How Desktop-as-a-Service Helps Secure Your Digital Workplace
Businesses want employees to be productive and happy, which is part of the reason why organizations across the world have embraced remote and hybrid work. But businesses also want to protect against cybersecurity risks. And unfortunately, that goal is often at odds with remote and hybrid work.
This week’s Digital Workplace Insider explore how Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) secures your digital workplace and safeguards your corporate digital assets, while ensuring great digital employee experience.
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How does remote and hybrid work increase the security challenges that businesses face?
·????????Remote work makes it hard to guarantee the physical security of devices that may store sensitive business data.
·????????Remote devices can’t be protected behind firewalls and VPNs in the same way as devices that are located on-site.
·????????IT teams can’t easily monitor, patch and update remote devices in order to stay on top of security threats.
·????????Remote devices often connect to business systems through insecure home networks.
·????????Employees may inadvertently install malware or vulnerable applications on devices that they use when working remotely.
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How DaaS secures modern digital workplaces
DaaS replaces conventional desktop computers with virtual desktop sessions hosted on servers inside a business’s data center or a public cloud. Employees can connect to these sessions from anywhere, at any time, so they get all of the flexibility that they need to work remotely.
At the same time, DaaS plugs the most serious security gaps associated with remote work. Virtual desktops can be protected with firewalls and operated in such a way that sensitive data never leaves the virtual desktop infrastructure – so it is never at risk of physical security breaches.
In addition, DaaS allows for rigid isolation between employees’ personal computing resources and business resources. Virtual desktops keep business applications isolated inside the virtual desktop environment, so that malware or other threats present on local devices are essentially a non-issue from a business security perspective.
The fact that IT teams can continuously monitor virtual desktops and patch them in real time to address security threats adds yet another layer of protection for remote workers. Businesses don’t need to worry that attackers will take advantage of unmonitored, un-updated remote PCs to gain a beachhead from which they can launch further attacks against a business.
To know in detail how DaaS ensures cybersecurity in the new age of working, read our blog on the topic here .