Is antimalware software required on VDI thin clients?

Is antimalware software required on VDI thin clients?

Thin clients are one useful option for VDI access. Some of these devices don’t require antimalware software, as they are secure enough by their own.

But some others require extra protection in order to assure data and users security. One example are repurposed PCs as thin clients, since although they are not usually configured to run software locally, they are tecnically vulnerable to different types of malware.

Quick & effective app virtualization with UDS Enterprise

Quick & effective app virtualization with UDS Enterprise

UDS Enterprise, our multiplatform connection broker for Windows and Linux, features application virtualization. This software allows to deploy and manage users access to virtualized applications in a quick and effective way.

With UDS Enterprise, users access their vApp just with one-click, no client software is needed. The software supports up to thousands of users access against a single application and enables to manage the access to your applications catalogue from a single dashboard and safely from WAN, making more easy the work of IT admins.

Solus 1.1 released featuring interesting new features

Solus 1.1 released featuring interesting new features

Solus second release is already available for download. This Linux From Scratch based GNU/Linux minimalist distro features a lot of improvements, such as updates in its own desktop evironment, Budgie, fixing issues affecting icons, network and rendering. They have also dropped GDM for LightDM to get significant performance improvements.

Hardware optimizations have also been performed, updating Mesa, Xorg and Intel‘s driver for X11 to extend support to Broadwell and Skylake.

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