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The Crux of Remote Security
The crux of remote security lies with protecting systems, data, critical access, and communications in IT environments where users, devices, and services are not within the traditional on-premises infrastructure or inside the periphery of enterprise network. As remote work and cloud-based operations have surged, the attack surface has expanded significantly. Securing digital assets while being exposed to remote access by internal users, third-party users, or external stakeholders has been a challenge.
Many organizations today extend their IT operations beyond internal users to include a broad range of external stakeholders—third-party vendors, partners, contractors, technicians, and other external IT personnel. In many cases, granting these external users access to critical systems is not optional but essential for supporting key business functions, especially those involving remote privileged operations.
IT administrators are often left asking:
- Who is accessing business-critical systems?
- What is the purpose of access?
- When was the system accessed?
- How long did the session last?
- Is this a regular pattern of remote access?
These unanswered questions create a cloud of uncertainty. The discomfort grows when external users connect using personal devices that may fall outside the scope of the organization’s IT compliance standards. The risk is amplified if these individuals hold privileged access—potentially exposing sensitive assets to vulnerabilities beyond the control of internal IT teams.
About ARCON’s Global Remote Access (GRA)
ARCON’s GRA has been acknowledged by global SRM (Security and Risk Management) leaders for its holistic approach towards remote security. ARCON | GRA provides security to enterprise IT infrastructure along with maintenance and support in the most secure way without the hassles of implementing VPNs or any other additional installations (which is more typical). It just allows IT administrators to establish a secure remote desktop connection and helps end-users control their own systems remotely.
Moreover, ARCON | GRA is an automated tool which is why the time taken in raising requests for privileged rights (through traditional methods) by end-users is zeroed down. This privilege elevation happens in a secure manner and enhances the enterprise identity lifecycle management. From an administrative perspective, it allows enterprise IT security admins to control the end-users’ systems/ applications remotely and help them to elevate admin rights, grant permissions, or change of credentials, in a secure manner.
Recently, ARCON added three unique features to the solution that can address multiple remote security challenges and fulfill requirements from IT administrators/ SRM teams.
Let us delve deeper and check out the three features.
Remote Connection with Multiple Display
During scenarios when IT administrators need to monitor/check multiple remote user activities simultaneously, it might not be possible for them to do so at a single glance.
This GRA feature supports access to multiple displays simultaneously, allowing users to view and interact with content across multiple screens remotely.
Archive and Purging of Video Logs, Users and Devices
While it is highly imperative to get real-time video logs of remote users, it could be a challenge for the IT administrators to keep a track of the number of videos – considering hundreds of users accessing multiple systems/ applications at different hours for different reasons through multiple devices.
With this feature of GRA, the admins can archive video logs and session logs along with users and devices. It also helps in purging video logs and session logs.
GRA Thick Client
GRA Thick Client is a standalone application within ARCON Global Remote Access (GRA) that allows secure and seamless remote access to enterprise systems. Unlike web-based solutions, the Thick Client provides enhanced performance, offline capabilities, and advanced security features, making it ideal for IT administrators and privileged users requiring remote access to critical infrastructure.
1. Secure Remote Access
2. Comprehensive Session Management 3. Enhanced Performance
4. File Transfer & Collaboration
5. Audit & Compliance
6. Support Web streaming, RDPS, P2P
Conclusion
Remote Security concerns today have escalated to a huge extent considering the trends of hybrid work environments and flexible working hours. A robust and enterprise-level remote access security tool like ARCON | GRA helps organizations secure their confidential business assets by authorizing and authenticating remote users with their devices anywhere, anytime. The three new features added to the solution offer additional benefits both from an authorized access control and administrative perspective.
