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Horizon Cloud Service

Founded in 2013 by the Cloud Security Alliance, the Security Trust Assurance and Risk (STAR) registry encompasses key principles of transparency, rigorous auditing, and cloud security and privacy best practices.

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Horizon Cloud Service

Horizon Cloud Service

Horizon Cloud Service can be deployed various ways to align with customer’s needs.

In each case, the Horizon Cloud Control Plane is hosted by VMware and provides services that enable the central orchestration and management of virtual desktops, remote desktop sessions, and remote applications for your users.

Traditionally, Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure simplifies the delivery of virtual desktops and apps. With a single solution, organizations can easily deploy and manage virtual applications and desktops on Microsoft Azure while leveraging cloud resources.

Horizon Cloud Service – next-gen is a modern cloud-first, multi-cloud Desktop as a Service (DaaS) deployment with Thin Edge Infrastructure. The service provides you with a global view of your desktops and applications spanning across on-premises and cloud environments. Regardless of the location of your desktop and application deployments, Horizon Cloud Service enables you to consistently manage and monitor them.

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Information about Horizon Cloud Service
Listed Since: 02/23/2021
Last Updated: 03/15/2024

STAR Level 1

Self-Assessment & Partner-Provided

Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire v4.0.2

CAIQ 4.0.2 Self-assessment
Offers an industry-accepted way to document what security controls exist in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services. It provides a set of Yes/No questions a cloud consumer and cloud auditor may wish to ask of a cloud provider to ascertain their compliance to the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM).