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Security

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LivePC's, as a computer management solution, are poised to revolutionize the IT service industry. They leverage state-of-the-art virtualization to allow a single IT professional to manage and lock down numerous personal computers, while providing an unprecedented level of security, whether the computers are desktops or laptops in the central office, branch office, or remote home office.

The Bare Metal Edition of the moka5 Engine directly runs on the PC hardware and hence will not be affected by Windows' security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, an Active-Directory plugin is available to turn our Bare Metal Live PC Engine into a LivePC kiosk that allows any authorized personnel to log in and access the LivePCs he or she is entitled to. The moka5 Engine automatically fetches the LivePC and runs it on the local machine. Many optimizations such as caching, prefetching, and demand paging are used to make the experience seamless. Note that the LivePC kiosk is stateless and therefore field replaceable.

Security, machine lock down, auto-healing, and no desk side visits: LivePCs revert to their pristine state with every reboot, so spyware, key loggers, and even rootkits installed by the user will vanish upon shutdown. All changes made to the LivePCs' system state are eliminated, while keeping the users' profiles, preferences and data persistent. Tools installed inside Windows cannot provide this level of protection; virtualization has this ability because it fixes the problem "outside the box". This technique also fixes the annoying problem that Windows degrades on its own with time, even if the user has installed no software on it.

To further protect the user, various tools and utilities can be configured and integrated inside the LivePC. For example, our Fearless Browser includes:

  • OpenDNS for phishing protection
  • Tor for anonymized browsing
  • Encryption
Organizations can configure LivePCs according to their security policy and distribute those to their users. Now the users cannot bypass the policy and the organizations and the users are protected.

If mobility is a requirement, LivePCs can be secured by putting them on a hardware encrypted USB flash drive. User will be required to enter a password before launching the LivePC environment.

If you want to see how moka5 LivePC technology can benefit your organization, please contact us at [email protected]. Our professional services team can customize a solution that will fit your needs.

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