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The most important data to secure is yours. While some industries like to claim their data is more valuable, and some have laws forcing them to be particularly careful, your data security is paramount. You need to keep unauthorized people from accessing or walking off with something that doesn't belong to them.
Companies already recognize the vulnerability of laptops. One ThinManager customer will let you bring your own laptop into their facility, but on the way out they will literally drill holes through your hard drive. A little over the top? Maybe, but they test nuclear weapons, so it could be a lot worse...
Firewalls are great, but the physical security threat to data needs to be addressed as well. Microsoft tells us that in the first half of 2008 almost two out of five data losses came because someone simply walked off with the records. How many stories have you heard about a missing laptop with sensitive data? Voter registration lists, health records, TSA and military data, even FBI records have all been exposed simply because the data resided on a local machine. These incidents represent literally millions of records. It is the unfortunate truth - PCs and laptops are susceptible to abuse, misuse, security compromises and theft.
Do your company security policies prohibit remote access by devices that have local data storage, such as a hard drive or flash drive? If not, they probably should. And once they do, ThinManager Ready Thin Clients provide one of the only solutions in the world.
That is because no ThinManager Ready Thin Client, no matter what make or model, stores data locally. Even the IP addresses of your Terminal Servers are not visible if the device is removed from the network. With ThinManager ALL of the data reside on central servers, but operators still have access just as if they were using a PC.
And it is not just data that is important. With the threat of viruses, malware and spyware application integrity is threatened as well. One of the big differences between ThinManager and traditional Thin Client technology is that the software on a ThinManager client does not interact with the application. Operators frequently have idle time around their work stations, and this unrestricted physical access gives them a great deal of opportunity to tamper with the device. With ThinManager Ready Thin Clients he may be able to physically destroy the client but he cannot affect application integrity. This is extremely valuable to a company that requires audit assurance or operating security to protect against unauthorized use, deliberate sabotage, or information manipulation.
To completely secure the systems add TermSecure and eliminate just about every security hole. With TermSecure, operators run their standard Windows applications but do not use a Windows PC. Instead they use a locked down terminal that does not even allow them on the Microsoft network until they pass the first level of security.
Security is an issue that cannot be overlooked. Please contact us or one of our distributors and see how easy it will be to start the new year off with one less thing to worry about.
For more information on ACP Industrial Thin Client computers, please visit our web site at http://www.thinmanager.com
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