There is No Relief From Data Breaches in Summer

With bright summer days, long weekends and vacations, some may believe that the slower pace of business means relief from computer attacks and data breaches: but think again! The bad actors never relax in efforts to steal valuable private, personal information such as Social Security numbers and credit card information. Recognizable data loss victims in the news these days include Omni Hotels, Wendy's, and the FDIC, and such healthcare providers as 21st Century Oncology, Southeast Eye Institute, Medical Colleagues of Texas, Alliance Health Networks and Stomford Podiatry Group.

NCS Technologies is an important supplier of secure computing solutions to government, healthcare providers and financial services organizations and our virtualization solutions and are a major line of defense against data breaches. As you probably know, virtualization has been first implemented in the data center, where compute, storage and networking infrastructure equipment resides. IT administrators quickly realized the cost benefits of pooled server resources there, plus the pay-off of improved centrally-administered security and improved disaster recovery.

Now the benefits of virtualization are being extending outward to end points through a strategy called Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), where desktop and notebook PCs are thin or zero clients. The terms thin and zero are used interchangeably and refer to PCs that are lightweight and typically purpose-built with no hard drive, memory, etc. and all applications and sensitive data residing back in the data center.

In the real world there is a difference. Many thin clients retain a small capacity hard drive, some local memory and an embedded OS. This requires some administration - increasing IT complexity and security vulnerability.

Zero Client Computing Is Better - In Any Season!

That is why choosing a zero client installation is usually the better choice for desktop and laptop computing.  Zero Clients today are managed by VMware Horizon software and use the ultra-secure Teradici PCoIP remote display protocol. The zero client has no local OS. Therefore, there is no persistent user data, no patches, updates or antivirus software needed.

Zero clients are the easy-to-implement, easy-to-manage, and a low-cost strategy winner. The biggest innovations in the zero client space are mobility and portability. If you needed to take your work with you, NCS has an family of endpoint zero clients to fit your every need.

To learn more about the NCS family of zero client solutions, please download this relevant brochure.