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Internet access to internal SQL server (not in DMZ)
I have a request to open TCP port 1433 on our firewall to allow a company to query a table on our SQL server as part of a service they have been contracted to provide. The SQL server is in our serve...
bake13
Microsoft
MicrosoftHi garryholmberg --
Your intuition is correct in that opening 1433 to the internet from within your internal vlan is incurring risk. Have you considered replicating the database to a system in the DMZ and providing the read-only access to that copy of the database? Take care.