Monks,

I have developed a perl GUI application for use within my corporate network. This application makes DBI connections to our MS SQL Server, but now I am realizing that I am going to have to make this app available to various 3rd parties who would run it from outside of our network (and be accessing sensitive financial data).

I'm sure that it's possible to poke a hole in our firewall and change the connect string... but somehow that seems like a horrible idea. I thought about wrapping each of the queries into SOAP calls, but that seems overly rigid... Maybe something with SOAP and HTTPS (which I have never done, but assume is possible) that would accept queries and return the results?

Basically, I really have no idea as to the best way to handle this situation. I'd love to be able to continue to handle the database activity in a DBI-ish manner, but not at the expense of a respectable amount of security for our data and our servers.

Absorbing,

-ariel2

In reply to Remote apps and SQL Server Security by ariel2

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