Windows Virtual Desktop is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualisation service running in the cloud that helps enable a secure remote desktop experience from anywhere, helping organisations strengthen business resilience.
As you progress your journey of enabling remote work for your organisation with Windows Virtual Desktop, it is important to understand the security responsibilities, capabilities and best practices to follow to help keep your users safe.
Some of you may not be familiar with this - let's discuss about some real life use cases to understand the relevance of enterprise virtual desktop solution:
- Security and regulation applications like financial services, healthcare, and government.
- Elastic workforce needs like remote work, mergers and acquisition, short-term employees, contractors, and partner access.
- Specific employees like bring your own device (BYOD) and mobile users, call centers, and branch office workers.
- Specialized workloads like design and engineering, legacy apps, and software development test.
Reference Architecture for Windows Virtual Desktop Deployment
With Windows Virtual Desktop being based on Platform as-a-Service (PaaS), many
infrastructure-related parts of the solution are managed for you by Microsoft. Other parts, mostly relating to the desktop and application workloads, are managed by the customer or partner.
Responsibility Overview
This handbook guides you through the process of configuring security in your Windows Virtual Desktop environment.
In this guide, there are mainly five sections:
Overview of Windows Virtual Desktop
Securing User Identities
Securing Data
Securing Session Hosts and Applications
Securing Network Access
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For more information on Windows Virtual Desktop, click here.
Happy reading and learning...
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