Importance of security
As customers increasingly deploy VDI environments to meet their "do anything from anywhere" requirements, security is one of the attributes of VDI that is becoming attractive for these customers, since the ability to retain user data in the data center offers significant risk mitigation in relation to data loss.
For more information, see the STIG and Microsoft Security Baseline-Based Hardening of a VMware Horizon on a VxRail-Based VDI Environment Implementation Guide. That document demonstrates how customers can significantly enhance the security posture of their VMware Horizon on VxRail VDI environment by using the STIGs (and associated security approaches such as the creation and enforcement of Microsoft security baselines) available for a VMware Horizon on VxRail technology stack running a Microsoft Windows-based user operating system. This is just one approach and is not meant to cover all possible security requirements.
Components targeted by STIGs and Microsoft security baselines
The following figure shows the components targeted by the STIGs: