Ah.. the industry's wet blanket. When talking about security in the context of desktop virtualization, there are actually a few angles to view the conversation. Some people justify their virtual desktop environments based on the (perceived) perception that desktop virtualization and VDI is actually more secure than traditional desktops. Other people talk about security only in the context of desktop virtualization, as in "I've already virtualized my desktops, so now I need to keep them as secure as possible." Still other people want to talk about compliance, Sarbanes Oxley, and HIPAA. Luckily we've written about all this stuff over the past ten years:
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This week, Guise Bule from tuCloud joined us on Brian & Gabe Live. You may know Guise as the CEO of tuCloud, and while we wanted to ask about how all that works, we invited Guise on to talk about his latest activity in the ongoing Microsoft/OnLive...
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Yesterday we learned that Simon Crosby and Ian Pratt are leaving Citrix to start a new company called Bromium . I've only met them in passing, and even though Simon and Brian have some sort of thing going on, I have a ton of respect for both Simon and...
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June 23, 2011
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One of the announcements from Citrix Synergy 2011 San Francisco last week was that Citrix was working on a variation of XenClient called "XenClient XT." The XT edition of XenClient is for extra-secure desktop environments where different guest VMs are...
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June 01, 2011
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Last week VMware released View 4.6. It's a minor release with the main new feature being the "VMware View Security Server" which is a security proxy that lets users connect via PCoIP without needing a corporate VPN. But perhaps the bigger...
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March 08, 2011
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There has been a lot of discussion around Reverse Seamless and its value over the years. Recently RES Software announced a standalone version for $15 per user, which Brian wrote about on SearchVirtualDesktop.com calling it "super cool as a stand...
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March 07, 2011
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Back at Citrix Synergy 2010 this past May, Citrix announced a client plug-in for encrypted data. (Remember that Citrix's client components are modular, so Citrix and third parties can write plug-in components to extend the capabilities of the client...
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August 26, 2010
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By now you'd heard that Intel plans to buy McAfee ( press release ), which will become a wholly-owned subsidiary rolling into Intel's software group. There are plenty of other more qualified folks who've been blogging about the deal in general...
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August 20, 2010
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RSA and VMware both have legions of crazed fanatical customers, and as it happens both companies are owned by EMC. This was the topic of one of the side conversations I had at BriForum last month. We talked about how it's weird that the two companies...
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July 26, 2010
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Last week, RBC Capital Markets equity research group released a report about Check Point Software discussing an potential upcoming product called "Abra." Abra would be sold in the form of a USB stick that end users plug into personal / non-corporate...
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December 07, 2009
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I got an email from a reader last week asking a simple question: “With all this desktop virtualization, do you think we still need to keep paying $30 a seat for client security suites (antivirus, etc.)?” This is a great question which we’ll...
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December 02, 2009
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Christa Anderson and Kristin Griffin are collaborating on a Windows 2008 Terminal Services book for Microsoft. Part of this project includes small "tips from the field" entries written by different people. They asked me to write a short bit on security, specifically, what's my one "hot tip" about locking down a terminal server?...
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July 11, 2008
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AEP Networks was one of the vendors in the DEMO lab at BriForum 2008 Chicago. In this video, Brian Madden has a short conversation with AEP's Mike Hjorleifsson. He talks about AEP's SSL-VPN that's now available in virtual appliance format...
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June 18, 2008
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This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2008 , presented by Thorsten Rood. Session Description: Network Access Protection (NAP) is one of the most discussed new features introduced by Microsoft in their Windows Server 2008 platform and respective...
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This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum 2008 , presented by Thorsten Rood. Session Description: Starting with Windows Server 2008, terminal services load balancing has become an integral part of platform functionality. Although the concept...
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I had an opportunity to hear a pitch from a company called "DNSstuff" recently, which was interesting.
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May 11, 2008
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I hate security. I always want to ignore it. But then I see this cool demo and it’s like “yeah, I can understand that”. This post is an introduction to the company and their interesting product....
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March 11, 2008
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An article on vnunet claims that if you just do a default installation of Citrix Presentation Server, you're leaving your system vulnerable to attack. Is this true? If so, how would you fix it?...
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January 10, 2008
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At iForum 2007 in Las Vegas last month, I was able to get my hands on a cool little device called the AccessStick DayXtender from Accario, makers of EPAFactory. Here, I'll let you know what it's all about....
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November 28, 2007
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This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum Europe 2007 , presented by Thorsten Rood. Session Description: A typical out-of-the-box installation for Terminalservices Web Access and Gateway relies on username and password – for most companies...
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October 10, 2007
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This is a video of a breakout session from BriForum Europe 2007 , presented by Thorsten Rood. Session Description: A typical out-of-the-box installation for Terminalservices Web Access and Gateway relies on username and password – for most companies...
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