Most companies I’ve worked at where employees had a Microsoft work computers. They were under heavy control, even with admin privileges. I was wondering, for a corporate environment, how employees’Linux desktops could be kept under control in a similar way. What would be an open source or Linux based alternative to the following:
- policy control
- Software Center with software allow lists
- controlled OS updates
- zscaler
- software detection tool to detect what’s been installed and determine if any unallowed software is present
- antivirus
- VPN
I can think of a few things, like a company having it’s own software repos, or using an atomic distribution. There’s already open source VPN solutions if course. But for everything else I don’t really know what could be used or what setup we could have.
There are plenty of RMM tools/companies that support Linux platforms.
Name a few that run locally in a server and support domain services
Connect wise and ninjaone come to mind.
Free and open source? If it’s enterprise pay for a suite.
Those are true RMMs though
Not to mention they are going to get compromised at some point
You can self host either platform so you have full control.
At that point anything you run is on you for security.