{"id":207,"date":"2019-10-09T16:37:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2019-11-04T16:54:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T16:54:40","slug":"intel-vpro-good-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Intel vPro; Good &#038; Bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>vPro is a technology that allows servers or laptops to be powered on or off remotely, allows boot media to be attached so a OS can be loaded remotely, an administrator can see the boot process and change the bios settings remotely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a good idea as it allows admintrators to do more remotely and spend less time traveling, and get problems fixed faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the best implementation as it uses the VNC protocol which has had authentication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.symantec.com\/security_response\/attacksignatures\/detail.jsp?asid=24667\">bypass <\/a>problems in the past and limits passwords to 8 characters.  Intel had to make some compromises and chose VNC as it was already established and they needed something that would work on inexpensive hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Products like TeamViewer can provide part of this funtionality; remote control works well, supports reverse connections through firewalls and it keeps a nice inventory of remote devices.  But Teamviewer runs on top of the OS so you can&#8217;t view a Bluescreen, load an OS or access the BIOS.  I expect companies focused on easy-to-use solutions to opt for this as it solves some inventory and visibility problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VPro provides more functionality but you need to provide your own routing, usually supplied by VPN and DHCP\/DNS but there are still holes around road warriors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>vPro is a technology that allows servers or laptops to be powered on or off remotely, allows boot media to be attached so a OS can be loaded remotely, an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-smb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}