Don’t Let Your Signage Be Your Security Blind Spot

I recall a few years ago buying a new car, it was a Hyundai Coupe, I’d never seen one before and thought I’d get something different. As soon as I got the key and drove it, I saw them all over the place!

Not so unique after all.

This phenomenon is called ‘Intentional Blindness’ or ‘Perceptual Blindness’, when we don’t notice something in our field of view because we are busy focusing on something else.

I think this is akin to the pervasiveness of Digital Signage; it is everywhere we simply don’t see it.

Until it goes wrong…

Restaurants, hotels, hospitals, shop windows, high streets, train stations, airports, corporate buildings, to name a few, all use and rely on Digital Signage. It is critical that these services are protected and reliable.

Digital Signage is everywhere, and the consequences of an outage can be huge.

The host OS for Digital Signage needs to be resilient, reliable, centrally managed and Secure; this is where IGEL comes in.

Introducing the IGEL Digital Signage App

It is our belief that prevention is better than cure when it comes to a secure managed operating system and applications, frequent disruptive software updates are time consuming, cause downtime and add a burden on IT teams.

The traditional model of monitor, detect, remediate is out of date, complex and prone to errors. At IGEL we have taken a different approach.

IGEL OS is a centrally managed read only Linux operating system. Its modular, secure by design, read-only OS with a chain-of trust (multiple checks happen during startup to make sure no code has changed), only allows trusted code to execute, effectively removing the need for additional endpoint agents. IGEL OS has also been designed to fail gracefully and boot to a last known good configuration, making recovery much faster, making IGEL OS the perfect companion for your Digital Displays.

It’s what IGEL does. For a deep dive on this, check out the IGEL Preventative Security Model™ here.

The IGEL Digital Signage app.

The IGEL Digital Signage app allows you to quickly configure a device to become a digital sign in a few simple clicks. Simply deploy the app, configure it to run your desired resolution and point it to your content, be it local, WEB or Video.

Running the IGEL Digital Signage app completely removes the user interface from the device securing the device further, no need for keyboards or mice, everything is configured and managed centrally.

IGEL OS will absolutely run on hardware with light requirements you can also run IGEL OS on hardware which have limited resources, such a device with only 2GB RAM, allowing you to re-purpose and extend the life of existing or older devices.

10 Reasons IGEL OS is great for Digital Signage.

• Centrally Managed
• Secure by design
• No need for additional agents
• Small Footprint
• Read Only OS
• Only allowed trusted and digitally signed code to run
• Kiosk mode displaying your digital content
• Fail gracefully and restore quickly
• Scalable

Running your Digital Signage on IGEL OS coupled with the IGEL Universal Management Suite will give you a secure, centrally managed and, most importantly of all, a reliable Digital Signage solution.

Want to know more?

Secure Digital Signage with IGEL: https://www.igel.com/secure-digital-signage-with-igel-os/

Get the IGEL Digital Signage app here: https://app.igel.com/

Learn more about configuring the Digital Signage App on IGEL OS: https://kb.igel.com/en/igel-apps/current/configuring-digital-signage-on-igel-os