{"id":51086,"date":"2024-04-25T12:10:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=51086"},"modified":"2024-04-25T12:10:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:10:35","slug":"kaspersky-thin-client-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/kaspersky-thin-client-2-0\/51086\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a thin client is better than a workstation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many companies have long since moved from the traditional workstation model to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/thin-client-cybersecurity\/36902\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)<\/a>. VDI provides a number of advantages \u2014 one being better cybersecurity (not least because work data doesn\u2019t leave corporate servers; it always lives in a virtual machine). However, despite a popular misconception, VDI alone doesn\u2019t mean guaranteed security. It always matters how secure the endpoint device is that connects to the virtual workplace.<\/p>\n<p>By and large, there are two options for using VDI. The first is to employ traditional workstations; the second is to use thin clients. Common advantages of a thin client include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>no moving parts: they don\u2019t have active cooling systems or mechanical hard drives, which significantly increases the service life of the thin client (up to 7-10 years);<\/li>\n<li>low energy consumption, which leads to direct savings;<\/li>\n<li>lower price and cost of ownership (in comparation even with desktops and laptops for office work);<\/li>\n<li>ease of maintenance and operation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, from our point of view, this isn\u2019t the main advantage of using a thin client. Any workstation, be it a desktop PC or a laptop, must be provided with additional layers protection. And a thin client can be made secure as-is if its operating system is based on the secure-by-design principle. It\u2019s precisely such an operating system \u2014 Kaspersky Thin Client 2.0 \u2014 that we propose to use in thin clients connected to virtual desktop infrastructure.<\/p>\n<h2>What is Kaspersky Thin Client, and what\u2019s new in version 2.0?<\/h2>\n<p>Essentially, Kaspersky Thin Client 2.0 is an updated operating system for thin clients, created in accordance with our Cyber Immune approach; as such, it doesn\u2019t require additional security measures. Kaspersky Thin Client is based on our KasperskyOS system, which minimizes the risk of its compromise even in the event of complex targeted attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The updated Kaspersky Thin Client version 2.0 can connect to remote environments deployed on the Citrix Workspace platform and VMware Horizon infrastructure using HTML5 technology. Kaspersky Thin Client 2.0 also supports connection to individual business applications deployed on the Microsoft Remote Desktop Services infrastructure, Windows Server, and terminal servers running Windows 10\/11.<\/p>\n<p>Another key change in KTC 2.0 is the increase in performance. We managed to increase both the speed of application delivery and the speed of system updates (due to the compact size of the OS image). Now deployment time of thin clients under KTC 2.0 through automatic connection takes about two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about the updated operating system for thin clients on the <a href=\"https:\/\/os.kaspersky.com\/solutions\/kaspersky-thin-client\/?icid=gl_kdailyplacehold_acq_ona_smm__onl_b2b_kasperskydaily_wpplaceholder____\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kaspersky Thin Client<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<input type=\"hidden\" class=\"category_for_banner\" value=\"mdr\"><input type=\"hidden\" class=\"placeholder_for_banner\" data-cat_id=\"mdr\" value=\"51084\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We explain why it\u2019s preferable to use a thin client (especially running the updated Kaspersky Thin Client 2.0) in virtual desktop infrastructure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2706,"featured_media":51087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1999,3051],"tags":[3932],"class_list":{"0":"post-51086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-enterprise","9":"tag-thin-clients"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/kaspersky-thin-client-2-0\/51086\/"},{"hreflang":"ru","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.ru\/blog\/kaspersky-thin-client-2-0\/37347\/"},{"hreflang":"ru-kz","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.kz\/kaspersky-thin-client-2-0\/27689\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/thin-clients\/","name":"thin clients"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51088,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51086\/revisions\/51088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}