Boost HIPAA compliance & security over mobile

Bring your own device

Embracing BYOD for laptops and tablets you don’t own.

Bring your own device (BYOD) is becoming a secular trend. As more enterprises adopt mobile workstyles, they are allowing employees to use non-corporate devices like laptops, smartphones, and tablets for work. A BYOD strategy can empower users help businesses perform at their best and also present signi cant challenges for IT departments—information security, compliance and data privacy standards.

Organizations are seeking BYOD solutions that enable IT to securely embrace consumer devices in the workplace and empower people to be more productive while using their preferred smartphone, tablet or notebook. The lack of a structured approach to BYOD leaves organizations exposed to security gaps, compliance issues and rising IT complexity. Trends that are accelerating the need for a simple, secure BYOD solution include:

1. Empowering users to improve productivity and satisfaction

2. Protecting sensitive information while addressing privacy, compliance and risk mandates

3. Reducing costs and simplifying management through a comprehensive solution

Empowering people To stay competitive, organizations are allowing usersto supplement their corporate-owned end points with additional devices— smartphones, tablets, laptops, home PCs—as needed for optimal exibility, mobility and productivity. But how will the users access enterprise applications and business information on their personal devices?

IT should be able to deliver on-demand apps, desktops and data to any device, anywhere, over any connection, while empowering users to work easily, securely and seamlessly across any type of device, regardless of ownership. Citrix XenDesktop enables IT to provide optimal freedom for users without restricting BYOD program to Windows-based devices. Employees gain single-click secure access to all of their Windows, web, SaaS and mobile apps through a uni ed app store on any device, over any network, with single sign-on and seamless session roaming across locations, networks and devices.

Protecting sensitive information – Many people have also started using unmanaged third-party apps and online services for work—IT needs a way to control and manage this usage and prevent these apps from introducing security risks to the organization. Simply installing apps directly on the device would raise serious security, privacy and compliance risks.

With Citrix XenDesktop, IT can provision and de-provision apps of all types quickly, whether to provide new resources or to cut off access when it is no longer needed or appropriate. In most scenarios, business information remains secure in the datacenter; in cases where it has to reside on the endpoint, it is protected through isolation, encryption and remote wipe mechanisms. To prevent ex ltration, IT can implement policies to disable printing or access to client-side storage such as local drives and USB storage.

Reducing costs and simplifying management – One of the primary bene ts of BYOD is the ability to reduce costs by having people pay part or all of the cost of various devices used for work, and getting IT out of the business of procuring and supporting an expanding array of hardware throughout the enterprise. But lack of a coherent approach to BYOD strategy can leave the organization exposed to risks from security and compliance gaps to escalating IT complexity.

Citrix XenDesktop allows IT to simplify management and reduce costs by leveraging the ability to granularly manage data, session and application information, sensitive data can be securely accessed on personally-owned devices. IT gains identity- based provisioning and control of apps, data and devices, automatic account de- provisioning for terminated users and selective wipe of lost devices.

Embracing BYOD with XenDesktop

With Citrix XenDesktop for application and desktop virtualization, IT will be able to simplify management, augment security and meet employee demand to use their own devices. Users anywhere can easily and securely access their virtual desktop and applications—including mobile, Windows, web and SaaS apps—from any computing platform or operating system. They can securely share and sync les across all their devices, while IT maintains control of data, apps and devices through comprehensive access policies and the ability to remotely wipe data from lost or stolen devices.

XenDesktop and other Citrix components, described below, are integrated for delivering a comprehensive, successful BYOD strategy.

Citrix XenDesktop

Citrix XenDesktop delivers Windows desktops as an on-demand service to any device. The type of OS does not matter; XenDesktop works on any device, regardless of where the user is located. XenDesktop can quickly and securely deliver individual applications or complete desktops that employees are familiar with, while providing a better, high-de nition experience. Because apps and data are managed within the datacenter, IT maintains centralized data protection, compliance, access control and user administration as easily on personally-owned devices as on corporate-owned endpoints—within the same uni ed environment.