Remote Work Archives - Cameyo https://cameyo.com/tag/remote-work/ Windows Apps from the Browser for Remote and On-site Work Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:31:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://cameyo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Play-Black-150x150.png Remote Work Archives - Cameyo https://cameyo.com/tag/remote-work/ 32 32 Cameyo Expands Port Shield Technology to Further Protect Remote Workers from Ransomware and Brute Force Attacks https://cameyo.com/news/port-shield/ Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:58:26 +0000 https://cameyo.com/?post_type=news&p=6904 In addition to protecting against RDP vulnerabilities, Cameyo’s Port Shield now extends to HTTP/S ports as well - reducing the attack surface for remote workers by automatically keeping all RDP and HTTP/S ports closed, except when needed.

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Cameyo’s Port Shield Technology Increases Protection Against Cyber Attacks by Defending Both RDP and HTTP Ports 

CARY, N.C. – Oct. 7, 2020 – Cameyo, the Digital Workspace solution that boosts remote worker productivity by securely delivering Windows and internal web apps to any device from the browser without the need for VPNs, today announced it has expanded its Port Shield technology to increase protection against the rise in exploit, brute force, and ransomware attacks aimed at remote workers. In addition to protecting against RDP vulnerabilities, Cameyo’s Port Shield now extends to HTTP/S ports as well – reducing the attack surface for remote workers by automatically keeping all RDP and HTTP/S ports closed, except when needed.

Security firm Kaspersky recently revealed that the increase in remote work has driven a 10X increase in ransomware and brute force attacks in the first two quarters of 2020. And at Gartner’s Security & Risk Management Summit last month they announced their Top 10 Security Priorities for 2020-2021, with “Remote Workforce Security” as the #1 priority. Cameyo’s Port Shield technology was designed to combat the dramatic rise in threats which take advantage of the vulnerabilities that increase with the growth of remote work.

Providing Dynamic Protection Against Today’s Threats

“Some technologies currently being used to enable remote work were developed decades ago, and were designed for a world where remote work was the exception, not the widespread norm,” said Eyal Dotan, Founder and CTO of Cameyo. “Cameyo is a cloud-native Digital Workspace platform that was designed from the ground up with security at the foundation. The extension of our Port Shield technology to HTTP ports is the latest evolution of our core security functionality, designed to reduce your attack surface while still making it incredibly simple to securely deliver all of the applications your people need to be productive on any device.”

Extending Cameyo Port Shield’s capabilities to HTTP ports provides yet another layer of security for organizations that need to ensure their people have access to all of the business-critical apps they need to be productive while securing both the remote workers and the corporate network at the same time. Port Shield works by managing the Windows Firewall and keeping a server’s RDP and HTTP/S ports closed at all times, then dynamically opening them only for certain authenticated users, only as needed. 

“As organizations shift to a model where they must enable remote work on a permanent or hybrid basis for much of their workforce, their attack surface can grow significantly due to RDP and HTTP vulnerabilities,” said Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). “Cameyo’s Port Shield technology provides an additional layer of security, baked in at the core of the platform, enabling organizations to provide safe & secure access to business-critical applications on any device, without the need for third-party security solutions.”     

Relieving the Burden from VPNs

In the early days of the pandemic, many organizations defaulted to relying on VPNs for enabling remote work. VPNs work well when organizations have a certain percentage of their people who need to work remotely, when those people are utilizing IT-managed devices, and when there are firmly-enforced rules regarding USB keys and the use of work apps only.  But VPNs were never designed with the intent of enabling widespread remote work, especially when many of those remote workers are utilizing non-IT-managed devices on home networks. In today’s world of mass remote work, VPNs are effectively providing a secure tunnel for your people’s personal and potentially-infected devices to connect directly to your corporate network. 

Cameyo’s platform, with its enhanced Port Shield capabilities and its NoVPN technology, enables organizations to alleviate the pressure currently being put on VPNs by offloading the tasks that VPNs were not designed for in the first place. Cameyo lets IT deliver all of the business-critical apps their people need, on any device, without those apps needing to be installed on that device, and without that device having to connect to the corporate network. Organizations get simpler, more secure access to their apps on any device, and IT gets to relieve the pressure put on VPNs while reducing cost. 

