This is a guest blog post by Paul Wiederkehr, Product Marketing at SecureAuth.
As a Citrix Ready Partner, SecureAuth recently participated in a pre-release process to test and validate the authentication integration between Citrix Workspace and SecureAuth, using the new SAML 2.0 support on Citrix Cloud.
The team at SecureAuth approaches our ecosystem partnerships with tremendous focus and respect, understanding the importance of interoperability across technologies for the enterprise customer community. SecureAuth has validated and now supports the SAML 2.0 protocol to enable secure and contextual access for Citrix Workspace users. With this validation, we’re also now part of the Citrix Ready Workspace Security Program.
Our mutual customers can now easily set-up their SecureAuth Cloud IAM service as the identity provider for users to log in securely to Citrix Workspace and access all of their virtual apps, desktops, files, internal web apps via VPN-less access and SaaS applications in a unified digital workspace. The partnership delivers on security, identity protection, and productivity for enterprise organizations.
SAML Integration in a Few Quick Steps
Admins will appreciate the speed at which they can enable strong authentication for Citrix Workspace utilizing SecureAuth. With the SecureAuth application integration wizard, an admin can quickly enable advanced MFA for Citrix Workspace in just a few minutes. After the integration is complete, Citrix Workspace access is securely protected by SecureAuth’s risk-based adaptive analytics and multi-factor authentication policies. And your users can continue to access Citrix Workspace as before, but now their identities will be verified by SecureAuth prior to being granted access to their Workspace environment.
Fully Customizable User Authentication Workflows
With SecureAuth, your identity and access management team can manage and control the user experience based on the authentication processes they choose to deploy for the app — essentially serving as a framework and guide for the user journey.
SecureAuth admins can easily create different workflows to manage the login experience based on specific users, user groups, and applications. By combining adaptive authentication (contextual risk checks) with multi-factor authentication (Push-to-Accept, Symbol-to-Accept, biometrics, or timed-one-time-passcode), admins can create prescriptive workflows for specific users, user groups, and applications based on business objectives and established risk thresholds.
For example, the workflow for a remote or traveling employee who wants to access Citrix Workspace might be completely different from the workflow for an employee who reports to a corporate office every day because the risk threshold for each user is inherently different. This flexibility enables organizations to protect valuable resources with confidence and ensure a great user experience.
With SecureAuth, organizations can protect their Citrix Workspace based on risk thresholds they assign, not only to the app itself but also to the users. At the point of a login request, the applied user workflow can trigger specific actions. For example, you might grant the user access with their normal username and password if the risk is low; if the risk is high, you might require a step-up verification by requesting a fingerprint or a push notification such as Symbol-to-Accept via the SecureAuth Authenticate mobile app residing on the users’ smartphone.
Citrix and SecureAuth Together Deliver Stronger Identity Security
The ability to dynamically adjust authentication steps in real-time based on intelligence and inputs improves security to protect your Citrix Workspace. Together, Citrix and SecureAuth deliver the efficiency, productivity, and security enterprise organizations need to succeed in the accelerating digital landscape.
Learn more about SecureAuth in the Citrix Ready Marketplace.
