Data Stored on the Desktop is a Major Security Risk says Symbio Technologies
[author:Symbio Technologies Public time:Jul 1, 2007] |
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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y.----Symbio Technologies (www.symbio-technologies.com), an innovator in stateless computing, grew up with PCs. But now the company's co-founders, Roger Del Russo and Gideon Romm, offer some “heartfelt advice” to today’s government and business people, telling them that “data stored on the desktop creates a major security risk.”
Mr. Del Russo and Mr. Romm are advocates of and innovators in stateless computing –where no operating system or any other valuable information or data is stored on the desktop – for businesses, government, schools and other distributed computing environments. “It’s the 21st century iteration of how corporate computing started some three and a half decades ago, with mainframes attached to terminals, and everyone’s information was centrally stored and managed,” Mr. Del Russo said.
“Using diskless and stateless thin clients and Symbio’s proprietary boot appliance that boots and links them to the server, we've created server-centric computing that works at the speed of today’s lightening-fast servers,” Mr. Romm added. “And the data is secure – really safe – because users perform all work on the secured servers. Their data that appears on their monitor never leaves the server.”
“It’s a very simple and basic premise, said Mr. Del Russo. “By using stateless and diskless thin clients, the operating system, applications and all data remain on the server. It makes sense that just one computer -- the server -- can be secured more effectively and efficiently than hundreds of individual PCs.”
The Most Data-Secure Desktop Available
“By eliminating data on the desktop, and by developing desktop terminals that make it very, very difficult for users to copy files to CDs or other removable devices, Symbio has created a system that provides the most data-secure desktop currently available,” said Mr. Romm. “And by promoting centralization and consolidation of data from many individual units to a few, highly secured units, Symbio fosters the use of the industry-standard remote access techniques provided by Windows Terminal Services, No Machine, and others.”
“If you need to work at home,” Mr. Del Russo said, “use your desktop or laptop, but for security's sake, leave your data in the office. By accessing the server from home through a secure virtual private network (VPN), users have full access to all information, just as if they were sitting at your securely linked desktops. It’s a win-win situation, with files safe and secure on the office server.”
Symbio’s co-founders warn that computer users should not forget “the data-loss fiasco” when an employee of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs took home a laptop containing the names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth of more than 26 million veterans and their spouses. The laptop was stolen, and with it, a hard drive full of unencrypted data.
“If the VA were a Symbio customer,” said Mr. Romm, “its data would have been centrally stored and secured on servers, an
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