Business Continuity Starts at the Endpoint

What happens if ransomware makes your employees’ PCs unusable? Discover how endpoint resiliency can keep your business running when a cyberattack strikes.

October 5, 2026

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Digital Workplace
Citrix
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What do you do, if your business runs flat? Attacks and breakdowns are the most efficient – and unwelcome – obstructions in your operations and daily turnover. More organizations are getting some level of preparedness regarding their datacentres, but way too few have the required focus on the users’ workstations – a missing link in IT-security. Fixing the engine will not help, if the tyres are flat.

Keep your business running - always

IT-security has become a critical parameter for driving a business. The ownership of security has moved up in many organizations and is getting anchored with the executive management or board of directors – to great cheers amongst IT-professionals all over the World. The reason? Security costs money. Poor security costs a lot of money.

For every minute, every hour and day your turnover is forced to stop, money fly out the window. The key to succeed is to keep the wheels running, even when the breakdown happens: Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, or in short, BCDR. Instead of talking about getting on your feet after an attack, we should be talking about not falling at all! The attack is happening; the breakdown is real – but your business keeps running.

And the weakest link is…

If a ransomware-attack puts your users out of the game and eliminates the access to Windows and critical applications, then what?

From a BCDR-perspective, your endpoints and clients – your workstations – represent one of the weakest links in your security. A strong recovery-setup on your datacentre will not keep your daily turnover alive if your users are checkmate. Just like the running engine and the flat tyres.

What do you to, when everything is shut down?

Being resilient in modern IT is the key to succeed with BCDR. Based on Citrix’ new Unicon platform, we have launched a new Danoffice IT Managed Service, which helps you move on when everything is shut down, when nothing works – not even your phones. Thus, we are back with the roadside assistance-analogy: When you stop, the help will be there instantly. You will move on, and you will know what to do on your road ahead.

With Managed Endpoint Resiliency with Citrix UniconOS Dual Boot we establish two containerized environments, with two completely separated operating systems on your users’ endpoints. When (not if…) the attack happens, the user can boot its workstation up in a recovery-OS in Citrix Unicon, with one single click. Here, there will be access to apps and to the user’s well-known Citrix Virtual Desktop. In short, access to your company!

Resiliency (/rᵻˈzɪliən(t)si/):
The ability to be happy, successful, etc. again after something difficult or bad has happened
The ability to return to its usual shape after being bent, stretched, or pressed

- Source: Cambridge Dictionary

Managed Endpoint Resiliency with Citrix UniconOS Dual Boot

Secures access to critical applications when Windows is not accessible due to attacks, corruption or other instances
Why? Recovery takes too much time: Avoid backup-machines and manual operations
Missing or untested contingency-plans can lead to fatal losses
Citrix Unicon Dual Boot is a controlled emergency-route to continuing operations
Secures access to Virtual Desktops, browsers, and remote-access resources
Your insurance against loss of revenue

Double game

“Instead of being put out of the game by an attack, you are putting the attack out of the game”, says Søren Bay Graahede, Commercial Lead, Citrix, in Danoffice IT. ”The Dual Boot-function is an often ignored feature, which can have an enormous impact on an organization”, he says and adds. “Even more so, if you compare the cost for the license with the expenses from an operational stoppage. At a price point at €7 per user the numbers quickly point towards profit”. The new service, however, is much more than a technical solution, Søren clarifies. “By hedging your bet on a dual boot, you are always able to move on. But our service does not only secure access to this particular feature – the client also gets a complete and documented emergency setup where Danoffice IT secures deployment, user journeys, “fire drills” and evidence”.

“By hedging your bet on a dual boot, you are always able to move on. But our service does not only secure access to this particular feature – the client also gets a complete and documented emergency setup”

- Søren Bay Graahede, Commercial Lead, Citrix, Danoffice IT

”Press F12”

According to Ulrik Stub, Lead Technology Strategist in Danoffice IT, the cost for securing the company’s business continuity should be viewed as an insurance premium. “How do you insure yourself against revenue loss the best possible way? Time and value are inextricably linked, and here continuity is important. For all companies, it starts with realization: Do we have roadside assistance on our business or not”, he states. “Within the Citrix-universe today, we operate with the concept of automized resiliency and here, the contingency-plan is central. Where do you go, if the fire alarm goes off? With our new service – our insurance – the user knows what to do: Press F12, and then you will be running on a clean machine. And just after that, our system and plans kick in and everyone knows the road ahead”, concludes Ulrik Stub, Lead Technology Strategist, Danoffice IT

“How do you insure yourself against revenue loss the best possible way? With our new service – our insurance – the user knows what to do: Press F12, and then you will be running on a clean machine”

- Ulrik Stub, Lead Technology Strategist, Danoffice IT