Use ngrok for RDP - security

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I use ngrok (https://ngrok.com/) at work to be able to access my computer from home (We also have a VPN but I get errors) using :

ngrok tcp 3389

It works perfectly, but I was wondering how secure it is. Do I risk compromising the security of the company?

ngrok rdp security
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There are at least 2 aspects of security here:

  1. encryption of the traffic running over the ngrok TCP tunnel.
  2. authenticating access to the ngrok TCP tunnel.

For encryption, a ngrok TCP tunnel forwards raw TCP and does not encrypt your application's packets. One way to encrypt your traffic is to have your RDP server and client negotiate an encrypted connection (for example over TLS).

For authentication, ngrok provides IP Whitelisting for ngrok TCP tunnels.

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