Citrix Ups Security Game
April 30 2020 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
New feature in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
provides protection for unmanaged personal devices fueling remote
work
When remote work moved from something a few people did on
occasion to a mandate for nearly all employees, companies around
the world scrambled to scale up their resources and enable it. Many
fell short, leaving employees to use personal devices to access the
systems and information they need to do their jobs. And that’s
created a gaping security hole. To help plug it, Citrix Systems,
Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), has launched App Protection, which enables
companies to protect apps and data on unmanaged endpoints and
ensure their corporate systems and information remain safe.
“Endpoints are the penultimate control point for the
implementation of device, application, and data security. The rapid
acceleration of remote work sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic and
proliferation of unmanaged personal devices being used for business
has created a special challenge, as decentralization is not the
friend of security,” said Frank Dickson, Program Vice President,
Security & Trust, IDC. “And specialized and sophisticated tools
are required to overcome it."
Dion Hinchcliffe, VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation
Research – and Executive Fellow, Tuck School of Business, Center
for Digital Strategies, agrees. “The recent mass global shift to
remote work has in part been enabled by the ability to use
available devices at hand, including unmanaged ones. Yet this has
opened up a vast new cybersecurity attack surface area and put even
more burdens on workers struggling to adapt to their new
environment,” he says. “App Protection provides an invaluable
safety net so both workers and employers can rest assured that
remote work devices are not leaking critical information, allowing
everyone to focus on what matters most: a safe, secure, and
productive digital workplace.”
Business is Now Personal
As employees around the world adjust to the new normal of
working from home, many are using whichever endpoint gives them the
quickest access to the resources they need to get work done. And
this often includes personal devices such as laptops, tablets and
phones. “Key logging and screen capture malware are common on these
endpoints and provide bad actors with easy entry to corporate
networks and sensitive information,” said Eric Kenney, Senior
Product Marketing Manager, Citrix.
Malware Beware
When present on a device, key logging malware captures each key
stroke entered by a user, including user names and passwords.
Screen-capture malware periodically takes a snapshot of the user’s
screen, saving it to a hidden folder on the device or directly
uploading it to the attacker’s server where the information can be
exploited. App Protection is uniquely designed to prevent this.
A Blank Stare
The unique feature thwarts keylogging and screen-capturing
malware that may live on personal devices by scrambling keystrokes
entered into a device and sending the attacker undecipherable text.
It also prevents data exfiltration from screen shot malware by
turning all screen shots into blank pictures.
With App Protection enabled, employees can stay productive by
working on a personal, unmanaged endpoint without sacrificing
security.
To see App Protection in action and learn more about how your
organization can leverage the capability to keep your employees,
their devices and your corporate systems and information safe,
click here
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Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is powering a better way to work with
unified workspace, networking, and analytics solutions that help
organizations unlock innovation, engage customers, and boost
productivity, without sacrificing security. With Citrix, users get
a seamless work experience and IT has a unified platform to secure,
manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud
environments. Citrix solutions are in use by more than 400,000
organizations including 98 percent of the Fortune 500.
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