In today’s ever-evolving threat landscape, ensuring the security of endpoints and cloud workspaces is not just essential but a strategic imperative for enterprises. Enter IGEL – the epitome of comprehensive preventative endpoint security. Here are 10 plus one compelling reasons why IGEL stands tall as the ultimate choice for securing your endpoints across VMware, Citrix VDI, and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) cloud workspaces....

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Aaron Banner
Co-host: Chris Feeney

IGEL’s Preventative Security Model™ provides a secure endpoint OS for your use case.

It’s clear from the headlines that today’s approach to endpoint security isn’t working: take your OS, install antivirus, the latest XDR and DLP, make a lot of settings, harden that with custom scripts, install your applications, keep updating those applications and the OS and the AV and DLP….. and hope that all these steps keep the wolf from the door and the ransomware out of your systems.  Does your business financial data, personal health information or any other data feel secure?

With many of today’s workloads moving from the endpoint to SaaS, DaaS, VDI or being accessed through secure browsers, and many organizations looking at how to apply Zero Trust, isn’t it time to re-evaluate the endpoint?

What if you could put an endpoint OS into your workforce’s hands that was designed for the cloud-first world that doesn’t need high levels of care and feeding to remain healthy? Something that is more robust by its nature, that had built-in preventative components or measures, as in “Prevention is better than cure.”?

IGEL OS applies a number of core principles that make it a secure choice as an endpoint OS – the Preventative Security Model™.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

Join Seb and I as we look at 2023 in the IGEL Community.  We talk all things, good bacd and ugly.

We then get into the details about IGEL rebranding, and of course, everyone's favorite topic - IGEL Disrupt 2024.


Host: Barry Browne
Host: Sebastien Perusat

IT admins are having to deal with many challenges on the rocky road to digital transformation. The importance of security, cloud adoption, cost savings, and the rapid evolution of SaaS-based applications is driving organizations to a hybrid workspace that requires different approaches to how endpoints are deployed, used, managed, and controlled.

While the demand for applications is increasing, organizations are choosing to deploy a variety of platforms that bring together a hybrid mix of on-premises, virtual, and cloud-based workspaces in their environments. Whereas users expect more flexibility to work when and where they prefer, on their endpoint devices of choice with applications that ‘just work’.

This shift towards cloud-based workspaces promotes a SaaS approach to deploy applications, which combines a number of components to provide expanded functionality as a service. Therefore, it has become vital to deploy tools that allow organizations to not only get an inventory of their used applications but also to understand how they are being deployed and used in their environments.

Stratusphere UX monitors application performance by providing detailed metrics and diagnostics data that reveal blind spots to support IT teams and CIOs in making data-driven decisions.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Jaime Reynolds

This week, Seb and I nerd out a little bit about the upcoming F1 race in Las Vegas.  Sure to be a mess!

On top of that, we also take time to discuss the official IGEL KB, vs the community-moderated Github Docs repository.

With the new Slack client comes new woes.  Not to worry, we have Seb coming to the rescue with some awesome new workflows that will be introduced to the community in the coming weeks.  Listen to the episode to get that sneak peek.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our American listeners, and happy Nikolaus day to our German audience.

Host: Barry Browne
Co-Host: Sebastien Perusat

p.s.  Here is the spelling of the IGEL abbreviation.

Intelligente Gesamtlösung in der Mikroelektronik

The IGEL community is getting ready to celebrate its sixth anniversary, so it is hard to believe that we are over 11,000 members strong!

Join Seb and I during this episode where we talk about the community, community events, rugby, and of course IGEL releases, features, and functionality.

Host: Barry Browne
Co-Host: Sebastien Perusat

The principle of ‘waste not, want not’ was first declared 300 years ago. It is a reasonable idea, to avoid wasteful use of resources and provide for a more secure future. However, the principle has lost ground; the IT environment being one example. A spending study by Flexera reports underutilization or wasted IT spending of 36 percent for desktop software, 33 percent for data center software, 32 percent for SaaS and 32 percent for IaaS/PaaS.

The study confirms that enterprises continue to spend needless dollars and use precious IT time, loading up their hardware endpoint devices with up to a dozen pieces of software – and required agents – before the end user can even work productively with the device. It also confirms some of this software spend never even makes it to the desktop.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

We are back from an unintentional summer hiatus of the IGEL community podcast.  Join Seb and I as we walk through the various changes within IGEL leadership.

We also dive into some great technical content (REST API, PSIGEL), and some other awesome nerdiness.

