The growing interconnection between suppliers, services, infrastructure, and supply chains is expanding organizations’ attack surface and can cause an incident to spread or affect more resources. This is one of the warnings highlighted by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) in its new Threat Landscape 2026 report. As European Cybersecurity Month gets underway, its findings underscore the need to strengthen the protection of increasingly interconnected digital environments.
Based on an analysis of 8,257 incidents recorded during 2025, the report highlights the significance of threats and attack vectors such as unauthorized access, ransomware, phishing, credential theft, and vulnerability exploitation. Phishing accounted for 77.8% of the social engineering techniques identified. In addition, among unauthorized access incidents where the intrusion vector could be determined, which represented 5.2% of cases, 60.4% involved the exploitation of a vulnerability.
ENISA also warns about attacks targeting supply chains, third-party providers, and cloud environments. Compromising a service provider, application, or software component can provide access to multiple organizations and increase the potential impact of an incident. The European agency also notes that more than 48,000 vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2025, a 22% increase over the previous year.
How Digital Workplace Virtualization Helps Reduce the Attack Surface
Against this backdrop, Virtual Cable emphasizes the need to reduce digital workplace fragmentation and manage identities, access, applications, and data in a coordinated manner. Digital workplace virtualization makes it possible to centralize desktop and application management while keeping corporate information within the organization’s infrastructure or its chosen cloud environment, reducing the amount of data stored on endpoint devices.
This model also makes it possible to determine which resources each user profile can access, apply multi-factor authentication (MFA), and centrally revoke permissions for employees, suppliers, or external collaborators. Limiting access to only the resources strictly required helps contain a potential intrusion and reduces the risk of it spreading to other systems.
UDS Enterprise manages virtual desktops, applications, and remote access from a single console. Virtual Cable’s digital workplace virtualization solution supports multiple virtualization platforms and connection protocols, includes native support for multi-factor authentication, and enables granular policies and user session control.
Non-Persistent Desktops and Incident Recovery
In deployments using non-persistent or ephemeral desktops, each new session can start from a clean, verified image. This capability makes it easier to isolate and replace a compromised workplace, prevents certain changes from persisting between sessions, and speeds up recovery.
Centralized templates also make it possible to apply updates and patches in a coordinated manner without having to manage each device individually.
Virtualization as Part of a Layered Security Strategy
These capabilities complement other measures such as endpoint protection, network segmentation, backups, and detection and response systems as part of a layered security strategy.
“In cybersecurity, trying to prevent every attack is no longer enough. Organizations must assume that an intrusion can occur and design the digital workplace so that a compromised credential or infected device does not open the door to the rest of the infrastructure. Virtualization helps apply this principle of containment and restore service more quickly.”
Javier González, Technical Director at Virtual Cable
For Virtual Cable, security must be built into the digital workplace from the outset, alongside availability, user experience, and operational flexibility.
Frequently Asked Questions About VDI and Cybersecurity
How can digital workplace virtualization improve cybersecurity?
Virtualization makes it possible to centralize the management of desktops, applications, data, and access, reducing the amount of information stored on endpoint devices and facilitating the coordinated implementation of security policies.
Can VDI reduce the attack surface?
VDI can help reduce digital workplace exposure by centralizing data and applications, controlling the resources each user can access, and limiting the information stored on endpoints. It should be part of a layered security strategy alongside other protective measures.
How can non-persistent desktops help in the event of a security incident?
Non-persistent or ephemeral desktops can start new sessions from clean, verified images. This makes it easier to isolate and replace a compromised workplace, prevents certain changes from persisting between sessions, and can speed up recovery.
What role does multi-factor authentication play in a VDI environment?
Multi-factor authentication adds an additional layer of protection when accessing the virtualized environment. Combined with granular policies and access limited to the resources strictly required by each user profile, it helps reduce the risks associated with compromised credentials.
Does virtualization replace other cybersecurity tools?
No. Virtualization complements measures such as endpoint protection, network segmentation, backups, and detection and response systems as part of a layered security strategy.
How does UDS Enterprise contribute to digital workplace security?
UDS Enterprise is a digital workplace virtualization solution that manages virtual desktops, applications, and remote access from a single console. It supports multiple virtualization platforms and connection protocols, includes native support for multi-factor authentication, and enables granular policies and user session control.
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