This is a guest blog post by Pan Kamal, Director of Product Marketing, TruU, Inc.

As organizations plan the reopening of offices, today’s workplace and workforce are in transition. Enterprises need their employees to have the flexibility to work from anywhere, at any time, with the same security they had working from corporate facilities.

A unified, cloud-based digital workspace platform, Citrix Workspace delivers access to apps, desktops, and data from anywhere. As the number of apps grows and the work environment gets more complex, underlying disparate systems or legacy environments still require passwords.

A passwordless MFA solution can enhance security and deliver an improved customer experience. TruU has partnered with Citrix to deliver an experience that empowers employees to work seamlessly from anywhere, on any device, and eliminates the need for passwords.

TruU Leverages Citrix Workspace SAML for Federated Application Access

Single sign-on (SSO) capabilities, combined with application federation supported by SAML, help to mitigate complexity by creating a single, uniform access layer for web applications. This allows users a point-and-click environment to select applications they need to access without having to deal with credentials and passwords.

Leveraging the recently announced support for SAML, Citrix Workspace can now easily integrate with identity providers (IdPs) to enable users to seamlessly access their federated applications. This is already true for users of Citrix ADC.

TruU Delivers a Veritable Passwordless Enterprise MFA Solution

TruU partners with Citrix and most identity providers, many of whom leverage the Citrix Workspace / SAML integration to enhance their existing SSO solutions with validated user biometrics. Additionally, TruU can deliver higher assurance through the assertion of presence via proximity or the use of artificial intelligence to correlate various human traits prior to passing an assertion to Citrix via an IdP. All this is transparent to the user, who receives frictionless access to their federated applications with no passwords in the mix. Most major IdPs are supported.

Organizations would prefer to deploy passwordless solutions that extend down to an employee’s workstation, be it a Windows machine or Mac. Unfortunately, hardware-bound biometrics require users to still remember a network password or pin from time to time and allow for less flexibility with access from unmanaged endpoints. The optimal experience is achieved via end-to-end passwordless authentication where users can seamlessly login to their endpoint and invoke a Citrix Virtual App or Virtual Desktop session without the need for additional authentication credentials. TruU is also part of the Citrix Ready Workspace Security Program ecosystem, providing true passwordless access to Citrix Workspace.

The Citrix Ready Workspace Security Program provides customers a comprehensive partner ecosystem of tested, validated, and trusted security solutions for their Citrix Workspace. Customers can choose security solutions from partners across identity and access management; monitoring and analytics; device and endpoint security; network security; data security; and out-of-the-box SaaS and web app integrations.

The Most Complete End-to-End Passwordless Identity Platform

TruU solves these challenges and works across the broadest range of enterprise systems that require authentication, including Windows and Mac workstations, applications, VDI, VPN, and physical security systems.

Given the focus on employees and privileged users in the enterprise, eliminating the leading target for hackers from the equation makes a lot of sense. Most passwordless MFA solutions center on a mobile push to invoke a biometric authentication event. In the current environment where a large segment of the workforce is still operating remotely, the number of step-up authentication requests presented to the user can be pretty high. Leveraging artificial intelligence and human behavior analytics, TruU can reduce the number of security challenges presented to users, resulting in a truly frictionless experience.

TruU Passwordless Enterprise MFA Platform

  • With its Human Presence Based Security Response, TruU automatically locks the workstation when the user moves more than a few feet away from their device.
  • The AI/ML Based Adaptive Risk Engine detects anomalies in human behavioral patterns, enabling TruU to deliver continuous risk monitoring that eliminates imposters or attackers from taking over login sessions.
  • TruU Passwordless MFA is more secure and easy to use. The FIDO keys are generated on the mobile device. and the private key never leaves the mobile device. The net effect of the private keys not residing on the target device/laptop makes the deployment more secure.
  • Self-Service Onboarding Capabilities make it easy to complete remote self-service user onboarding.

For more information or to request a demo of TruU solutions visit TruU.ai or email info@TruU.ai. Also, check out TruU’s Citrix Ready Marketplace page to learn which Citrix products TruU solutions are compatible with.