Benjamin Burke

The purpose of this series is to pick a subset of the “Critical Asset” class of facilities/devices and to dig in on the attached regulatory framework(s) with a direct focus on the elements of the framework related to cybersecurity.

Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is widely used by system administrators trying to provide remote operators access. In a shocking oversight this connection does not use strong encryption by default. This post will walk through the steps required to force TLS encryption on all RDP connections.