Building on a Foundation of Security

Cameyo’s digital workspace was designed for the cloud with security at its core. Port Shield expands upon Cameyo’s foundation of security which protects customers by:

  • Enabling secure access to both Windows desktop and Intranet web apps from behind the corporate firewall without the cost and user-experience compromise of VPNs via Cameyo’s NoVPN technology
  • Delivering all applications over HTTPS
  • Separating applications from the OS to protect against corrupted machines
  • Utilizing multi-factor authentication and dynamic 110-character passwords
  • Ensuring session & user isolation
  • Automatically wiping data from Cameyo servers as each session ends

“For the modern digital workspace, security cannot be an afterthought,” said Andrew Miller, Co-Founder and CEO of Cameyo. “At Cameyo, it’s not just about securing the remote workload – it’s about securing the remote workers, who are more vulnerable and therefore introduce greater risk to any organization.”

Pricing and Availability

The expanded functionality of Cameyo Port Shield has been rolled out to all users of the Cameyo platform as of today, and is included at no additional cost. Additionally, the company’s open-source RDP monitoring tool RDPmon tool can be downloaded for free at https://cameyo.com/rdp-monitoring/ and its source code can be downloaded on GitHub at https://github.com/cameyo/rdpmon.

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About Cameyo

Cameyo is a cloud-native Digital Workspace solution that enables the secure delivery of Windows and internal web applications to any device from the browser without the need for VPNs. By enabling organizations to provide their people with access to the business-critical apps they need to stay productive from anywhere, Cameyo helps make Remote Work, work. Hundreds of enterprises and organizations utilize Cameyo’s Digital Workspace solution to deliver Windows and internal web applications to hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. To learn more, visit cameyo.com.

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Cameyo and ASG Africa Extend Virtual Application Delivery for Remote Work to Microsoft Azure Customers Throughout Africa & the Middle East https://cameyo.com/news/cameyo-extends-to-africa-with-microsoft-azure/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 10:00:02 +0000 https://cameyo.com/?post_type=news&p=6599 Customers Can Now Utilize Cameyo to Provide Access to Any Windows or Internal Web App on Any Device from Within Azure CARY, N.C. – June 17, 2020 – Cameyo, the virtual application delivery platform that delivers Windows and internal web applications to any device from the browser without the need for VPNs, today announced it […]

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Customers Can Now Utilize Cameyo to Provide Access to Any Windows or Internal Web App on Any Device from Within Azure

CARY, N.C. – June 17, 2020 – Cameyo, the virtual application delivery platform that delivers Windows and internal web applications to any device from the browser without the need for VPNs, today announced it has partnered with ASG Africa, a premier IT solutions and services provider, to make Cameyo available to all organizations throughout Africa and the Middle East on Microsoft Azure. Organizations who need to provide their people with secure access to Windows and internal web apps from the browser can now experience all of the benefits of Cameyo within their own instance of Azure. 

“ASG Africa has a long history of working with large enterprises to meet their digital transformation, remote work, and legacy application migration needs,” said Vaughn Atkins, Sales Manager at ASG Africa. “Cameyo’s virtual application delivery platform is a key enabler of all three of those trends, making it extremely simple and cost-productive to provide access to legacy applications on any device, from the browser. And as Azure becomes the cloud platform of choice for many organizations, this enables us to give our Azure customers – and those looking to move to Azure – the best possible experience with Cameyo.” 

Together, ASG Africa and Cameyo are helping organizations of all sizes enable:

  • Remote Work and the Modern Workplace – Whether organizations are looking for immediate solutions to enable fully-remote teams or long-term solutions that support a hybrid office/home workplace after COVID-19, Cameyo ensures that all employees maintain access to their business-critical applications from anywhere. And Cameyo’s NoVPN capabilities deliver both Windows and internal web apps to any device without the need for VPNs.  
  • Digital Transformation – As organizations shift to the cloud, they still need to provide people with access to the critical legacy Windows applications they need to stay productive – even if those apps haven’t been web-enabled. Unlike Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop as a Service (DaaS) products that take months to deploy and saddle organizations with ongoing cost and complexity, Cameyo can be deployed in hours for a fraction of the cost. 
  • Legacy Application Modernization – Cameyo enables Independent Software Providers (ISVs) to deliver their legacy software as a service with zero development. Cameyo also helps them automate the sales process by giving customers instant access to software free trials from the web with no downloads or installation required. 

