[Cialug] Connect Two Independent Sites

[Brett Neese]

VPN is also a good option, and more secure than IP whitelisting. My
security friends highly recommend https://www.wireguard.com/.

Brett Neese
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On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 9:58 AM Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> I would tend towards an API with IP whitelisting.  It is the simplest to
> reason about.
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 9:49 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have an architectural type question for y'all.
> >
> > There is a company developing a piece of software that will connect with
> > our own internal systems. Their web app needs to pull data from an
> > application we have. Our application is not (currently) exposed to the
> > public. How would you suggest allowing them to connect?
> >
> > Options I've thought of:
> >
> > * Our app exposes a public API that they tug on
> > * We set up a proxy server between the two
> > * We set up a VPN tunnel of some sort between their servers and ours, at
> > the network level or at the server level
> > * We have somebody there and somebody here sitting at keyboards talking
> on
> > the phone to each other and transmitting data, and just hope that scales
> >
> > We're reluctant to expose our test and qa systems to the internet. But
> > maybe that's a suck-it-up-and-put-on-your-big-boy-pants kind of thing. I
> > don't know.
> >
> > Any thoughts on best practice here?
> >
> > --
> > Todd
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