Images for Companies
For companies either looking at a new remote work solution, or scaling their existing solution, this image can help.
Security is at the forefront of these live desktop images. The entire mastering process was performed on isolated hardware dedicated to each edition. Each merge test started with a hard drive wipe and install of the same version of Ubuntu being built. To ensure a stable source of truth, each version is not iterative. Instead, the merged code is applied to an up to the minute build from official repositories.
It is important to note that these are ephemeral images, which mean they store no data. In keeping with a zero-trust model, the images are designed to be brand new each time they are booted. Employees using these "stock" images will, for example, need to enter the URL of your VPN target in the client app each time the image boots. While Firefox is preloaded and pre-configured for secure use, favorites will not be saved. For custom images, with focused application sets, company background images, VPN URLs set, etc., contact your VAR. We already work with many popular security VARs.
Being ephemeral, FIM requirements are met. The image is certified malware free and will be so at every start-up. The Linux subsystem makes it very unlikely that malware will infect the machine or be able to spread to running processes and any memory resident malware will not persist after a reboot.
All storage in the host system is blocked on the remote worker edition (and all SAEOS editions). To reach full compliance, companies will need to set application and virtual desktop session timeouts to meet the screen lock requirement.
For those in regulated spaces, we are providing a regulatory compliant version that adds additional security measures to VDI clients, FIPS storage compliance, and additional NAC validation.
SAEOS Remote Worker Editions also provide a performance increase over thin clients when it comes to VDI sessions.
Popular enterprise VPN clients are packaged directly from our OEM security partners and loaded them on the image. The packages configuration and the underlying OS is fully supported by the OEM, maintaining your support model. For maximum security and compatibility, all clients are updated our own custom live-update service that checks for updates and applies them before internet access is enabled on every boot. Pretty cool, huh!
The open-source alternatives to these clients are also provided as native network configuration options in the settings panel.
The remote worker live images have been distributed to engineers at each OEM for testing. For many reasons (speed, attack surface, user experience, etc.), it is best to generate an image for your use-case containing only the clients you need.
***Pro Tip: Windows 7 laptops left-over from your Windows 10 refresh are perfect for this image. Remove the hard drive, reset the bios UEFI settings (for a quicker boot experience) and the laptop can be booted directly to the live image.*
The legal stuff... you are responsible for ensuring license compliance with all proprietary and open-source packages contained on these images. There is no representation of security, safety, or reliability by SAEOS, its partners or developers of packages that have been included. Companies should validate the image meets your security and compliance requirements and take commercially reasonable precautions when using technology of this nature.