FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – July 30, 2025 – Citrix, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, Inc., today announced two new offerings that help enterprises provide secure application access for their entire workforce across an evolving threat landscape. Building on its rich heritage of supporting customers where they are, Citrix continues to drive innovation and evolve to meet the dynamic needs of modern enterprises around the world, empowering IT leaders to drive growth within their organizations.
Citrix introduces its post-quantum cryptography (PQC) solution for NetScalerⓇ, previewed to all interested customers since April 2025, to address the emerging threat of quantum computing to current cryptographic standards. Citrix is also announcing the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops™ (CVAD) 2507 Long Term Service Release (LTSR) – delivering access to new features, platform support, and performance improvements while maintaining stability and long-term support.
Together, these new offerings further extend Citrix’s considerable experience helping businesses secure access to work, equipping enterprises facing evolving threats, complex regulations, and agentic AI work with seamless, secure access to applications and data, so employees can work efficiently and productively whenever and wherever they may be.
“Secure access for your workforce and app delivery to all endpoints have been at the center of our business for over three decades, turning attack surfaces into secure surfaces and working to minimize threats as IT environments evolve and adapt,” said Sridhar Mullapudi, co-president and General Manager at Citrix. “Securing the work for organizations globally is the heart of what Citrix is today and who we have always been. Today’s announcement reaffirms our ongoing commitment to be a partner to the modern CxO of the modern enterprise.”
Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) with NetScaler
Current encryption standards will be no match for quantum computers, which will be able to crack standards like RSA or ECDHE in hours. While commercialization of quantum computers may still be years away, attackers are already collecting encrypted data, with harvest now - decrypt later attacks (HNDL), meaning business-critical data is potentially sitting in a bad actor’s data warehouse waiting for quantum decryption.
Meanwhile, only 5% of organizations have a roadmap to address quantum computing. This isn’t a challenge for tomorrow’s CISOs but rather a strategic imperative and infrastructure planning requirement for today’s business leaders.
Citrix is enabling enterprises to get ahead of the quantum curve and secure tomorrow’s work today with one of the market’s first hybrid PQC encryption capabilities. Available through NetScaler version 14.1.51, the hybrid PQC solution (X25519 + ML-KEM768) is one of the first application delivery platforms to offer NIST-aligned and production-ready hybrid post-quantum cryptography, ensuring both quantum resistance and compatibility with current client browsers.
NetScaler with PQC support gives organizations a clear path to start their PQC transition now with full control of their timeline, rather than waiting for quantum computers in the hands of bad actors to force their hand, all through a single platform.
CVAD 2507 Long Term Service Release (LTSR)
With over 400 new features, improvements, and security updates since the last LTSR, version 2507 is Citrix’s most powerful release ever. In direct response to customer feedback, this release is also the start of a new cadence of LTSRs that helps businesses in a more seamless, proactive way, via:
- One LTSR every year
- Three total CVAD releases per year
- Three years of maintenance for each LTSR
Key features of CVAD 2507 LTSR include:
- Flexibility: With CVAD 2507, Citrix reinforces its commitment to flexibility through expanded support for a wider range of operating systems, including the latest versions of major platforms, providing more deployment options. Experience improved performance and greater scalability for critical applications, including unified communication, multimedia, and graphically intensive workloads, as well as improved provisioning across cloud and virtualization platforms.
- Insights: Deeper insights into HDX™ sessions, network conditions, and endpoint metrics. Microsoft Teams optimization, endpoint health, and reconnect behaviors are now more visible than ever. Session recording also gets a boost, with support for full-screen recording, web apps, print tracking, and idle events. From help desk to engineering, the visibility you gain with CVAD 2507 helps every team work smarter.
- Cost Optimization: IT budgets are under more pressure than ever, and CVAD 2507 introduces a range of features to help identify savings opportunities and act on them fast. All new cost modeling, workload rightsizing, and idle app reporting, with clear insights into what’s used (and what’s not). IT leaders can optimize spend across on-prem and cloud resources. Streamlined image management and provisioning processes across platforms reduce complexity and improve operational efficiency.
CVAD 2507 LTSR is scheduled for release in early August, 2025. You can learn more about these new offerings on the Citrix blog and Citrix’ What’s New Webinar.
About Citrix
Citrix, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, provides a secure app and desktop delivery platform that companies of all sizes can use to enable secure, flexible work. With Citrix, employees can work where and how they prefer, and IT can be confident their information and devices remain safe. Click here to learn more about Citrix solutions and the value they can provide.
For more information on the Citrix platform, please visit www.citrix.com.
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