Branch teller stations and lobby kiosks. Locked down. Audited.
Banking and financial services hold the largest unified endpoint management market share — 20.42% in 2025. The compliance burden is the highest of any vertical. Every branch workstation, ATM lobby terminal, and back-office PC is a regulated endpoint.
94% of mid-sized financial firms plan new VDI/DaaS within the next year
Industry survey, 2025
What banking IT teams are dealing with
Branch transformation from PCs to managed thin clients
Converting traditional branch desktop PCs to centrally managed thin clients while maintaining access to core banking applications, printing, and peripheral devices. The migration window is narrow — branches operate 6 days a week with limited after-hours access.
Insider threat and lateral movement on flat branch networks
Branch networks often lack micro-segmentation. A compromised teller workstation on a flat LAN can reach the core banking jump host. Replacing branch PCs with zero-persistence thin clients eliminates the persistent foothold attackers need.
Multi-framework compliance overhead
Banks must simultaneously satisfy PCI DSS 4.0 (card processing), GLBA (customer financial data), SOX (IT general controls), FFIEC guidance (examiner expectations), and state banking regulations. Each framework has endpoint-specific requirements that overlap but do not align cleanly.
Compliance landscape
PCI DSS 4.0
Card-processing endpoints in branches and ATM lobbies
GLBA
Gramm-Leach-Bliley — customer financial data protection
SOX
Sarbanes-Oxley — IT general controls for publicly traded banks
FFIEC
Federal examiner guidance on endpoint security posture
How VelaOS helps
- Zero-persistence endpoints eliminate lateral movement from compromised branch workstations
- Per-device mutual TLS authenticates every branch endpoint to the cloud — no shared credentials
- 802.1X EAP-TLS network profiles deploy to branches without manual certificate handling
- Audit log captures every action on every device for examiner review
- Policy diff viewer shows exactly what changed between configuration versions
Typical banking fleet profile
Fleet size
2 000 – 200 000 endpoints (mid-size bank to top-20 institution)
Refresh cycle
4 – 5 years; VDI extends to 6 – 7 years
Common VDI
BFSI holds 25.7% of the cloud VDI market. Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops dominates, VMware Horizon and Azure Virtual Desktop secondary.
Run the numbers for your banking fleet
Pre-filled with 2,000 devices — the typical starting point for banking.