Citrix® Platform Flex

Citrix SecurSpaces™ Flex

Deliver secure Linux environment sandboxes for developers and agentic workloads with flexible, predictable spend, helping organizations accelerate onboarding, securely deploy agents, reduce endpoint risk, and simplify cost management.

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Secure Linux workspaces for development

Developers and their agents need speed and flexibility. IT and security teams need control, governance, and predictable spend. Citrix SecurSpaces Flex brings those needs together by providing hosted, secure Linux sandboxes delivered through Citrix Platform Flex and accessible from any device.

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The challenge

Modern development environments can be slow to provision, difficult to standardize, and risky when AI agents, source code, data, and credentials live directly on endpoints.

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The shift

Citrix runs the platform and environments. Teams consume the right workspace capacity for each developer or AI agent through the Citrix Platform Flex operating model.

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The outcome

With no infrastructure to stand up, teams can deploy faster. Developers or AI agents get ready-to-use environments in minutes, while IT improves governance, reduces platform operations, and aligns spend with actual usage.

CASE STUDY

Scaling secure development across the enterprise

A global engineering organization is modernizing 95% of its developer environments with Citrix SecurSpaces—offering a secure and scalable path to innovation. Standardized environments can be provisioned in minutes, helping improve security, AI agent governance, and developer productivity.

Built to deliver productivity and enterprise control

Modernize development environments without requiring IT teams to build, run, and scale the platform.

Security and governance

Reduce endpoint and data exposure risk

Human or agentic development activity runs inside secure Linux workspaces instead of directly on the endpoint, helping reduce exposure to source code, data, credentials, and unmanaged data access.

  • Keep development activity and data away from unmanaged or high-risk endpoints.

  • Standardize development environments with consistent policy control.

  • Support secure human and agentic development workflows.

Why security matters

Developer environments often contain sensitive code, data, credentials, secrets, build tools, repository access, and AI- assisted activity. Citrix SecurSpaces Flex helps organizations preserve agility while giving IT stronger guardrails, visibility, and governance for modern workflows.

Productivity

Work from day one

Ready-to-use workspaces help developers and AI agents onboard faster instead of spending days or weeks setting up and maintaining local environments.

  • Deliver consistent Linux environments for development.

  • Reduce setup friction for onboarding and project changes.

  • Builds and runs inside the workspace.

Why productivity matters

Developers and their AI agents need environments that are reliable, available, and aligned to their work. Citrix SecurSpaces Flex gives teams a standardized path to productive development and analysis without sacrificing enterprise control.

Operational simplicity

Hosted delivery, simplified operations

Citrix runs the platform and workspaces, reducing the internal effort required to provision, maintain, and scale secure Linux environments.

  • Reduce the need to build and operate the hosting layer internally.

  • Scale capacity with less platform operations burden.

  • Move from evaluation to rollout faster than with a self-operated model.

Why simplicity matters

Instead of relying on a patchwork of development tools, analytics tools, and platforms, IT teams can use Citrix SecurSpaces Flex to deliver secure Linux environments through one hosted model, simplifying delivery while maintaining governance and spend discipline.

Predictable spend

Flexible capacity by need

Citrix SecurSpaces Flex uses the Citrix Platform Flex model to help customers assign the right workspace capacity to the right user needs, avoiding one-size- fits-all delivery.

  • Align workspace sizing to project or workload needs.

  • Know the cost up front: each workspace maps to a defined vCPU and RAM profile with a published Citrix Platform Flex credit rate.

  • Scale workspace capacity as requirements change.

  • Improve budget visibility for IT and finance teams.

Why predictable spend matters

Infrastructure and cloud spend are under greater scrutiny. Citrix SecurSpaces Flex helps customers estimate costs more accurately with published Citrix Platform Flex credit rates for each workspace size. Customers can consume secure Linux workspaces through a flexible, predictable credit model.

Key benefits of Citrix SecurSpaces Flex

Lower security risk

Move development activity away from endpoints to help protect source code, data, credentials, and repository access.

Faster onboarding

Give developers ready-to- use secure workspaces with standardized environments.

Optimize spend

Replace over-provisioned laptops and optimize Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and unused cloud resources with right-sized workspaces aligned to actual usage.

Target use cases

Pair Citrix SecurSpaces Flex with Citrix DaaS Flex

Developers can use a virtual desktop or application for daily tasks such as email, documents, and collaboration, and a Citrix SecurSpaces workspace for human or agentic coding, builds, and testing. Each technology does what it does best, tracked under a single unified Citrix Platform Flex credit pool.

Secure agent sandboxes, one control plane

Deploy secure sandboxes for AI agents used in coding and non-coding workflows under a single control plane. The platform provides full workspace observability, native data loss prevention, controlled ingress and egress, and active data exfiltration prevention, making it easier to deploy and govern agents securely.

Move development forward with less complexity

Citrix SecurSpaces Flex provides right-sized workspaces optimized for human and agentic software development, complementing existing Citrix desktop and application delivery technologies. As part of Citrix Platform Flex, Citrix SecurSpaces Flex helps customers and partners spend less time running infrastructure and more time delivering modern, secure software at scale.

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