IGEL Business Continuity
IGEL Business Continuity offers a defense in depth solution that enables compromised Windows endpoints to be clean booted to IGEL OS in minutes. Utilizing the same hardware, IGEL OS can be booted with an IGEL Dual Boot partition or IGEL USB Boot, enabling employees to securely connect to online services such as Office 365, Teams, Zoom, and business services. With Business Continuity Specialist services, organizations can rapidly regain control of compromised endpoints when a disruptive event occurs to keep operations moving and minimize the cost of an outage.
Defense in Depth Business Continuity
Defense in Depth cybersecurity strategy uses multiple layers of security controls to protect data and systems from threats. Rather than relying on a single defense mechanism, DiD ensures that if one layer is compromised, others are still in place to mitigate risks. IGEL Business Continuity offers a similar multi-layer approach for rapid endpoint recovery including IGEL Dual Boot, IGEL USB Boot and specialist services.
IGEL Business Continuity Dual Boot
IGEL Business Continuity Dual Boot is a protected IGEL partition alongside the Windows partition. It can be installed with Windows management tools, no-touch on an endpoint. In the event the Windows OS is compromised, the IGEL Dual Boot enables the user to clean boot to secure IGEL OS, operations can quickly reinstate secure connection to communication and business services.
IGEL Business Continuity USB Boot
IGEL USB Boot is a preconfigured IGEL image on a dedicated USB drive distributed to the user and set up with IT specialist services in advance. In the event the hard disk on the compromised endpoint fails, IGEL Business Continuity USB Boot enables IT to clean boot a compromised Windows endpoint to IGEL OS, retrieve the latest updates from IGEL UMS management to securely reconnect to communication and business services.
IGEL Business Continuity Services
An IGEL Business Continuity Specialist will assist in setting up the required IGEL infrastructure and configuration of the endpoint image. Depending on the use case, business unit, or location of users, different requirements may arise for the endpoint, such as authentication support, virtual desktop clients, collaboration tools, and more. The specialist will work with the IT team to define and test the image and will participate in endpoint recovery exercises at pre-set appointments throughout the year.
Enhance Endpoint Resilience and Minimize Downtime with IGEL
Clean-Boot Blue Screen Endpoints
When ransomware strikes, the Windows operating system is typically altered to contain malicious code. IGEL Business Continuity bypasses the compromised Windows OS by booting directly into a clean IGEL OS environment. This allows administrators to swiftly reconnect users to business apps and essential online services like Office 365, Teams, and Zoom. In tandem, IT can decide on the best course of action— whether re-imaging, replacing, or transitioning those endpoints to IGEL OS to prevent future attacks. As part of the IGEL Preventative Security Model™, IGEL OS operates as a read-only system with no local data storage. This reduces the attack surface, eliminating vulnerabilities that bad actors often exploit, mitigating endpoint attack risks while supporting a Zero Trust security model. IGEL OS is a more secure alternative to Windows on the endpoint.
Work-from-Home Events
Snow, storms, floods, fires, and transport strikes—there are many reasons why office-based workers might not be able to reach their workplace and devices. In these scenarios, IGEL Business Continuity provides an ’emergency break glass’ option. Employees can use their personal x86 64-bit devices to boot cleanly into IGEL OS, gaining secure access to company resources. The Preventative Security Model™ at the core of IGEL OS ensures that no company data can be copied to the employee’s device. Since no changes are written by IGEL OS to the device’s hard disk, the native operating system stays intact.
Rapidly regain control
In an era of increasing IT disruptions and cybersecurity risk. IGEL Business Continuity provides a secure, cost-effective, and defense in depth solution that ensures operations amidst a security incident and unplanned downtime. Include IGEL Business Continuity as a core element of a comprehensive business continuity plan to enhance endpoint resilience and minimize downtime.
What Our Customers Say
In the event of an IT outage
“IGEL is also assisting us from an ongoing business resilience perspective. IGEL OS is a simple solution – which comes on a thumb size USB drive – to get around the security issues of using shared equipment. In the event of an outage, we provide colleagues with a IGEL USB Boot drive each which they insert into a PC, IGEL OS boots up directly, with a network connection then established to our datacenter, so Citrix can be accessed.”
Kevin McVitie
Technician, IT Service Operations
Phoenix Group
IGEL to the rescue after a malware hit
“Our client took a significant hit from malware and then IGEL came to the rescue. Within a few hours, we had an entire department up and running on the IGEL Linux OS, and because we didn’t have to wipe the machines’ data, integrity on the hardware was maintained.”
Robert Hammond
Vice President of Sales
A2U
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