 

Bring Your Own Azure

“Cameyo is a built-for-the-cloud virtual application delivery platform, and as such has always worked seamlessly in any environment,” said Andrew Miller, Co-Founder and CEO of Cameyo. “Organizations throughout MEA are adopting Azure to enable large-scale remote work today, but also to prepare for the ‘new normal’ after COVID-19. By extending our advanced features that were previously only available in our fully hosted service to Azure, ASG Africa’s customers can now experience the full cost savings, enhanced user experience, and infrastructure reduction benefits of Cameyo while bringing their own existing Azure cloud – or by working with ASG to move to Azure.”

Beginning today, ASG Africa customers can experience the following benefits of Cameyo:

  • Greater Control and Compliance – Simplified compliance for organizations in highly-regulated industries by utilizing Cameyo within their own instance of Azure.
  • Cost Savings – With Cameyo advanced provisioning, Azure customers have access to features like elasticity and usage optimization to dynamically spin servers up and down based on demand and automatically move servers into hibernation mode ensuring organizations don’t pay for 24/7 servers when they aren’t being used. 
  • Enhanced User Experience – Cameyo’s Session Sync technology enables a user’s settings and files follow them from session to session, ensuring a seamless user experience. And because Cameyo enables users to experience the full desktop version of their applications directly from the browser, users’ have nothing new to learn.
  • Infrastructure Reduction – Unlike VDI which increases the infrastructure you need to manage, and therefore the cost and complexity, Cameyo’s cloud-native platform reduces infrastructure and costs by up to 80% compared to Citrix/VDI. 
  • Increased Security – By separating applications from the OS and making them available via the browser, Cameyo helps ensure that malware on the user’s machine doesn’t have access to their application sessions. And Cameyo’s RDP Port Shield technology proactively protects customers from RDP vulnerabilities that can lead to brute force attacks and ransomware.

Getting Started

Any organization can get started with Cameyo in minutes by loading the applications they want to publish to their users to the Cameyo platform. Cameyo seamlessly integrates with Office 365, G Suite, Okta, Ping ID and most Single Sign-On (SSO) providers giving organizations the ability to manage authentication, permissions, users, and groups with no additional work. Once published, the organization’s users can securely access all of these legacy Windows apps from the browser, enabling them to utilize the apps on any device. Users can start work on one device and finish on another thanks to Cameyo’s Session Sync technology that provides data resiliency across sessions.  

Pricing and Availability

For organizations throughout MEA, Cameyo is available via ASG Africa immediately. For organizations looking to move to Azure, ASG Africa can get them set up on local instances of Azure depending on location. For organizations in South Africa, ASG Africa will be working with Tarsus on Demand, a world-class Indirect CSP provider, to provide a local version of Azure. Please contact ASG Africa by going to https://www.asg.africa.com/

About ASG Africa

ASG Africa helps its clients in areas such as Application Performance Management (APM) cloud computing, hybrid workspaces, and application virtualization. ASG Africa also helps clients navigate complex XP and Windows Server migrations, business and IT SLA management, executive management, governance and compliance, GDPR SOX and PCI DSS specific areas, business service management, SIEM solutions, advanced endpoint protection against malware and ransomware, mainframe performance analysis, data lineage, application discovery and understanding, and big data and document management solutions. For more information, visit https://www.asg.africa.com/   

About Cameyo

Cameyo is a cloud-native virtual application delivery platform that enables the secure delivery of Windows and internal web applications to any device from the browser without the need for VPNs. By enabling organizations to provide their people with access to the business-critical apps they need to stay productive from anywhere, Cameyo helps make Remote Work, work. Hundreds of enterprises and organizations utilize Cameyo’s virtual application delivery platform to deliver Windows and internal web applications to hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. To learn more, visit cameyo.com. 

