Home office, mobile working & new work
Working from anywhere - uncomplicated and highly secure
Not only has the Corona pandemic pushed the majority of employees into home office, but it has also catapulted the working world as a whole into the future. Work mobility has become a matter of course for many. Private end devices allow people to work outside the spatial and temporal boundaries of their companies, no matter whether they work full-time from home or in the rapidly increasing "new-work" model, an efficient combination of mobile and in-house working.
Mobile workstations place very high requirements on data protection and network security
This raises several questions:
- How to integrate employees securely and quickly into the corporate network without having to invest in additional hardware (e.g., a company laptop)?
- How to guarantee the security of the remote access to the corporate network?
- Will employees be able to copy data and store it at home on their home workstations?
To integrate employees quickly and cost-efficiently into a corporate network, the integration should, above all, be secure because opening up the company network to private end devices involves a number of security risks:
- Infiltration by malware
- Theft of access data
- Trojans spying on the private PC
- Abuse of data by attackers or users themselves
- Loss of locally stored data if the notebook gets lost
Experience has shown that administrative efforts involved in bringing in private devices often outweigh the savings:
- Installation and configuration of the required VPN client software on the end device
- Continuous monitoring of security measures on the private PC
- Support effort due to malfunctions caused by the installation of the access software
- Support effort due to malfunctions of the operating environment, caused by the installation of private software
A solution providing the benefits of bring-your-own-device (BYOD), meeting the highest security requirements and minimizing administration efforts is therefore needed. This solution must also also comply with the most stringent data protection regulations by 100% separation of private and business use..
ECOS technology was designed to meet precisely such requirements.
Maximum security
- Corporate servers are accessed within a closed and protected environment.
- The ECOS SECURE BOOT STICK® also serves for 2-factor authentication.
- When the ECOS SECURE BOOT STICK is booted, the local operating system remains inactive, so no malware can be activated.
- Data can neither be printed nor copied to external storage media without explicit approval by the administrator.
- No data is stored locally while the ECOS SECURE BOOT STICK is in use.
Minimal administration
- The stick provides all the software needed to access data and applications.
- The management appliance performs the central configuration.
- The local operating system is not booted so neither drivers nor any other file can be loaded from the local hard drive. Likewise, no data can be stored locally.
- The local hard disk is not accessed at all.
- The strict separation of private and business use rules out any modification of the company software by private software installations.