
What is the nature of the communication when the remote office drops a file in the remote drive? Is the communications to the corporate office encrypted? The data is not ultra secret, but could be somewhat sensitive. I'm just curious what it would look like on the wire and if anyone is listening could anything be read.
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How is the remote office connected to the server? Is it via an encrypted VPN?
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Not VPN. Remote office was somewhat misleading, this is a internal WAN so encryption on the wire by default is not happening.
So technically below SMB3 data is not encrypted, but sniffing on the wire and if someone were to drop a pdf or word doc, or simple text file in the folder, can anything worth while be captured?
So technically below SMB3 data is not encrypted, but sniffing on the wire and if someone were to drop a pdf or word doc, or simple text file in the folder, can anything worth while be captured?
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