Practical Tips for Securing Your Most Critical Data

Beyond defending the corporate network against external attacks and insider threats, many organizations today struggle with taking a comprehensive approach to data security.  

Citrix makes it possible to take advantage of a range of options for delivering integrated data security with strong measures. This makes it easy to launch new applications and new services successfully, guaranteeing information system security without delaying projects, and ensure that the integration of security tools into the legacy infrastructure does not cause any drop in security or productivity.  Citrix helps you get there with these best practices:

Make sure your data stays in the safest place.
Citrix prevents application data from leaving the data center—ever—with application virtualization. This works well with all application types and is the best delivery method for client-server applications, and Citrix set the industry standard.
Citrix Presentation Server shields users from the complex requirements and limitations of managing their own applications on their desktops, and effectively consolidates administration and control in the data center. Applications execute on centralized servers; only keystrokes, mouse clicks and screen images travel over the network to the user’s computer. This approach significantly reduces security risks, bandwidth requirements and administrative effort for distributed endpoint devices—while maintaining the same local user application experience, with full use of local devices and printers.

Keep sensitive data confidential when serving millions of customers online.
Web applications provide direct access to some of the most sensitive and valuable data in any organization. Citrix NetScaler systems have been architected to forward valid client requests to servers and to block illegitimate requests via a single, unified device.
This includes built-in defenses against DoS attacks and preventing the theft of sensitive information that might be exchanged via a Web portal—a key benefit of Citrix NetScaler Application Switch, a high-performance application delivery system that provides comprehensive traffic management, application acceleration, network optimization and attack defenses. Additional end-to-end security features include worm defenses, surge protection, priority queuing and packet filtering to ensure continuous service by blocking unauthorized or malicious requests.

Take a pass on the password problem  
Citrix provides centralized enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) for multiple resources, reducing user exposure to multiple passwords and logins, enhancing security while also reducing support costs.
By automating logons, policy enforcement and password changes, Citrix Password Manager eliminates the security breaches that are common when users have more passwords than they can manage. Password Manager is easy to deploy and use, and requires no scripting, application-level integration, or significant changes to existing IT infrastructure.

Simplify, consolidate and secure user access  
Extending remote access is a permanent trade-off between security and user-friendliness. Citrix offers a better alternative: one access point with a universal SSL VPN appliance that provides a secure, always-on, single point of access to any information resource.

Products featuring:

• Citrix Access Gateway

• Citrix Application Firewall

• Citrix NetScaler

• Citrix Password Manager

• Citrix Presentation Server