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Support Staff changed Remote Access on our firewall

Hello,

this is a question to the Sophos Support members here in the forums.

Today I noticed, that a user "support", that is probably from Sophos, logged in with remote access to our firewall.This user changed the existing remote access settings and extended it for 2 weeks without having me notified.

The original RA-ID has been communicated by me to the case owner. This has been one week ago and RA would have expired tomorrow.

I would not really call this an unauthorized access and manipulation but in fact it is. How can it be, that I grant you 1 week access and without letting me know, you use it to extend this to 3 weeks? What if unauthorized usage happens in that time? Who is responsible then? Is this a regular procedure of Sophos as security company?

Lets just exclude here, that there has again almost been a month of inactivity on the case - or at least this looks to me like this.

See here: logon, change the remote acccess setting, and then gone, bye.



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  • I'd have to agree with your view here.  Although I understand that sometimes a Support engineer will need more time, it should be up to us if we want to extend access.  Or even at a minimum be notified if the support engineer needs more time.  Personally I would have raised this up with the Support engineer's manager as I don't think this is standard from my experience with Support.

  • FormerMember
    0 FormerMember

    Hi ,

    Sincerest apologies for this! Sending you a PM to gather more details and follow up on this issue.
    Thanks,
  • Received a call from support management and we spoke about the issue. This should'nt have happened but was meant best by the tech just to not bother me an other time to extend remote access. It was also good to hear some words about reorganisation thats going on at Sophos. Surely not an easy task for everyone involved.

    For me this is resolved.

    Thank you for your effords in raising this internally.