Host: Barry Browne
Host Sebastien Perusat


Links:  
https://github.com/IGEL-Community/PSIGEL
https://videos.igelcommunity.com/tech-qa-with-chris-fleck-citrix-vice-president-technical-fellow-and-psigel-powershell-module-for-igel-with-falk-heiland-igel-vip/

From pension funds to healthcare providers, ransomware is still finding plenty of victims. After a post-pandemic drop, the rate of ransomware is accelerating. Two groups getting attention are CIOp and BlackCat (ALPHV). Cl0p’s MOVEit Transfer hack to date has affected 15 million people and 121 organizations, including two large pension funds, CalPERS and CalSTRS. BlackCat (ALPHV), skilled at exfiltration, threatened to leak photos and sensitive data of a plastic surgeon’s patients and, according to a Check Point report, previously leaked patients’ photos and medical records after an attack against American healthcare provider LVHN earlier this year.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Guest: Jason Mafera

Bring power and performance to your hybrid workforce with the beautifully designed HP Elite mt645 Mobile Thin Client. The fast, efficient AMD Ryzen™ processor combined with enterprise-level security and flexible manageability elevate your day-to-day.

Effectively work in the office or remotely with advanced networking options and premium features. Get long-term productivity and tackle heavy workloads with the AMD Ryzen™ 5000 series processor and varied connectivity options.

Get peace-of-mind with premium features that help protect your device from the BIOS to the browser. Designed for hybrid environments with firmware TPM 2.0 hardware-based encryption keys and other versatile security options.

Durably designed with a refined aesthetic, carry this striking mobile thin client with confidence. The sturdy chassis can withstand daily wear and tear and undergoes MIL-STD testing. Keep it clean with common household cleaning wipes.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

In waving goodbye to our hardware business, shifting to a subscription model, and bringing to market our ground-breaking COSMOS platform, IGEL is setting the course towards a promising future that is rich with innovation. The narrative unfolding within IGEL Ready mirrors this pattern of advancement and transformation.

The growing IGEL Ready ecosystem, comprised of the industry’s best hardware and software partners, is a point of pride and offers a strong foundation for future growth and innovation. As we continue to down this path with our 130+ IGEL Ready partners, IGEL is optimizing the program to align with our collective goals and objectives more closely.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

With the release of the IGEL COSMOS platform, there was bound to be some confusion around COSMOS, what it is, and why should I care.

In this podcast Sebastien and Barry walk through the top handful of misunderstandings taken directly from the IGEL Community, and real-world customer scenarios.

Host: Barry Browne
Cohost: Sebastien Persuat

IGEL and Citrix have enjoyed a strong technical and marketing alliance within end-user computing for decades. The latest evidence of this is IGEL integrating the Citrix Gateway plugin into the IGEL OS for direct access to Citrix Endpoint Analysis.

This integration in IGEL OS is unique and supports our joint customers with easy, direct access so they can run device checks centrally from the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) management console without requiring any further plugin permission or installation.

I was going to write a long detailed episode description for this episode.  But then I remembered the first rule of Fight Club.

If you know you know.

Thanks to our guests on this weeks show
XenTegra Global CTO: Moin Khan
XenTegra India: Indrajeet Ghorpade

In this episode, Seb and I will take the top handful of questions that we see in the community and attempt to answer them! We cover OS 5, OS 10, OS 11, and of course Cosmos.

If you are curious about the upgrade process from IGEL OS 11 to IGEL OS 12/Cosmos, then this episode is for you!

If you are curious about what happens to your endpoint when subscriptions lapse, then this episode is for you!

If you are curious about what was discussed in our hot new segment, 'Seb teaches Barry German', then this episode is for you!

If you are curious about what other questions are discussed, then this episode is for you.

I hope you see a theme here.

This episode is for you.

Shownotes:  My Licenses Have Expired - What Can I Do? (igel.com)

First Disrupt in Nashville, then COSMOS goes GA.  As a result is no shortage of topics for us to discuss on this week's podcast.  With so much IGEL news out there, somehow, we still managed to go down a rabbit hole and introduced a whole new segment.

Seb teaches Barry German.

When we are not learning German, we recap IGEL Disrupt, and talk about all things COSMOS.

Host: Barry Browne
Co-Host: Sebastien Persuat

Join us live from IGEL Disrupt in Nashville, as we talk all things EUC, and the disruptive nature of IGEL OS.

In this episode, we were lucky to get some face time with IGEL CEO Jed Ayres, and IGEL SVP Irfan Khursid.  Jed and Irfan did share some insights in what we should expect coming out of Disrupt 2023, so be sure to listen to the end.  Exciting times ahead for IGEL customers, IGEL partners, and the entire EUC ecosystem. 


Host: Barry Browne
Co-host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Sebastien Persuat
Guest : Moin Kahn
Guest: Jed Ayres
Guest: David Prows
Guest Irfan Jhurshid

p.s.  The audio quality is not the best, so apologies in advance.

