ESS in internet

Dear ESS Gurus,
I have customer with new requirement. This customer wants to provide the ESS service through internet to their employees. I am just wondering what kind of security issues we have to consider here.
It will be helpful if anyone who has done this eary share yr perspective.
Please let me know, is it technically possible to implement.
Waiting for yr reply.

We have done last two ESS implementations by exposing it to internet.
Our basis guyz had made use Webdispatcher and DMZ servers with real public IP address by assigning a qualified domain name to it.
Even we had certain issues in terms of exposing the ECC http port (8001) into internet since there were certain ABAP webdynpro applications which were integrated into Portal (EP 7.0).
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Anil Kumar.

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