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4 out of 10 Organizations Now Use Virtual Desktops or DaaS for Remote Work – But List Cost, Complexity, and Security as Issues https://cameyo.com/news/esg-report-of-digital-workspaces/ Wed, 03 Jun 2020 10:00:54 +0000 https://cameyo.com/?post_type=news&p=6580 New Survey from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Reveals Remote Work Solutions Are On The Rise, But Major Issues Hinder Long-Term Adoption CARY, N.C. – June 3, 2020 – Cameyo, the Virtual Application Delivery platform provider, today announced the results of a new survey and a report from IT analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), sponsored […]

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New Survey from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Reveals Remote Work Solutions Are On The Rise, But Major Issues Hinder Long-Term Adoption

CARY, N.C. – June 3, 2020 – Cameyo, the Virtual Application Delivery platform provider, today announced the results of a new survey and a report from IT analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), sponsored by Cameyo and other technology vendors, which reveals that, even though 4 out of 10 organizations are using virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or Desktop as a Service (DaaS) products to enable remote work, the top challenges those organizations experience with those products were cost, complexity, and security. The complete report can be downloaded for free here.

“With the dramatic increase in organizations that have enacted mandatory remote work policies, the demand for remote access to critical applications has skyrocketed,” said Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). “Organizations need solutions that can be deployed quickly and cost-effectively while also ensuring security. These survey results show that, despite the benefits of VDI and DaaS, those who have deployed those technologies continue to be challenged with the overall cost, management complexity, and security issues of those technologies.” 

High Demand Before COVID-19, But Not a Long-Term Solution

The ESG survey shows that demand for remote work solutions like VDI and DaaS was already high prior to COVID-19. And with conservative estimates stating that 25-30% of workers will never go back to an office setting (and aggressive estimates saying 82% may continue to work remotely), nearly every organization is in search of the right long-term digital workspace solution for remote work. 

But the report indicates that further adoption of VDI and DaaS for remote work could be hindered if the challenges that existing customers face aren’t addressed. The ESG survey reveals that organizations currently using VDI and DaaS list cost, complexity, and security as their primary challenges and concerns, making it clear that – in the current pandemic landscape where organizations need to deploy solutions quickly, securely, and cost-effectively – neither VDI or DaaS fits the bill.

A New Category of Remote Work Solutions Emerges

VDI is pre-cloud technology, and DaaS was the evolution of that legacy technology into a cloud environment. The next evolution of these technologies forms a new category, Virtual Application Delivery, which consists of platforms that were purpose-built for the cloud to enable remote work by delivering digital workspaces for productivity. Virtual Application Delivery platforms like Cameyo are a critical component of these digital workspaces, enable organizations to provide their people with access to all of their business-critical applications from any device, from the browser, without VPNs. This enables organizations to empower all of their employees to be just as productive from home as they would be in the office, all without the high cost, complexity, and security concerns of VDI and DaaS. 

The benefits of Virtual Application Delivery over VDI and DaaS include:

  • Deploys in Hours, Not Weeks or Months Especially in today’s environment where IT departments need to support remote workers immediately, solutions that can be quickly and reliably deployed are critical. VDI and DaaS deployments often take months to deploy, whereas Virtual Application Delivery platforms can have organizations up and running within hours – like this large energy company that was able to provide their employees with access to their critical applications in just 3 hours
  • Significantly Reduced Costs When compared with VDI products like Citrix, Virtual Application Delivery platforms can save organizations up to 75% in upfront infrastructure costs and ongoing licensing fees. In addition, the ESG report reveals several hidden costs of VDI and DaaS that increase the total lifetime cost. For example, the ESG research also revealed that 90% of VDI and DaaS implementations require more than 10 full-time employees (FTEs) to support it on an ongoing basis. Virtual Application Delivery, on the other hand, can be deployed and managed by just one person, with almost no technical skills required. 
  • Improved Security Posture For many organizations, VDI and DaaS entail an entirely new subset of IT infrastructure that has to be licensed, administered and maintained – which is not only expensive and resource-intensive – but it increases your attack surface. Virtual Application Delivery platforms like Cameyo enable you to deliver any Windows or internal web apps to any device, from the browser without the security concerns of patching and managing legacy infrastructure. In addition, Cameyo’s NoVPN capabilities enable organizations to give remote workers secure access to Windows desktop and Intranet web apps from behind the corporate firewall without the cost and user-experience compromise of VPNs so that people can access business-critical applications from anywhere in the world just as productively as if they were in the office.

