Citrix Workspace Browser for Delivering Enterprise Web Apps

Businesses spent a lot of time and money updating software and trying to suit how employees wanted to work when consumerization of IT was the newest big thing. Many of those adjustments made it easier for people to work each day. The Citrix Workspace Browser browser served as the lowest common denominator throughout all of these new endpoints, allowing BYO device users, non-corporate PCs, corporate workstations, mobile devices, and third parties to access company resources.

It was a great goal to work toward. Everyone is familiar with using a browser, they are commonly available for free, and there was hardly any entry barrier. However, there is a drawback: they were created with consumer needs, not business needs, in mind. To secure their most valuable asset, their intellectual property, businesses are searching for security features like clipboard controls, fine-tuned data download and upload policies, and the ability to impose watermarks.

Citrix’s Enterprise Browser Explained

Citrix Workspace Browser is a Chromium-based enterprise browser created to give protected access to SaaS apps and corporate websites as well as security from data loss and cyberattacks as part of a complete zero trust strategy. The browser is designed to be used on both managed and unmanaged BYO devices and runs locally on Windows and Mac computers. Without requiring IT to handle every endpoint device, it offers the right endpoint to control.

Citrix Workspace Browser Features

• installed locally for a genuine native experience on the user’s device
• Per-app VPN-less access to corporate web resources while limiting unauthorized lateral network connections
• Apply data loss prevention (DLP) measures contextually, such as clipboard access controls, upload/download limitations, watermark enforcement, blocking screen capture, and printing controls
• Protection against keyloggers helps stop malware from logging keystrokes and reduce password theft
• Web filtering for unidentified URLs with allowed, forbidden, or restricted viewing

The Adaptive Authentication service can be used by Citrix Workspace Browser to enable quite well, contextual enforcement for the above features. IT administrators can, for instance, implement contextual policies to provide various access levels based on BYOD or corporate-managed devices. For additional security, insights, and enforcement options, Citrix Workspace Browser can additionally provide the Citrix Analytics service with extensive logging information.

Citrix Workspace Browser: Only Part of the Story

A complete zero trust network access (ZTNA) solution, Citrix Secure Private Access, comes with Citrix Workspace Browser. We are aware that some apps in your environment are still client-server applications that have not entirely migrated to web platforms. The Secure Access Agent can offer contextual, per-app access to internal resources for those apps.

Citrix Workspace Browser is already installed as part of the Citrix Workspace app because it is a component of our bigger app delivery strategy. Additionally, Citrix DaaS or Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops are not necessary. The secure delivery of internal web and SaaS apps is now possible without the need for additional VDA servers, infrastructure, or third-party licenses. (A free software connector appliance is required for access to internal web apps.)

Citrix Workspace Browser is an addition to the services already offered to Citrix DaaS users. Web and SaaS apps are provided as tiles in the same workspace as virtual apps. The majority of Citrix users already have Citrix Workspace Browser installed as part of the Citrix Workspace software; Citrix Secure Private Access is the only need for its use. Using a single platform, Citrix administrators and architects can now manage both classic virtual apps and web and SaaS apps.

Web and SaaS apps set by Secure Private Access are supplied to the mobile enterprise browser built within the iOS and Android Citrix Workspace apps. This makes it perfect for BYO devices because it offers secure access without device enrolment or MDM.

Additional Security Capabilities

Use Citrix Secure Browser if you need to give people access to resources that you don’t want running on your network or that could be dangerous. Citrix hosts the browser in a secure data center and builds an air-gap barrier between your users and the potentially dangerous information, even though it employs the same enterprise browser technology.

The Citrix Analytics service is also tightly integrated with the Citrix Secure Private Access portfolio. You may send detailed activity logs to Citrix Analytics for Security, which enables you to keep an eye on things like user behavior, potential data exfiltration, and improbable traveler scenarios. These inputs enable our service to provide a user risk score, which can then be added as another input to the contextual access engine to ensure the right level of access at the right time.

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Users can access all of their browser-based work apps in one location with Citrix Workspace Browser thanks to SSO, and they have the freedom to work securely from any device. Users can keep personal surfing separate and gain from having a browser for professional apps.

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