Citrix Access Gateway

Citrix Access Gateway™ is a secure application access solution that provides administrators granular application-level control while empowering users with access from anywhere. It gives IT administrators a single point of control to manage access and actions based on both the user and the endpoint device, providing better risk, security and compliance management.

SmartAccess – Ultimate flexibility in controlling access and actions

Patent-pending SmartAccess technology allows administrators to control both access and actions based on both the user and the endpoint device.  For example, a user may have full access (read, save locally, print, etc.) to a set of files when utilising her office PC-–but may be restricted to read-only access when connecting through an unrecognised kiosk device.  Similarly, if an employee tries to log in to the corporate network via a home PC that does not have an active anti-virus update service, that employee may not be able to access certain mission-critical systems.  With SmartAccess, administrators are provided ultimate flexibility in developing and implementing corporate security policies.

Best VPN solution performance and scalability

Our flexible delivery model creates an excellent secure access solution for any size organisation.  Access Gateway provides industry-leading reliability and scalability from one to more than 10,000 concurrent users per appliance.  

Easy to deploy, administer and use

Access Gateway delivers the best user and administrator experience of any SSL VPN solution on the market:

Users – Access Gateway was designed from the ground up to provide an excellent user experience.  Single point of secure remote access and single sign-on capabilities minimize the number of authentication prompts, creating easy navigation to all key resources–-including Windows® applications (delivered with or without Citrix XenApp™), desktops delivered by Citrix XenDesktop™, e-mail, file shares, internal Web applications and more.  Additionally, always-on access ensures sessions are automatically reconnected after losing a network connection or roaming between access points.

Administrators – Access Gateway provides fast, easy and cost-effective deployment and ongoing management. The client is Web-deployed and is automatically updated without user intervention, and management tools are highly intuitive.  Organisations can easily provide mobile and remote users with desk-like access from any location-–without the cost and complexity of installing, configuring, updating and supporting client software on each device.

Flexible purchase options

Three editions of Access Gateway are available to meet every organisation’s business needs:

Standard Edition – Designed for organisations with fewer than 500 concurrent users who are looking for an excellent secure remote access solution without the need for highly sophisticated policy deployment.  The most cost-effective SSL VPN solution on the market.  Learn more.

Advanced Edition – Designed for organisations with fewer than 500 concurrent users who are looking for an excellent secure remote access solution that includes highly sophisticated SmartAccess policy deployment, browser-only access or mobile device support.  Learn more.

Enterprise Edition – The best secure access solution for enterprise environments, offering market-leading scalability and performance, SmartAccess capabilities, high-availability options and integrated application acceleration and optimisation.  Learn more.

The best SSL VPN solution for XenApp

Access Gateway provides market-leading secure application access with or without XenApp.  Additional benefits provided when Access Gateway is deployed with XenApp include:

Access Gateway provides the same benefits as the Secure Gateway feature of XenApp.
SmartAccess allows unmatched control over Windows applications delivered by XenApp.
Bottom line – Using Access Gateway with XenApp delivers the benefits of a hardened appliance-based universal SSL VPN —
increasing security, extending user access and reducing costs when compared with utilising Secure Gateway.

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