Your workforce has gone hybrid. Your employees demand anywhere access to the SaaS and cloud apps they need to be productive alongside an engaging and secure user experience. But because your critical business apps remain inside the datacenter while employees access them on a variety of networks and devices, ensuring a strong security posture is not easy. Enter Citrix Secure Private Access, which delivers zero trust network access (ZTNA) for hybrid employees inside an unparalleled security user experience.

The Citrix Secure Private Access solution gives you the best of both worlds: adaptive, robust, and VPN-less security without disrupting the preferred workflows of your remote employees. Let’s examine how Citrix Secure Private Access can strengthen your security posture with location-based security and provide zero trust network access to critical business apps — all inside a simplified user experience.

Simplify the User Experience with Adaptive Authentication

Simplicity is the keystone of a great user experience, and secure access is no exception. From your end users’ perspective, they want the process of confirming their identity and gaining access to essential SaaS apps to be as easy as possible. Citrix Secure Private Access makes this possible with adaptive authentication. This works by dynamically adjusting the authentication flow based on the context of a user requesting to log in, evaluating factors like:

Device Posture: This refers to the security status of whichever device an employee uses to log in, including the OS or browser version, disk encryption, antivirus status, and whether the employee has logged in on this device before.

Geographic Location: The physical location of a remote employee matters to your security posture. If an employee who usually logs in from their home office network in the U.S. tries to authenticate from outside the country, location-based security would flag this as suspicious and not allow access.

Individual User’s Risk Score: Citrix Secure Private Access uses security analytics to monitor employee behavior and create user patterns. If a user’s behaves differently from their typical pattern, such as failing authentication, connecting from new devices or locations, accessing different apps, or performing unusual actions, that user’s risk score increases. This helps identify compromised users, compromised endpoints, or insider threats.

This adaptive authentication enables a better user experience by providing hybrid employees with a secure, VPN-less connection to essential business apps — without altering their preferred workflows.

Enabling ZTNA to Protect Hybrid Workers and Sensitive Data

This simplified user experience is what end users will notice most about Citrix Secure Private Access. However, behind the scenes, Citrix Secure Private Access strengthens your security posture by enabling ZTNA to your SaaS, web, client/server and DaaS applications. Here are additional ZTNA security features that Citrix Secure Private Access offers to protect end users and sensitive data:

Browser Isolation: Anytime one of your apps requires additional security safeguards, you can launch it inside an isolated browser hosted inside Citrix Cloud. This browser is completely separate from your corporate network to prevent malicious content from breaching it. Common use cases for this feature include using an app to access financial data that needs to not leave a trace, or when a user’s role requires them to access potentially risky sites like social media.

Endpoint Management: This enables you to verify trusted endpoints that meet your security standards and not trust unrecognized endpoints by default. When employees log in with trusted endpoints, they can access all their apps with your safeguards fully in place. Untrusted endpoints or those located in foreign countries can have their access restricted or prevented.

Custom Security Policies: For more granular data protection, you can customize user privileges to disable operations like downloading, printing, or copying and pasting text. Citrix Secure Private Access also blocks malware like key loggers, screen scrapers, and other tools that can steal personally identifiable information.

Deliver a Great UX with Citrix Secure Private Access

As you look to strengthen your security posture with ZTNA, you cannot neglect the importance of a streamlined user experience. Citrix Secure Private Access offers both strong access security and an exceptional user experience through adaptive and robust authentication that doesn’t rely on a VPN.

To learn more about how Citrix Secure Private Access delivers a great, secure employee experience with ZTNA, watch these videos.