Home office without the VPN box
By Anna Walter, Chief Marketing & Sales ·
Lisa works from home two days a week. Her files, the shared drives and her office PC stay in the office. Here is how she still works as if she sat at her desk.
The files stay in the office
The project folders are on the office file share, the accounting software runs on her office PC, and the printer and scanner sit next to it. All of it answers only inside the office network. For years the home-office day meant copying files to a USB stick the evening before - and hoping it was the latest version.
What Lisa does today
At the kitchen table Lisa opens Awacino, taps Beam out and picks the office. Her laptop is now "in the office": she opens the office PC by remote desktop, and the shared drives answer at the address she always uses. No copying, no second version of a file.
Why the office likes it
Nobody had to buy, set up or patch a VPN box, and the office firewall has no door open to the internet. Awacino runs on the office PC without admin rights; colleagues get their own slot or a Beam-in code that can be switched off with one tap.
Try it yourself
Start with two free slots: your laptop and the computer in the office. Lisa's use case explains it step by step.
A view on technology
Dr.-Ing. Andreas Walter, Founder & CEO
Lisa's laptop and the office PC both connect outwards. Our servers only introduce them to each other; then Awacino finds a direct path between the two - through the home router and the office firewall, also behind CGNAT - and encrypts it end to end. Her files never pass through us.
Because nothing in the office waits for incoming connections, there is no open port and no VPN gateway that attackers could scan or that needs the next security patch. The office firewall stays closed.
The laptop gets a SituIP, a real address inside the office network, through a small virtual network interface. That is why remote desktop, the file share and the printer work unchanged, by the addresses everyone in the office already uses.