Citrix® Platform Flex

Citrix SecurSpaces™ Flex

Deliver secure development workspaces alongside the enterprise’s agentic execution layer, enabling developers, AI engineers, and knowledge workers to accelerate onboarding, deploy autonomous agents, and reduce endpoint risk with predictable spend.

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Secure agentic 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

Securing endpoints, agentic workflows, and enterprise data across developers, AI engineers, and knowledge workers is difficult to standardize, leaving organizations exposed when autonomous agents, code, and credentials reside on local devices.

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The shift

Citrix runs the platform, providing sandboxes for agentic workloads and secure dev environments. Teams consume tailored workspace capacity for any employee or autonomous agent through the Citrix Platform Flex operating model.

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The outcome

With no infrastructure to stand up, organizations deploy faster. Employees and autonomous agents gain ready-to-use workspaces in minutes, while IT improves governance, eliminates endpoint risk, and aligns spend with actual usage.

CASE STUDY

Scaling SecurSpaces 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 and agentic execution across your enterprise without requiring IT to build, manage, or scale infrastructure.

Security and governance

Reduce endpoint and data exposure risk

Human or agentic activity runs inside secure workspaces instead of directly on the endpoint, helping prevent data leakage; unauthorized access and exposure of sensitive enterprise assets and credentials; and unmanaged data access.

  • Keep sensitive workflows and enterprise data away from unmanaged or high-risk endpoints.

  • Standardize environments across teams with consistent policy control.

  • Support secure human and agentic development workflows.

Why it matters

Workspaces often contain sensitive assets, enterprise data, credentials, secrets, repository access, internal tools and autonomous agent 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, knowledge workers, and AI engineers 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 it matters

Employees 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, automation, and analysis while maintaining 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 workspaces.

  • 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 it 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 Credits 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 it 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-based model.

Key benefits of Citrix SecurSpaces Flex

Lower data security risk

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

Faster onboarding

Give developers, knowledge workers, and AI engineers ready-to-use secure workspaces with standardized environments.

Optimize spend

Replace over-provisioned laptops and replace or 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 Credits pool.

Secure agent sandboxes, under one control plane

Run AI agents for coding and non-coding workflows in isolated workspaces under a single control plane. Each agent works with a restricted filesystem and only the resources its task requires, while sensitive session tokens stay outside the agent's environment. Native data loss prevention and controlled ingress and egress keep code and data where they belong, with visibility into agent activity and AI consumption.

Let autonomous AI agents do real work, privately

Give AI agents a private, enterprise-controlled place to run complex, long-running work such as software modernization, where agents analyze code, make changes, build, test and validate in repeated cycles. Citrix SecurSpaces Flex keeps you in control of the tools, dependencies and data agents use, and gives you verifiable evidence of what was executed, built and tested.

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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