“The complexity, cost, and security concerns around legacy VDI and DaaS products make them untenable for many organizations who are preparing long-term solutions for remote work,” said Andrew Miller, Co-Founder and CEO of Cameyo. “When it comes to protecting your people while also enabling them to be productive from any device, anywhere – VDI and DaaS are not up to the task, and this survey reveals that the cost, complexity, and security concerns aren’t worth the risk. Cameyo pioneered the category of built-for-the-cloud Virtual Application Delivery platforms, and enables organizations of any size to provide all of their people – regardless of location – with secure access to their business-critical applications on any device, from the browser.” 

About the Research Methodology and Demographics

This research was based on a survey of 354 IT decision makers in the U.S. and Canada, with the survey executed between February 25, 2020 and March 8, 2020 by IT analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). These IT decision makers are from organizations with 250 or more employees, with 33% of respondents at midmarket companies (between 250 and 999 employees) and 67% of respondents at enterprise companies (1,000 or more employees). The complete report can be downloaded for free here.

About Cameyo

Cameyo is a cloud-native virtual application delivery platform that enables the secure delivery of Windows and internal web applications to any device from the browser without the need for VPNs. By enabling organizations to provide their people with access to the business-critical apps they need to stay productive from anywhere, Cameyo helps make Remote Work, work. Cameyo enables organizations to provide their people with seamless access to their Windows and internal web apps on any device, from any HTML5 browser, to optimize productivity. Hundreds of enterprises and organizations utilize Cameyo’s virtual application delivery platform to deliver Windows applications to hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. To learn more, visit cameyo.com

 

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Tutoring Facility Establishes Remote Learning Program with Cameyo to Keep Serving Students During COVID-19 https://cameyo.com/news/tutoring-facility-establishes-remote-learning-program-with-cameyo-to-keep-serving-students-during-covid-19/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:56:50 +0000 https://cameyo.com/?post_type=news&p=6414 Frontrunner Learning Centres are a respected Australian afterschool tutoring and learning franchise that help students from grades 1 through 12 reach their potential academically. Frontrunner provides a unique free assessment to help determine each student’s needs, then customises a suite of both online and offline resources to meet those unique needs. Currently, Frontrunner operates a […]

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Frontrunner Learning Centres are a respected Australian afterschool tutoring and learning franchise that help students from grades 1 through 12 reach their potential academically. Frontrunner provides a unique free assessment to help determine each student’s needs, then customises a suite of both online and offline resources to meet those unique needs. Currently, Frontrunner operates a network of six learning centres throughout Australia.

Frontrunner has its own suite of online learning tools that it provides as part of its learning programs, but those were designed to complement the students’ in-person tutoring sessions at one of their six centres. So when the COVID-19 outbreak occurred and mandatory quarantines went into place, preventing students from attending, Frontrunner found itself in a distressing position.

“Overnight, nearly 100 percent of the parents called to cancel their students’ next term and ongoing tuition,” said Jeffrey Quinn, Principal and Founder of Frontrunner Learning Centres. “Without being able to attend their individualised tutoring sessions at our centres, it didn’t make sense for them to continue paying for our program. Just like that, our business was gone.”

Establishing a Remote Learning Program

Frontrunner immediately realised it needed to establish a completely remote learning program so that it could continue to provide its students with ongoing education while also protecting them throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. They not only needed the ability to schedule direct tutoring sessions with students over the video, but also the ability to provide all of Frontrunner’s software applications – some of which are proprietary – to all students, no matter what devices they were using at home.

“Our entire business runs on a series of desktop applications and paper-based activities, and without them, we are not able to deliver our unique education programs to our students,” said Mr. Quinn.

For the ability to quickly and securely deliver their legacy applications to all of their students on any device, Frontrunner turned to Cameyo.

“We were able to go from starting our trial, to getting it set up, and running our applications on Cameyo all within a day – with no technical expertise,” said Mr. Quinn. “I went from losing all of my students to being able to deliver the rest of the term’s programs virtually. This was a huge relief as our parent’s pay in advance so we could give them the sessions they paid for already plus show them that, through the simplicity of Cameyo, their children could still be helped to get in front and stay in front academically.”

