Best practices for Cloud access using proxies and Agent Forwarding

Cloud providers will get angry with you if you deal with network access by popping huge holes in the firewall. If you don't get the angry emails, your account administrator is getting them. At any rate, the practice of simply popping holes in the firewall for web app access is not secure. This guide shows how to make use of a SOCKS proxy for all your web-based access to Cloud VMs. Read more