The encryption type and level can be manipulated via Group Policies using the ADM templates provided with VMware View. PCoIP display protocol bundled with VMWare View offers support for AES-128 bit by default but it can be overridden with Salsa20-256. For that reason is essential that display protocols implement a cipher that performs encryption and decryption of the data. If the display protocol stream is intercepted or captured it is possible to render the screen as seen by the user. The display protocol is responsible for providing users with a graphical interface to a desktop hosted in the datacenter. In a properly designed and implemented VDI solution the only data that should leave the datacenter is the display protocol. Beyond consolidation advantages from a capacity standpoint, this centralization and consolidation process moved the high security perimeters from the edge of the organizations to the datacenter.īYOC (Bring your Own Computer) and the introduction of unmanaged devices (tablets etc…) hindered organization’s wide implementation of security techniques.īecause all the information that matters is now in the datacenters, administrators and engineers started spending less time and money on the datacenter outer side.

With the introduction of hosted desktops (VDI) organizations were able to centralize and consolidate application processing and data.

Transport Layer Security (TLS), Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and IPsec were widely used to secure data transmissions and still are.

During the client/server era the ability to encrypt data between datacenter and applications was indispensible to many organizations. Security in IT environments is an incessant quest nowadays.

Pcoip protocol encryption