Virtual desktops, real security

Thursday, October 30 2008 @ 01:08 PM EST

Contributed by: sde

Deep inside a nameless government department — you will probably guess its identity, but nobody can say it officially — a Linux desktop revolution has taken hold. For this particular organisation, however, the big deal is not the fact that Linux is involved, but the way in which it is being used.

Because information is classified according to security level — and can only be accessed by networked devices cleared for each security level — the department had to give many users two, three, or more individual desktop PCs of varying security levels.


The result was an administrative and productivity nightmare that not only ate up desk space for paperwork and family happy snaps, but kept users jumping between PCs depending on the task at hand.Read more

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