IoT Lifecycle attacks – lessons learned from Flash in VDI/Cloud

There are lots of parallels between cloud/vdi deployments and “the Internet of Things (IoT)”, basically they both involve connecting an end-point to a network.

One of the pain points in VDI for many years has been Flash Redirection. Flash is a product that it’s makers Adobe seem to have been effectively de-investing in for years. With redirection there is both server and client software. Adobe dropped development for Linux clients many years ago, then surprisingly resurrected it late last year (presumably after customer pressure). Adobe have since said they will kill the Flash player on all platforms in 2020.