Best Remote Desktop & Access Tools for Private Equity Firms

Remote access to the Bloomberg Terminal's market data, news, and Instant Bloomberg chat via biometric login.

Editor's takeBloomberg controls roughly 33 percent of the financial data market with more than 325,000 subscribers worldwide, making it the default choice for many institutional desks. Access requires a proprietary B-Unit biometric device or app, adding a real security layer to remote logins. The annual cost is rising to about $31,980 per terminal in 2025, and some users report severe lag when connecting through Citrix from distant offices.

Enterprise Chromium browser embedding data controls and access governance to secure SaaS apps.

Editor's takeIsland turns the browser itself into a security control point, governing copy, paste, print and screenshots at the last mile. A $250 million Series E round pushed its valuation to $4.8 billion, backed by Sequoia and Coatue. Pricing stays opaque, and an AWS Marketplace listing puts a 12-month contract near $250,000.

VPN-less secure remote access platform with credential injection, built for zero trust enterprise environments.

Editor's takeBeyondTrust holds FedRAMP Moderate authorization and is the only secure remote access provider validated to FIPS 140-2 Level 1, backed by patented VPN-less Jump Technology. Credential injection lets technicians run admin tasks without ever seeing plaintext passwords. A critical vulnerability, CVE-2024-12356, was added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog in January 2025, and G2 reviewers frequently call the product expensive.

Clientless zero-trust remote access tool for RDP, SSH, and VNC, with FedRAMP High authorization.

Editor's takeZscaler PRA removes exposed ports entirely, routing sessions through outbound-only connections to its Zero Trust Exchange. Disposable jump boxes leave no persistent infrastructure once a session ends, a real attack-surface reduction. Graphical RDP sessions run laggier than a traditional VPN, and the base license caps out at just 10 target systems.

Secure remote access software from VNC's inventors, offering direct LAN connectivity and a Cure53 white-box audit.

Editor's takeRealVNC is the only remote access vendor to complete and publish an independent white-box security audit by Cure53. Perfect Forward Secrecy encryption means session data cannot be decrypted later, even by RealVNC itself. Pricing starts at $3.69 per device monthly on annual billing only, and iOS devices remain view-only.

Browser-based remote PC control with no client install, PCI DSS certified security, and flat-rate pricing from $9.95/mo.

Editor's takeeBLVD's browser-based viewer means anyone can connect instantly without installing client software, a real time-saver for ad hoc support sessions. PCI DSS certification and 256-bit SSL encryption cover the security basics at a price well below TeamViewer or LogMeIn. The catch is performance: reviewers describe file transfers as notably slow, even between machines on the same network, and the host machine must run Windows.