Thin Client Security

Thin clients are widely deployed in a distributed model with core applications running centrally and distributed nodes or branch offices offering client application usage at the end points. Thin clients deployed at these end points include point-of-sale, point of care, or other operational and service systems delivering business critical applications.

Thin client systems are often not compliant with the IT organization’s software change or security policies. Emergency patching and anti-virus are not effective due to high costs and the performance impact these tools have on a thin client system. If thin client systems are not connected to the corporate network, updating the anti-virus definitions can be a big challenge. The net result is that these systems are subject to unauthorized, unwanted, out-of-policy software changes, either by an individual or a malicious attack. This can lead to business risks due to outages, compromised integrity of operations, non-compliance, and audit weaknesses.

Solidcore S3 Control with its dynamic application whitelisting technology provides control over the software installed and running on the thin clients. Solidcore helps reduce support costs by reducing the number of service desk calls generated due to unsupported software. Solidcore keeps the thin client systems secure and in a known good state. Solidcore eliminates the need for emergency patching, reduces the frequency and number of patching cycles and enables IT administrators to have more testing time before patching. Solidcore helps enforce the central IT software change policy, ensuring only authorized software is installed. Deployed across thousands of thin clients at major healthcare institutions, service providers and other organizations, Solidcore S3 Control offers very low operational and performance overhead, making it the ideal choice for protecting these resource-constrained and often vulnerable devices.

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