Re: Fwd: [ITSM] VDI for Administrative/Academic Staff desktop/laptops?

["Haselhoff, Brent" <brent.haselhoff () WKU EDU>]

We have piloted VDI a couple of times.  Our focus was mostly for labs, but we did discuss deploying it to select 
Faculty/Staff that only needed access to basic things like Banner and email.  Ultimately, things like poor video 
performance kept us from doing more than a small deployment to a computer lab.  Our largest deployment was Citirx 
running on VMWare, but we tested Hyper-V as well.  In both cases we used various thin/zero clients from Wyse.

I actually like the concept of VDI from a security perspective.  The idea of being able to test various patches and 
then deploying them to everyone is really appealing.  What are your security concerns?

Brent Haselhoff
Manager, IT Security and Identity Management
brent.haselhoff () wku edu<mailto:brent.haselhoff () wku edu>
270-745-2012

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Ronald 
King
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Subject: [SECURITY] Fwd: [ITSM] VDI for Administrative/Academic Staff desktop/laptops?

I am posting this here for my colleague. Also, I have my reservations from a security standpoint, so any input related 
to security would be welcome.  Feel free to contact me directly if you like.

From: Andrea Tanner <andrea.tanner () morgan edu<mailto:andrea.tanner () morgan edu>>
Date: Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:44 AM
Subject: [ITSM] VDI for Administrative/Academic Staff desktop/laptops?
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Are any of you running VDI deployments for faculty and staff desktops/laptop replacements (computers outside labs and 
classrooms)?  I am talking about "complete" VDI hardware replacements and not virtual machines connecting via software 
on a standard Mac/PC laptop or desktop.

If you are running a VDI technology for faculty and staff machines, what hardware have you deployed and what sort of 
issues have you run into while deploying?  What does your deployment look like in terms of the departments or 
individuals?

For those of you who are not running any sort of VDI desktop replacement for faculty and staff, please feel free to 
jump in with your comments about if you are looking into this for your institutions today and why or why not.  :)

Thank you so much for your input and thoughts!

Andrea Tanner, M.S.
Assistant Director of Client Services
Morgan State University
andrea.tanner () morgan edu<mailto:andrea.tanner () morgan edu>
(443) 885-4445<tel:(443)%20885-4445>

Thank you,
Ronald A. King, CISSP
Chief Information Security Officer
Morgan State University Office: (443) 885-3372<tel:(443)%20885-3372>
1700 E. Cold Spring Ln. Email: ronald.king () morgan edu<mailto:ronald.king () morgan edu>
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