Security in the computing environment is about protecting your physical and virtual assets. Just think of what you and your company might lose; valuable data related to personnel, production and performance, or proprietary technologies. Perhaps you're concerned about destruction of company computing equipment by malicious code.  The uncertainty of your situation can be a grave matter.

No one can offer a silver bullet.  Your best defense is an understanding of the overall threat.  Adding measures to limite access by unauthorized users is fundamental to protecting your computing environments.  Guarding against the most obvious weaknesses, like a weak password, is the first step.  Limiting the points of entry into your systems is crucial to securing your computing environment.  The more complex your systems are, the greater the number of barriers you must set up.   

ACP believes in terminal services and thin clients.  We believe it is the most efficient and supportable computing environment available today.  Inherently, it’s also one of the most secure computing environments obtainable.  The real beauty of terminal services and thin clients is that, while its architecture is simple and thus manageable, it is still robust and it natively supports almost every Windows application as if it were running in a full workstation environment.

Its inherent security comes from the separation of the user and client from the computing platform.  If done right, the client devices actually protect the centralized computing environment.  Additionally, setting up and securing one terminal server can support secure computing for as many as 30 or 40 terminals and users.

ThinManager Ready client devices benefit from the proprietary nature of their operating software.  The client firmware itself is impervious to attach by worms or viruses.  ACP’s unique remote boot technology means the client doesn’t even retain the firmware local to the device.  If the firmware were actually compromised a clean image could be had by simply rebooting the client. 

ACP wanted more security for thin clients at the user level; so we added a second level of security for users and clients, TermSecure™.  Now any ThinManager administrator can lock down individual thin clients or terminal server application groups, restricting user access before they even reach a Windows login.   We even added support for combined authentication modes using a physical device like a USB key fob or prox card in combination with a password.  Think of it this way; if you are able to restrict access to the client devices in your working environments, you're actually adding a layer or protection for your server systems.

TermSecure™ also includes functionality we call “Context Key”, linking a TermSecure user to his or her applications upon log in.  As the user moves from client to client their applications follow.  This means that one client terminal can now be accessed by many users with each seeing their own application environment.