Endpoints Will Fail. The Business Cannot.
Citrix, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Citrix argues endpoint resiliency starts with dual boot, given that ransomware and bad patches both take fleets offline.
Citrix makes the case that endpoint resiliency should be designed for failure rather than assumed away.
Ransomware volumes are still rising, bad patches still ship, and a single corrupted update can take an entire Windows fleet offline in an afternoon.
For a hospital, a bank or a retailer, that outage is a business event rather than an IT inconvenience.
The post argues resiliency starts with dual boot, giving each endpoint a second known-good path to a working desktop when the primary environment is compromised or broken. The framing is continuity: endpoints will fail, so the question is how quickly the business keeps running anyway.