In the following sections we will talk about Local Mode, to fully understand the impact that Local Mode has on security we first needed to understand what it does.
When a View desktop is made ready for a client connection, a new VM gets cloned from the View desktop template. It runs on the vSphere environment. In a normal View connection, the View Agent transports the desktop to the View Client, which is running on a physical desktop. The View Client transports the keyboard, mouse, and USB (if configured) to the View Agent.
When Local Mode is used, the VM is basically downloaded from the vSphere environment to the client. Then, the View desktop runs on the local physical device, similarly to using VMware Player or VMware Workstation (Fusion on Mac). All interactions are now between the View Client and the local copy of the View desktop's View Agent as shown in the following diagram:
Local Mode is mostly used by staff that have to work offline or remotely with no or slow connection...