In these troubling times, re-defining your mobile strategy to enable more employees to remote work securely and safely is vital. Here we look at how dynabook Mobile Zero Client can truly deliver security to your laptop strategy.
Home working and remote working have quickly become the lynchpin of the ‘new normal’ working environment. As a result, businesses of all sizes are relying ever more on their IT departments to help support and maintain remote working colleagues.
While remote working from a laptop can help keep employees productive while away from the office, managing such devices bring their own challenges, none more so than increased security threats, both intentional and inadvertent.
Thin Client or Zero Client?
IT managers in the past have found that one way to deal with managing multiple remote devices is to switch to a thin client solution, whereby a laptop, or desktop PC, is optimised to run resources, such as the productive operating system, from a central server (a virtual desktop) rather than its own hard drive. This link is created using a remote connection with a cloud-based computing environment from the thin-client host operating system.
Such a solution offers increased security, reduced costs, better IT management efficiencies and is easily scalable. However, this approach has its limitations, both in size of the device and the continued security of information.
A smarter way to manage remote working is to employ the use of a zero client. In essence, thin clients and zero clients are similar, but zero client differs in the fact that the operating system is not permanently housed in the device. It relies on a central, purpose-built server that hosts the operating system and applications.
All functionality and data is managed in the cloud through a secure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). With no data being stored on the zero client laptop, there is no need for a physical hard drive, therefore making the laptop less of a threat to data theft.
There is another benefit to hosting all content in the cloud, as zero clients reduce the ongoing management costs of your laptop devices. Whether this is in the form of the actual cost of the laptop, with less components they are more efficient and durable, to the amount of IT management required, as all updates and maintenance can be managed from a central IT point. Not only are zero clients more affordable, quicker and more efficient, they also consume considerably less energy than standard desktop PCs.
Why Choose dynabook Zero Client?
The dynabook Mobile Zero Client (DMZC) is unique in that it allows employees to stay productive when home working.
With over 30 years of laptop engineering experience, and creating secure firmware and award-winning hardware, dynabook is one of only a handful of laptop manufacturers that create and maintain its own BIOS and UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) software.
This means, we have the expertise and capabilities to write enhanced security firmware for the zero client, therefore improving the security and reducing the risk of threats to your business laptops.
Unlike a thin client, DMZC contains no locally installed operating system, and doesn’t allow any data to be hosted or stored on the laptop. Instead, both functionality and data is made available through a user’s existing VDI solution, including Citrix and VMware, removing the threat of malware being stored on the device.
In addition, there is no requirement for a laboured, costly or time-consuming set up. Due to the minimalistic management, dynabook Mobile Zero Client offers a greater total cost of ownership benefit during the lifecycle of the mobile product.
As all updates are managed centrally by the IT team, even the most inexperienced computer user will have peace of mind that their laptop will continue to work from home.
With no information stored on the actual laptop, should a user lose or break their dynabook Mobile Zero Client laptop, your business won’t lose information, while additional boot control authentication allows you to remotely and instantly shutdown lost or stolen units.
What’s more, DMZC is unique in that it enables businesses to take a ‘set and forget’ approach. Once set up there would only be a need to proactively add new devices, or in the event of a device being stolen, disable the device, rendering it inoperable to a third party.
Discover the dynabook Mobile Zero Client, and achieve low cost of ownership, low failure rates, and maximum peace of mind. To find out more, Get in Touch.
