Turn old PCs into secure, high-performance endpoint devices

 

PCs for dispersed workforce: more expensive, more complex

Traditional desktop-based endpoints are costlier to deploy and replenish, difficult to secure and manage. Typically, PCs have a lifecycle of 3–4 years after which their value is lost significantly and need to be updated by brand new ones resulting in increased costs. Such short lifecycles of PCs also mean more and more e-waste is generated. E-waste handling is a very complex and costly process in most parts of the world.

IT teams spend a considerable amount of their budget and time installing and upgrading applications and fixing problems at individual endpoints. In a mass-scale work-from-home scenario like now, distributing desktops or laptops and to the entire workforce creates financial burden, while providing IT support to the remote workforce might not be possible at all times. This is especially true for small and medium enterprises. BYOD might be a good alternative but simply replacing corporate owned devices with BYOD is a difficult proposition. Allowing BYOD users to remotely access internal applications poses serious security and compliance challenges.

Endpoint-related challenges

• Regularly replenishing/upgrading PC software and hardware
• Providing laptops to new hires, vendors and third-party consultants
• Resolving remote endpoint issues which need IT team’s physical intervention
• Allocating and distributing high configuration or low configuration devices as per user profile
• Managing the complex process of e-waste handling and disposal
• Monitoring user activities as effectively as when they were working from office premises
• Ensuring strict data security and data leakage prevention features

AccOps Nano — Transform any PC into a secure device using a pen drive

AccOps Nano provides secure and compliance-friendly remote access to business applications and virtual desktop infrastructure, enabling instant, cost-effective and secure remote work solution.

AccOps Nano is a customized and hardened Linux-based Live OS that is delivered in a simple USB drive. It can be used on any device — corporate laptops or users’ personal laptops — to boot it into a secure read-only OS. The live OS will always remain free from any keylogger or malware potentially residing in the user’s device.

It potentially transforms any PC, no matter how old, outdated, poorly configured or insecure it is, into a highly secure, updated machine.