Every other VDI defends the data.
Fortified360 removes it from the device entirely.
The market's leading desktop-as-a-service platforms all share one design assumption: data lands on the endpoint, then gets protected after the fact. Fortified360 was built on the opposite premise — nothing is ever exposed to defend.
Pixels stream to the device. Data never lands locally, so there is no exfiltration surface to police.
Full access from any browser. No client software, no EDR, MDM, VPN, or DLP stack on the device.
NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and CMMC alignment is architectural — not an add-on you assemble later.
We benchmarked against the four Gartner DaaS Leaders — not the easy targets.
The August 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop-as-a-Service named four Leaders. These are the strongest platforms on the market. Fortified360 is measured against all of them.
Azure Virtual Desktop
The most-deployed platform, riding deep Microsoft 365 integration. Full Windows VMs, full endpoint dependency.
Citrix DaaS
The regulated-industry incumbent for complex app delivery. Powerful, but heavy to design, tune, and run.
Amazon WorkSpaces
The AWS-native choice with pay-as-you-go desktops. Easy to start; consumption costs grow unpredictably.
Omnissa Horizon
The former VMware Horizon EUC business, now KKR-owned. Mature feature set amid post-divestiture upheaval.
Where the architecture diverges, the table tells the story.
| Capability | Azure Virtual Desktop | Citrix DaaS | Amazon WorkSpaces | Omnissa Horizon | Fortified360 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Architecture | |||||
| Security model | Perimeter + endpoint | Perimeter + endpoint | Perimeter + endpoint | Perimeter + endpoint | Zero-trust by design |
| Data on local device | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | None — pixel-only stream |
| Attack surface | High (full OS) | High (full OS) | High (full OS) | High (full OS) | Minimal — no local OS |
| Ransomware resilience | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | Very high — sessions reset |
| Immutable applications | No | No | No | No | Yes — cannot be altered |
| Ephemeral sessions | Limited | No | No | Limited | Yes — attackers ejected at logout |
| Endpoint & Access | |||||
| Endpoint software required | Client + stack | Client + stack | WorkSpaces client | Client + stack | None — 100% browser |
| Endpoint security tools needed | EDR · MDM · VPN · DLP | EDR · MDM · VPN · DLP | EDR · MDM · VPN · DLP | EDR · MDM · VPN · DLP | None on endpoint |
| BYOD support | Limited | Poor | Limited | Limited | Native — any device |
| Threat protection & 24×7 SOC | Add-on / BYO | Add-on / BYO | Add-on / BYO | Add-on / BYO | Included — SOC + IR |
| Operations & Economics | |||||
| Patch & OS management | High (images, FSLogix) | High (gold images) | High (VMs, images) | High (gold images) | Platform-managed |
| Zero-day exposure window | Patch-cycle dependent | Patch-cycle dependent | Patch-cycle dependent | Patch-cycle dependent | In-memory shielding |
| MSP implementation effort | High — Azure expertise | High — design & tuning | Medium–High | High — vSphere expertise | Low — deploy & go live |
| Cloud dependency | Azure-only | Citrix + infra | AWS-only | vSphere / multi-cloud | Cloud-agnostic |
| Compliance alignment | Add-ons required | Add-ons required | Add-ons required | Add-ons required | Built-in (NIST·ISO·SOC2·CMMC) |
| Platform Flexibility | |||||
| Multiple OS per user | One desktop/user | One desktop/user | One desktop/user | One desktop/user | Run multiple OS at once |
| OT / IoT isolated access | Not ideal | Not ideal | Not ideal | Not ideal | Purpose-built for IT/OT |
| Scalability | Cost-variable | Infra-heavy | VM-bound | Infra-heavy | Instant, elastic |
Four reasons the comparison isn't close.
No data, no breach
The Leaders deliver a full operating system to the endpoint, then layer EDR, DLP, MDM, and VPN to guard it. Fortified360 streams only pixels — data never reaches the device. There is no exfiltration surface to monitor, because there is nothing local to take.
Immutable by default
Applications cannot be altered, and every session resets. An attacker who gains a foothold is ejected at logout with nothing to persist. Ransomware that depends on writing to a durable endpoint simply has nowhere to land.
Weeks, not quarters
VDI Leaders demand gold images, patch cycles, and platform specialists. Fortified360 is deploy-assign-go-live: no agents to push, no security stack to assemble on the endpoint, no cloud lock-in to negotiate around. Threat protection and a 24×7 SOC are included, not sourced.
Compliance is the architecture
For the others, NIST, ISO, SOC 2, and CMMC alignment is an assembly project of add-ons. Fortified360 is zero-exfiltration by design, so the controls auditors look for are satisfied by how the platform works — not by what you bolt on afterward.
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