Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for the Financial Services Industry

whitePaper | December 2, 2019

The key objective for this white paper is to outline the benefits, enablers and challenges for Network Functions Virtualisation (as distinct from Cloud/SDN) and the rationale for encouraging an international collaboration to accelerate development and deployment of interoperable solutions based on high volume industry standard servers.

whitePaper | January 14, 2022

The government market is becoming increasingly competitive, providing agencies with choices. In a time of tight budgetary resources, the focus is on increasing operational efficiencies and institutional resilience through accelerating digital transformation. Most government agencies are experiencing a large growth in digital innovations.

whitePaper | October 10, 2022

The number of financial institutions exploring enterprise blockchain networks to address multiple market forces is growing. Based on VMware customers and supported by The Value Exchange’s 2021 research on 150 financial institutions, the adoption of blockchain-based distributed ledger technologies (DLT) is already underway.

whitePaper | June 14, 2022

The complexity and cost of ensuring network security and remote access for employees and key business partners can overwhelm smaller businesses. Higher cloud adoption, a distributed workforce, mobile employees, the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks make traditional methods of ensuring secure communications across your organization overly complex and expensive. Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) reduces the surface area for attack by following zero trust tenets to provide access to applications. ZTNA from OpenVPN Cloud creates a private, secure overlay network for businesses, which connects all of their applications, private networks, workforce, and IoT devices together without needing to own and manage a multitude of complex and hard-to-scale security and data networking gear.

whitePaper | September 13, 2022

Organizations that replace their existing Citrix desktop and application virtualization platform do so for various reasons. Some want to augment their technical feature set, such as acquiring advanced image and app management functionalities, and others might be looking to offer their remote workforce a better experience for all applications. Another motivation for many to migrate to a different vendor is to gain a secure, integrated digital workspace platform that offers flexibility and the advantage of unified endpoint management

whitePaper | October 12, 2022

During routine analysis of detection performance, we noticed a batch of processes that respected the same pattern in the process names. These names begin with sys, win or lib followed by a word that describes the functionality, such as bus, crt, temp, cache, init, and end in 32.exe. We later noticed that the .bat files and the downloaded payloads respect the same naming convention. Further investigation revealed the components are part of a monitoring application called SecondEye, developed in Iran and distributed legitimately via the developer’s website. We also found that some spyware components were already described in an article published by Blackpoint [1]. In the article, researchers drew attention to the dangers of legally distributed monitoring software with malicious behavior