Similar, but arguably less complicated. Just a link, and executes a browser in a remote session, you do what you do, and then close the session and the session expires. I'm not wedded to the idea. But I'm trying to figure out a way to use all this excess datacenter capacity.
Alex Eckelberry www.eckelberry.com 727-644-8830 Sent from my iPhone There will be typos > On Jun 10, 2014, at 10:55 AM, "Rod Trent" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sounds a bit like Spoon… > > http://spoon.net/ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Alex Eckelberry > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 10:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] a "secure browser" > > To the list, > > I've been noodling an idea for a while and I was curious what your thoughts > might be on this. Feel free to shoot holes, I’m still working it out. > > At one of the companies I'm involved with, Runaware, we have massive excess > datacenter capacity, with large Citrix farms hosting software demos (our > primary business). > > Recently, a large corporate client came to us and asked us to create a > special Citrix instance for them, allowing their people to safely surf the > web, do web conferences, etc. through our datacenters. We installed a web > filter for them, set them up and they are happy. This is all done through > HTML 5, so it's seamless. It’s basically a sandboxed session – once the > session is over, it’s over. > > Which brings me to my idea -- a "secure browser". This is a shortcut to a > browser that would launch in our Citrix datacenter, running everything > safely, outside of the firewall. An admin would deploy this secure browser > link onto user desktops. Users would be instructed to use the secure browser > for external surfing. > > It doesn't require the Citrix plug-in, since we use HTML 5. So to the user, > it's seamless, not requiring any downloads, etc. (we could use RDP but it's > just not fast enough for graphics and other complex apps). > > Thoughts? > > Alex Eckelberry > > >
