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andyet / teleport

Fork for the purpose of a consulting project October 2019. Privileged access management for elastic infrastructure.
https://gravitational.com/teleport
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How important is the term "bastion"? #8

Open one000mph opened 5 years ago

one000mph commented 5 years ago

I'm seeing the term "bastion" used to describe the proxy server in a few places throughout the docs. I think this is a term that will be unfamiliar to people who don't come from a security background (and it was to me until I looked it up). I can see how this term could be beneficial if a lot of users will understand it right away, but I don't know if that is the case and it was more confusing than helpful to me. Is this term is important enough to keep around? If not, the proxy server can be described well-enough without it.

benarent commented 5 years ago

Sorry for not getting to this sooner. For a subsection of our users it's important terminology as larger orgs are used to running Bastion and Jump Servers. https://www.quora.com/Are-jump-servers-the-same-thing-as-bastion-hosts