Moving Target Defense Blog

With more people working from home than ever before in history, virtual desktop infrastructures have arisen as a fast and cost-effective method to ensure that remote workers can access the applications they need from wherever they are. In fact, VDI use might soon increase, as Gartner recently found that 74 percent of CFOs intend to shift some positions to working from home permanently because of increased efficiencies. 

How do you steal something that doesn’t exist? That’s the thinking behind the widespread fallacy that virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is more secure than physical desktops.

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) felt like a lifeline at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. As offices rushed to close down and companies scrambled to operate remotely, those with VDI found the process to be surprisingly seamless. People didn’t have to bring the office home with them or make do with incomplete data and insufficient tools. Instead, they simply had to login to a portal to access a virtual copy of their own office desktop. The setting may have changed, but thanks to VDI, the workflows carried on as always.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced companies to experiment with remote work in ways they never had before. For many, working from home was the only viable option for weeks or months due to mandatory shutdown orders and grave public health concerns. But that doesn’t explain why 74% of the CFOs recently surveyed by Gartner plan to make some positions permanently remote even after the pandemic ends.

The recent rise in remote working has up-ended the corporate IT landscape. In a matter of days, remote working went from a nice-to-have perk to necessity for millions of companies globally as countries continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. . To keep pace with changing business needs, organizations have embraced virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), which can help keep distributed workforces safe, flexible, and connected.

Virtual desktop security is always a critical topic when enterprises leverage virtual desktop infrastructures, or VDI, as part of their internal IT strategy. In recent months, however, VDIs have grown in importance as more people work from home; deploying virtual desktops is one way to ensure that remote employees are securely accessing the data and applications they need to do their jobs.