Secure Remote Worker 7.2 now available

IT teams can now assign profiles, applications, and virtual disks to devices based on user credentials, integrating with our supported authentication providers. Prior to this, profiles were always assigned to a specific device and that profile would be common for all users using that device.

With user-based profile assignment, two users could receive completely different profiles while using the same device - allowing organizations to provide for situations where multiple employees must utilize the same devices, opening up much more opportunity to embrace shared device or hotdesking strategies.

User-based profile assignment drastically reduces IT administration time by eliminating the need for moving existing profiles or creating new ones for specific use cases or customers. IT simply need to apply singular profiles to the users in their environment, based on the credentials of their authentication provider. The profile will travel with their authentication credentials.

Secure Session Apps is a brand new offering allowing the installation of up to three local applications on virtual, encrypted volumes so they cannot be accessed or viewed outside of the SRW secure environment. The protected volume utilizes the same Bitlocker protected virtual disk technology used by Dual Persona.

This new technology integrates with our existing Software Package deployment, enabling the feature is as simple as ticking a box. 

This new feature of Secure Remote Worker will allow IT teams to apply Enterprise level security to local applications, eliminating the ability for tech-savvy employees to access installation locations of corporate resources - allowing local LoB apps to be deployed without fear of unauthorized access lead to data leakage or malicious actions.

*7.2 allows you to deploy a maximum of 3 Secure Session Apps on each device across your environment. If you require more than this, please contact your account manager here.

In 7.2, ThinScale solutions that are providing resources from a remote desktop can now extract application resources to display as applications inside the ThinScale UI. This allows us to support the latest and greatest version of Azure Virtual Desktop!

This feature has been heavily requested for our customers using AVD, so we are delighted to provide this now.

Also, as access to the relevant applications is much more visible, and not hidden behind a prior client icon, this will greatly enhance the end-user's working experience.