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zero-trust security requires a combination of endpoint management, detection and remediation, which starts by monitoring four dimensions: user identity, application access, network access and device.
Should anything vary from what’s expected — suddenly,
the student is logging in from another country — the security aspects of Workspace ONE, powered by Carbon Black, can throw a security question at the user. If he or she can’t answer that, the fortress goes into defense mode.
What makes Workspace ONE so powerful and what holds those secure functions together is NSX, VMware’s network virtualization platform that acts as a cloud firewall. NSX uses software-defined networking to support implementation of virtual networks on both physical networks and virtual server infrastructures. NSX serves as a security wrapper around network traffic, with instant recognition when good traffic turns bad and the ability to automatically eliminate access.
The Benefit of the Virtualized Student Experience
Institutions large and small have discovered the benefits of providing a virtualized experience to users.
One community college system has adopted Workspace ONE for its 24 different colleges and 80,000 students. The major concern was how to manage all of the devices that suddenly needed secure access to network services and resources, while delivering optimal learning to students and a robust remote work experience to faculty and staff. Workspace ONE has enabled the college system to integrate multiple curricular activities into the student experience.
A private, nonprofit technical college adopted VMware’s digital workspace solution to give its students rapid, safe and effective access to collaboration tools and high-end computing programs for engineering, design, electronics and other programs, from their own virtual desktops, helping them to continue learning.
Adopting a platform approach to serve as a one-stop shop reduces the complexity of so many moving parts and simplifies IT operations. But it does this to support the kind of user experience that can satisfy every student.
Doug Harvey is the vice president of State and Local Government & Education for VMware. John Punzak is the senior national director of Healthcare & SLED Business Development for VMware. Herb Thompson is the SLED strategist for VMware.
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