VPN - is it really secured without FW?

[kuzkuz]

Hey,
General question:
if I have a VPn connection between two offices,
on one side I have a big secured network,
on the other end I am only opening communication in the router for the VPN server on the other side - without any FW, is this secured enough?
can hackers hget through my router this way?

TANX

 

[markku]

This is the preferred method of making secure network.

If you use VPN-boxes you are able to to limit the users only to use the resources provided by the main office via tunnel, e.g. DNS, WINS, PDC, web-proxy and mail services.

Using IPSec, 3DES and combined firewall/VPN-boxes like Linksys or SonicWALL makes your network as secure as it can be.

Sleep in peace.

 

[kuzkuz]

Hi,
but if it's all in the router, with no external VPN box,
is it still secure?

 

[markku]

To be exact:
combined router/firewall/VPN-boxes

Yes, they are safe.