Security News > 2021 > February > Enable secure remote workspaces without trashing your entire IT infrastructure

Security policies governing remote working and secure access were either scaled up or slapped together in an ad hoc fashion to keep operations going, but they often interfered with worker productivity.

The problems with unanticipated demand for secure remote work.

Most weren't ready to enable a wider range of remote worker tasks involving a larger set of corporate assets.

With OS-based isolation, whatever happens inside the VM cannot in any way affect the underlying OS. In this way workers can browse less secure websites, but they also have the freedom to download and experiment with necessary web-based applications and tap into all the commonly used tools and solutions that make work easier, without risking infiltration of malware or exfiltration of business-critical data.

OS-based isolation will take the place of VDI and DaaS. It's worth noting that OS-based isolation can now fully take the place of VDI and DaaS. But with so many enterprises having one or the other of these legacy remote desktop solutions firmly entrenched in their IT stack, it's far more likely that enterprises will choose to "Layer on" OS-based isolation atop their VDI or DaaS instantiation to expand worker freedom while improving corporate security, at least until the incumbent remote work solution is due for a refresh.

Seeing how remote work at scale is very likely here to stay long after the pandemic has faded to nothing more than a bad memory, it's time for enterprises to wake up to the reality that IT freedom and corporate security can perfectly co-exist in the new enterprise remote work toolkit.

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