Multi‑Environment Workstations: Challenges, Requirements, and Best Practices
For years, IT leaders have faced the same paradox: the more sensitive an environment is, the more cumbersome it becomes for the people who rely on it. Two laptops, restricted rooms, rigid VDI setups: solutions meant to protect often end up slowing everything down. In February, ANSSI addressed this long‑standing tension head‑on. Its guidance on multi‑environment workstations (MEW) outlines an approach that could finally reconcile security, operability, or compliance...including for the most sensitive environments: those labeled “Restricted Distribution”. In one sentence ANSSI’s change the game: “It is therefore possible to obtain the following combinations: NP/NP, NP/RD, and DR/RD, without being limited to two isolated environments.”
Madly Pulval-Dady
March 12, 2026