Clients and potential customers often ask us why Desktop As A Service is critical for them. The answer is that standard security measures are not always enough to ensure complete protection. A large number of workers are working from home now, and in the foreseeable future, and security continues to be a major issue for companies.

Unlike working in an office with a secure network, working remotely makes security trickier, especially if employees are using web-based applications that allow them to either download or sync data to a local folder. There are limited controls a company can impose on a user when they log into an application and download data. The risk of data exposure is exponentially higher and distributed across the entire user base. This is further compounded by having to backup each user’s workstation individually, which is not sustainable for an organization with around ten or more remote users. As long as users have the ability to download to their local computers, maintaining a consistent level of security and compliance is impossible to certify.

Virtual Desktop/Workspace (Desktop As A Service DaaS) gives organizations flexibility to have their users work anywhere, on any device, ensuring that security controls are consistently controlled and maintained at the highest level. DaaS addresses the issue of data security, especially for laptops, by moving all the heavy lifting into an enterprise or cloud data center.

  • User applications no longer need to be installed or run locally on each device.
  • Company data remains in your data center or in the cloud where it is more secure.
  • Since you will now have a centrally maintained and secured data repository, users will always be accessing applications in a protected environment.
  • If a physical device fails, the user can simply switch to a different device and pick up where they left off.
  • All company data AND all user data is backed up centrally.

With this in place, employees can work from almost anywhere with an internet connection and achieve maximum performance with the applications they are using. Your company’s important applications run in a centralized data center with robust infrastructure services, safely isolated from other activity on user devices. Because no data is stored locally on the device, there is no risk of compromise if the device is lost.

A common concern that many enterprises have with DaaS is loss of control, but DaaS and BYOD do not necessarily mean that you lose control over your environment. In fact, you may even increase control. You can quickly and easily grant (or remove) access to applications and data at a granular level. You can also control access to data and prevent employees from making local data copies or writing data to insecure devices.

Lastly, Daas eliminates the risks that result from sensitive data stored on user devices. Data remains secure in a data center, subject to your full control and established governance. DaaS providers take security seriously and offer a variety of advanced authentication and other security capabilities.

Please contact us with any questions on DaaS!