Never-Trust vs Zero-Trust
The concept of BYOD has been around for many years, normally it would used to enable remote access for employees, students, and contractors who want to use their own devices for work or academic purposes.
Although in theory adopting a BYOD strategy makes sense, it also raises several significant concerns around security and the costs associated with managing and maintaining non corporate devices.
The Challenges Associated With BYOD
From an infosec perspective, does the device have the latest patches and updates, or does it have an up to date antivirus installed? From a procurement and IT department perspective, can you afford to manage, deploy, maintain the volume of BYOD devices and wide range of operating systems within your organisation.
On top of that, the most recent version of cyber essentials v3.1, which was released in April 2024, has brought about several significant modifications. One notable change is the inclusion of BYOD within its scope. This addition could potentially pose a challenge for any organisation seeking to achieve a cyber certification.
Why Clients Adopt Droplet NeverTrustTM Containers For BYOD
Droplet NeverTrustTM Containers helps eliminate these challenges, enabling IT to simplify and standardise how they deliver, secure, remote access to your workforce, on any operating system, any device, anywhere.
Droplet is a software based on containerisation, which can easily run any x86 application, whether it’s legacy, bespoke or modern on any Windows, MacOS, ChromeOS or Linux endpoints.
When Droplet is installed we create a “true isolation layer” between our container and the operating system of the device that we’re installed on. i.e. Windows, MacBook or Chromebook.
Security is at the heart of everything we do, for example, our built-in Firewall by default blocks all inbound traffic, helping to lock down both the user, the applications and the physical device.
When installed together on an endpoint which connects to a Droplet server, we encrypt the traffic between both points, helping to prevent ransomware, man in the middle and zero day attacks.
A Droplet user can only launch the apps that are aligned to them, they can’t install or delete any applications, which are streamed to them via a Droplet server.
In Summary
Many of our clients have embraced our unique Droplet NeverTrustTM approach to help securely delivering x86 apps to any operating system, both as a cost-effective alternative to VDI and a robust BYOD strategy, that’s easy to manage, deploy and support at a cost that they can afford with minimum effort.
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