On March 21st, 2019, Microsoft announced the public beta release of ‘WVD’ – “Windows Virtual Desktop” in full. It’s kind of a big thing for Microsoft, and perhaps for the entire industry. In this blog post, we’ll give insight into what WVD is, and what it isn’t. Furthermore, let’s take a look at how it compares to Awingu… and how Awingu can “adapt and improve” WVD.Read More
On May 9th, Awingu organizes the Digital Workplace Summit 2019 in the Ghelamco Arena (Ghent, Belgium). The event is completely free of charge and includes are reception and dinner, but places are limited and registrations are coming in at a high rate. Here are five reasons why you should attend!Read More
Our partner ProData Systems heard the requests of the people at the Lokeren General Hospital: they want their doctors and medical and administrative staff to work from anywhere with a simple, cost-effective and highly secure solution. It became apparent very quickly that Awingu was the perfect piece for this puzzle.
For its roughly 125 IT users, the municipality of Stabroek was looking for a way to let their aldermen, chiefs of staff and employees work from anywhere on any device. Read More
If you’ve ever seen a beverage dispensing or cooling machine in Sweden, there’s a very high chance that it is owned or maintained by Markiscity. They are one of the primary warehouse management subcontractors of large companies like Coca-Cola, Spendrups, Carlsberg and Swedish Match. After being hit by two consecutive ransomware attacks, they chose Awingu to make their data management more secure, and to arm themselves against another intrusion.Read More
Expectations of our “workspace” are evolving. The age-mix of businesses is shifting with a much bigger concentration of ‘millennials’. A study from PWC suggests 50% of the global workforce will be constituted of millennials. These millennials bring whole new expectations in flexibility, mobility, and BYOD – and these come on top of the overall business dynamics in the 21st century, resulting in the adoption of cloud services, AI-based. In parallel, businesses are constantly under pressure of cyber attacks.Read More
In this blog post, we’ll try to put some structure in RDS and VDI licensing and explain some of the main concepts and options. Just to be sure: by no means will this be a complete reference. Yes, even in this 2000+ words post, we will (need to) cut some corners.Read More
Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol has been around for 20 years, but even avid users still only have a vague understanding of the concept and its applications. In the Demystifying RDP series, we try to cover the basics.Read More
On Saturday, Feb 16th, 2019, ‘De Standaard’ reports on the investigation for the (Belgian) Federal Department of Justice. Together with the US and Ukraine, they closed down “xDedic”, a website selling logins and passwords of compromised servers around the world. Until 2016, the website was publicly available. When it started to get attention from different criminal investigations, they moved to the Darknet.Read More
This article was featured in Techworld on 25/01/2019. Svensk version: se nedan.
In an in-depth investigation into the IT security of Swedish companies, Awingu was able to identify 9.655 organizations that run a high risk of hacking. We did specific research on IP addresses that were connected to unprotected Remote Desktop Servers (based on the Remote Desktop Protocol). Microsoft’s RDP is a very popular server-based computing technology, but in its bare form, it offers insufficient protection. By implementing Awingu on top of RDP, you can greatly reduce the security risk of your IT environment.Read More