Awingu* – safe everywhere

*Update October 2023: With the acquisition of Alludo, Awingu was renamed Parallels® Secure Workspace. The described functions and advantages in security and flexibility remain unchanged. With the new name, Awingu as Parallels Secure Workspace® is now a fully-fledged member of the Parallels family, alongside Parallels® Desktop, Parallels® RAS, Parallels® Toolbox and Parallels® Access.

Why don’t you work (from) where (from) you want: Working from the home office, in the Train, view planning data on the construction site, open the monitoring tool on your private tablet during a tour of production. All this is possible t Awingu – soven the highly sensitive ERP application, which has to be operated locally in any case – you can also get that with it web–capable, and that simply and securely. The following case of one of our customers (name has been changed) shows one of the most common use cases for Awingu.

Mr. Nowak has a problem. Dhe VPN client must on all devices ato the current be brought up to date. A security problem in the current version is already being actively exploitedby hackers . 70 employees have beenusing the VPN connection from their home office for weeks, some of them with their private devices. All These devices now need the new client and the current configuration file. Not all users get n that. Quite an effort. And that with every new version . In addition, the performance leaves a lot to be desired in some cases. Mr. Nowak is urgently urgently for a bettern solution. It should simply and safe without requiring a lot of maintenance. This is where Awingu comes into play.

Awingu comes as an appliance. Typically, you install the solution in its own infrastructure. If you are already using a remote desktop server scenario to enable users to work remotely or to provide applications centrally, you are ideally suited to using Awingu set up. This is the case with Mr. Nowak at the company. The appliance is simply as an additional virtual machine in the network installed. First establish the connection to the AD. Then you can import the users and groups that Awingu for the work. Now you can authorize users or groups to resources that are already available via RDS. In addition, it is best to use dthe integrated multi-factor authentication that Awingu already outof–the-box brings along – et voila! Secure remote access is complete.

Mr. Nowak now writes an e-mail to a selected test group. The 10 users should register via the browser link at Awingu log in. Due to the connection, this requires to the ADonly the already known login data in the domain. More than a current browser is to work not necessary. From any desktop, tablet, Mac, smartphone or any device with an HTML5 browser, you can with Awingu from any desktop, tablet, Mac, smartphone or any device with an HTML5 browser. When logging in, the user lands in their workspace. Here they can see the files and programs shared with them. The programs open directly in the browser. The connection to a full desktop is also possible.

The fact that some users work with their private devices has already caused Mr. Nowak a headache or two. Company data on private devices? Actually a no-go. With Awingu, this is a thing of the past. Mr. Nowak has simply prevented data from being downloaded to the end device of the users concerned. This can be done with just a few clicks in the Awingu admin console. The users can then only work with the company data within their session in the browser.

As Awingu is not a cloud product hosted by the manufacturer or a managed service provider, Mr. Nowak has nothing to worry about here either. He has Awingu completely under control in his infrastructure. Only diagnostic data for improving the product is transmitted to Awingu. This can also be switched off.

The test phase has more than paid off. All remote users have been switched over and will be working with Awingu. Im Concurrent license model Mr. Nowak has acquired 80 licenses. So he still has a buffer, in the event that all users are really working at the same time should. Cost point: 8000 euros per year.

With Awingu, external access to the company can be realized very quickly. Both for your own employees and external partners. Legacy or very sensitive applications can be made web-enabled and the whole thing runs efficiently in the browser via the lean HTML protocol. And security is a clear focus of Awingu.

All in all, we think it’s a great solution for a wide range of applications. If you have any questions about Awingu or would like a 30-minute demo, please contact us or visit Try Awingu* and just try it out for yourself.