Frontrunner is now hosting all of its education applications on Cameyo, making it simple for students to access those applications no matter what device they are using from home.

“Simplicity is key because if the delivery system adds complexity to the student’s experience, that could easily distract from the learning process,” said Mr. Quinn. “But it really couldn’t be simpler with Cameyo. All I do now is provide students with a link to the applications they need to access via Cameyo, and they can use the full desktop version of the application from their browser. I can then walk them through the lesson virtually over Zoom, all while knowing they have seamless access to the applications they need for those lessons.”

The Results

By quickly responding to the crisis and launching its entire learning program as a distance learning service with Cameyo, Frontrunner was able to go back to all of the parents who canceled and let them know their students would be able to finish their semesters online. Within days a large percentage of parents had re-enrolled their students, and more are signing back up each day.

“Without Cameyo, we would have lost our entire business,” said Mr. Quinn. “Even though we’re still working on getting the rest of our students back, we wouldn’t have been able to offer the online program at all without Cameyo’s platform. Cameyo literally saved my business.”

In addition to helping to deliver an online learning experience in the near-term during the COVID-19 crisis, Mr. Quinn has also realized a new opportunity that Cameyo can help the centre pursue.

“First, we plan to expand the use of Cameyo out to our franchisees to help protect them from losing their students as well,” said Mr. Quinn. “And I also plan to use Cameyo to offer new remote learning programmes moving forward, which enables me to open up a new revenue opportunity by serving students who can’t physically make it to one of our locations.”

“Frontrunner Learning’s Studybetter TeleTutoring and Homeschooling franchises – with the help of Cameyo – will keep our students in front of their screens and their online schoolwork so they can stay ahead,” said Mr. Quinn.

If this sounds like it would benefit your students, please contact Mr. Quinn at jeff@frontrunnerlearning.com.au.

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Cameyo Introduces NoVPN to Provide Remote Workers with Secure Access to Internally-Hosted Web Apps Without a VPN https://cameyo.com/news/cameyo-introduces-novpn-to-provide-remote-workers-with-secure-access-to-internally-hosted-web-apps-without-a-vpn/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:00:09 +0000 https://cameyo.com/?post_type=news&p=6164 Introducing Cameyo NoVPN, a new solution that empowers organizations to give remote workers secure access to internally-hosted web apps without requiring a VPN. This enables organizations to give remote workers secure access to both Windows desktop and Intranet web apps from behind the corporate firewall without the cost and user-experience compromise of VPNs so that people can access business-critical applications from anywhere in the world just as productively as if they were in the office.

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Cameyo Expands Beyond Desktop Apps to Enable Organizations to Provide Remote Workers Secure Access to Web Apps on Any Device 

CARY, N.C. – April 7, 2020 – Cameyo, the cloud-native virtual application delivery platform that delivers Windows and web applications to any device from the browser, today announced Cameyo NoVPN, a new solution that empowers organizations to give all of their remote workers secure access to internally-hosted web apps without requiring a VPN. This enables organizations to give remote workers secure access to Windows desktop and Intranet web apps from behind the corporate firewall without the cost and user-experience compromise of VPNs so that people can access business-critical applications from anywhere in the world just as productively as if they were in the office. Cameyo NoVPN

Cameyo has long enabled organizations to deliver Windows desktop applications to any device from the browser without the cost and complexity of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop as a Service (DaaS) products. Today, its new NoVPN solution extends those capabilities to internally-hosted web applications that employees can typically only access when they are physically in the office or connected to the corporate network.   

“The surge in remote work due to COVID-19 has driven a significant increase in demand for solutions that enable remote workers secure access to business applications from any device while working from home,” said Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). “The legacy VPN approach creates a choke point for corporate networks and often results in a poor user experience. Cameyo’s NoVPN technology enables employees to securely access their web apps without a VPN while maintaining the business’s security posture.”

The Case Against VPNs – Security Issues & Lost Productivity

The urgent increase in remote work has led to a situation where millions of people are working from home on their personal devices. In these instances, the use of VPNs simply provides a secure link between people’s personal devices – which are not corporate-managed and could be infected with malware – and the corporate network. 

“When dealing with potentially compromised personal devices, VPNs essentially enable the computing version of COVID-19,” said Eyal Dotan, Co-Founder and CTO of Cameyo and author or multiple Internet security patents. “Just like one infected person coming into the office could infect everyone in that building, introducing even one person’s infected personal computer to the corporate network could end up infecting everything attached to the network. So creating a secure link between people’s homes and the corporate network actually introduces new security concerns during this massive increase in remote work when people are using personal devices that may be infected.”

Security issues aside, VPNs have another major flaw – the user experience. First, there’s the added step and delay involved every time a user logs on, as they need to wait for the VPN to connect before they can start working. Then once connected to the VPN, some of the biggest complaints users have with VPNs are “lag” or connection speed issues, as well as frequent disconnection issues that require re-authentication. 

“Anytime a technology introduces frustrations and hurdles – rather than removing them – productivity is deeply impacted,” said Andrew Miller, Co-Founder and CEO of Cameyo. “VPNs are not the solution for remote work from either a security or a productivity perspective.” 

The Benefits of the Intranet, Delivered Over the Internet

Cameyo’s NoVPN technology eliminates the need for VPNs. Just as Cameyo’s virtual application delivery platform provides people with secure access to the full desktop version of their critical Windows applications from the browser, Cameyo NoVPN does the same for internally-hosted web apps that need to be accessed from behind the firewall. 

Cameyo NoVPN simply gives remote workers access to a browser behind the firewall, so they can easily access their company’s internally-hosted web apps via Chrome or any HTML5 browser, but with the added security of accessing those from behind the corporate firewall. NoVPN utilizes Cameyo’s Self-Hosted service, which can be installed in minutes on any Windows Server 2016 or 2019 without extra components or prerequisites. Once installed, the IT admin simply generates a NoVPN URL from their new server’s page in Cameyo’s cloud portal. Remote workers can then access the company’s web from this URL (or set a shortcut on their desktop), just as they would if they were within the corporate network. The result is a seamless user experience without connectivity or network performance issues which are common to VPNs.

Cameyo NoVPN vs. VPN

“We work with many organizations that are urgently enabling large-scale remote work capabilities so that they can protect their people during this turbulent period. At the same time, they need to ensure that those remote workers can stay productive,” said Justin Noreikis, Atex account director for Asia. “VPN infrastructure is currently being overwhelmed and we see Cameyo as an effective way to securely and seamlessly deliver Windows applications to any device without the cost and complexity of VDI. The Cameyo NoVPN capabilities will also enable us to quickly and securely address the requirements of our customers who need to provide remote access to internally-hosted web apps.”

Key Benefits of Cameyo NoVPN

Cameyo NoVPN enables organizations to empower remote workers with:

  • Increased Security – By separating remote workers’ personal devices from the corporate network while still giving them access to the applications they need, Cameyo NoVPN eliminates the risk of people’s devices infecting the network. 
  • Improved Productivity – By eliminating the frustrations people experience with VPNs, Cameyo NoVPN enables remote workers to be far more productive without lag or disruptions to connectivity. 
  • Better User Experience – Cameyo NoVPN doesn’t require the user to install anything or change their behavior in any way, providing a seamless user experience. 

Pricing and Availability

Cameyo NoVPN is available immediately and is included in the platform’s monthly subscription fees. Cameyo NoVPN utilizes the Cameyo Self-Hosted service, enabling organizations to deliver web apps from behind their own firewall. Full pricing can be found here.

About Cameyo

Cameyo is a cloud-native virtual application delivery platform that enables the secure delivery of Windows desktop applications to any device from any browser. By enabling organizations to provide their people with access to the business-critical apps they need to stay productive from anywhere, Cameyo helps make Remote Work, work. Cameyo enables organizations to provide their people with seamless access to their Windows and web apps on any device, from any HTML5 browser. Hundreds of enterprises and organizations utilize Cameyo’s virtual application delivery platform to deliver Windows applications to tens of thousands of users worldwide. To learn more, visit cameyo.com. 

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