Data Governance on Local Storage in Offsite

Abstract

The major challenges faced by software industry are how to restrict confidential data and protect copyright or intellectual property information between customer location and delivery center. Typically customer will have multiple vendors spread across various geographical locations. In global delivery model, customer sensitive information will be exchanged between teams and there is possibility of data breach from customer network. Though these delivery centers are firewall segregated or air gap network, it is difficult to restrict end user to store information in local device. Thin client installation at delivery center or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) setup at customer location are trivial solution to ensure information is not moved out of network. All traditional offshore development centers may not have thin client set up and they use workstation with local storage. Converting these workstations into thin client is expensive and customer may not be ready to provide VDI setup for offsite location. This paper provides simple solution with zero investment for local workstations to act like Thin Client, and also to ensure that there is no data or information leakage through local storage.