EUC – Empowering a secure digital workspace

Workspace One

The most of the customers that I talk to have some sort of project going on and they always have splendid work titles.

  • The new workplace
  • Workplace of the future
  • Future Flexible Devices
  • Any application, any device, anywhere, any time

But, is the digital workplace a VDI solution? Is it Published Applications? Is it when we can work on any device? Isn’t the future, now?

Let’s get back to the basics on how a workplace is delivered


computers
I think if we look at how we delivered a workplace in the past, we can fairly say that IT used to be simple.

–    Same corporate image for everybody
–    Secure it, lock it down
–    Issue with the computer: re-image

And when something changed, we just start over from the top.That just how we did things, and if I look at my customers that is still how we are doing things.


Workspaces adapt with the speed of life!

The world is changing, and I could give a speech about digital transformation and about the world biggest taxi company that doesn’t own … blablabla.

Let’s just look at yourself.
How many device do you have? A minimum of 2, maybe 3 or even 4 !(laptop, tablet, smart phone, smart-watch, …).  Where do you access company applications and data? From home, from the airport (like me now), from a public restaurant or once in a while from inside the corporate office.

Everybody wants to use any device, any application, anywhere depending on the use case.

devicesAnd we see a massive change in the application landscape. More and more SAAS and modern apps are being delivered next to still a large stack of traditional applications.

So a lot of organisation are struggling to deliver a simple solution to access all those applications on any device and have issues to manage the growing complexity.

And what about security?

 

Wouldn’t it be amazing to have a solution that combines consumer simplicity and enterprise security.

A Secure Digital Workplace should have the following characteristics

1. Consumer Simple
No matter what kind of application (SAAS, Modern, Traditional), no matter what kind of device, a user should have a seamless experience of accessing corporate application on any device.

2. Enterprise Security
Security should be built-in in the main core of the platform. An easy way to deliver conditional access (based on location, identity, device posture), adaptive management (BYOD, CYOD, COPE, COCC), Multi-Factor authentication, Per-APP VPN, DLP features,…

3. Intelligence-driven.
The aggregation and correlation of user, device, application data should lead to better insights,  recommendations and even automation of a set of rules.

Conclusion

Workspace ONE is a digital workspace PLATFORM that enables our IT customers to empower their workforce to securely bring the technology of their choice (devices and apps) at the pace and cost the business needs. It is built of two key tenets of consumer simple and enterprise secure.

workspace one

At the end of the day, if the technology you deliver is unusable, you will be back to square one, where your employees will start bypassing IT and bring in their tools of choice resulting in cost and lack of security. With Workspace ONE you now can meet your business objectives by delivering a great user experience and you don’t need to compromise enterprise security to get there.

Frederiek

Follow me on Twitter: @endpointmain

The  computer, laptop, tablet, smart-phone, smart-watch, smart-glass say NO! #MobileRevolution


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