Join Barry and Sebastien as they discuss what to expect at the upcoming IGEL Disrupt conference kicking off next week in Nashville.  Some interesting teasers in what we should expect from the podcast, the event, and IGEL OS 12: COSMOS.

Host: Barry Browne
Co-Host: Sebastien Perusat

IGEL, provider of the managed endpoint operating system for secure access to any digital workspace, today announced IGEL COSMOS. Unveiled at DISRUPT23 – The Ultimate Global EUC event in Munich, COSMOS is a unified, agile platform to securely manage and automate the delivery of digital workspaces, from any cloud. Offering a modular architecture, granular endpoint control and end-user freedom, COSMOS is designed to enable organizations to garner the full power of current-day and future clouds with extensive control, while powering great user experiences for today’s hybrid work.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Barry Browne
Co-host: Chris Feeney

Remote work is alive and well and thriving in the U.S. and abroad. An estimated 36.2 million American employees will be working remotely by 2025. Right now, about a quarter of U.S. employees are working remotely and 16% of U.S. companies are all-remote, according to Zippia. It’s indicative of what is becoming the standard workforce environment of the future: a hybrid work environment that includes a fluid mix of remote, mobile, and on-site workspaces with a steadily increasing number of applications being delivered from the cloud. IT teams must contend with this assortment of workspaces and remote worker needs at the endpoint, and it is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. They need to achieve a fine balance fulfilling all remote worker requests and maintaining a level of security and access control that supports the overall safety of the network.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Barry Browne

The Digital Workspace  Ecosystem Alliance (DWEA), a non-profit consortium of technology leaders dedicated to providing vendor-neutral tools and resources to help organizations develop their digital workspace strategies, has released the results of its first annual “State of the Digital Workspace 2022” survey, which looks at adoption, benefits, challenges and opportunities that remote, hybrid and on-premises work environments currently face.

During September 2022, more than 2,500 organizations around the world took part in the survey, which was one of the largest digital workspace-focused surveys to date and comes at a pivotal moment when the upheaval we’ve experienced due to the global pandemic. The lessons learned over the last two years are still fresh in our minds and based on the survey, a clearer picture of the path forward is emerging with many organizations eager to solidify the digital workspace strategies that will see them into the future.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Barry Browne
Co-host: Chris Feeney
C0-host: Patrick Toner

Written by Edwin ten Haaf, IGEL Community Member

More and more of our IGEL customers want to facilitate work from anywhere.

In the office they were familiar with using #IGELOS driven devices.  By providing end users with notebooks running IGEL OS or UD Pocket(IGEL  on a stick) user can safely and easily connect to their virtual  workplace.

The management backend (UMS) is managing these devices in the  local network.  connect to ICG and the  management backend connects to ICG and the devices can be managed as if  they were local.   

If you're ICG is installed and configured well you can now manage  you're devices outside the office. Deploy and update profiles, support  users with shadow functionality. One important part that has to be  configured separately is the distribution of IGEL OS firmware and Custom  Partitions (Additional Software running on the IGEL OS like MS Teams and  Zoom)

For this you need to point you're devices to a remote https/sftp  location. Please read here how


Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat

This week we discuss the success of the IGEL Community and the value it has brought to the EUC community. We also cover the future and what the community has planned to bring more value to the current and future members.

Host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat

One of my favorite parts about the IGEL Community and any community is people helping people. Someone asks a question, maybe not even relating to IGEL itself but an associated technology. Many fine folks jump in to give their suggestions. Recently I saw just this in the IGEL Community, and the solution is so fantastic and helpful; I wanted to share it with all of you! 

Joseph Masone, asked the question: 

"Aside from modifying hosts files, is there a way to allow only a list of URLs we designate via the Firefox browser? We tried setting up a local HTTP proxy. However, that can be bypassed by simply typing HTTPS in the URL. We also tried restricting all the navigation menus/toolbars; however, one of the sites we need to allow access to has links that can leverage to access other unwanted sites."

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner

IGEL, a maker of well-engineered thin client hardware devices for two decades, is exiting that business as part of an all-out drive to make its popular Linux secure edge operating system the standard for Windows workspace computing across any device or cloud.

The decision to stop production of hardware thin clients for the No. 3 provider of thin clients in North America and Europe with an installed base of three million devices - opens the door for lGEL to provide its next gen edge OS exclusively through heavyweight hardware partners LG, Lenovo and HP.

For IGEL CEO Jed Ayres – who has spearheaded the company’s transformation into a secure Linux workspace operating system powerhouse- getting out of the hardware business is the culmination of a “dream come true” that he envisioned when he joined the company as CEO of North America six years ago.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat 
Guest: Jed Ayres