This post was co-authored by Nathan Mote, Product Marketing Manager for Citrix Content Collaboration.

When the iPhone was launched in 2007, it set the world on fire, combining everything we needed to connect with our family, friends, and colleagues into a single, easy-to-use device, including a cell phone, a camera, a music player, and internet access. The smartphone has continued to evolve, and most of us can’t imagine life without it.

Smartphones make our lives easier, and the same technology behind them can simplify our lives at work. With Citrix Content Collaboration within the Citrix Workspace, for example, you can give your end users freedom to access, sync, and share files securely and easily from anywhere using any device in a consumer-like manner.

Citrix Content Collaboration and Citrix Workspace provide integral capabilities for the modern worker and the admins who support them, including:

Unified access through Citrix Workspace: Create consistent, simplified access and collaboration to all the documents in your organization across physical devices, virtual apps and desktops, and networks.

Centralized workflows: Streamline and centralize feedback and approval workflows and electronic signatures within the Citrix Workspace into a transparent, single point of collaboration for teams.

Native desktop and email integrations: The Citrix Files for Windows and Mac, as well as Citrix Files for Outlook and Gmail, deliver desktop and email experiences that are natively integrated within the work processes you’re used to. Users can access all their files without requiring a full local sync, while also initiating critical native workflows like electronic signature and feedback and approvals, right from their native Windows Explorer and macOS Finder.

Connected content: Connecting external data repositories into the Citrix Workspace via Content Collaboration is a game-changing benefit for end users, giving them visibility into all their files and data from a single, secure interface. Organizations can leave files stored in network shares and liberate them without the need for VPN access or migration. Citrix Content Collaboration within Citrix Workspace provides access to these files directly alongside files and folders stored within Citrix cloud repositories, as well as other cloud repositories like OneDrive for Business, Box, and Google Drive.

Security and Reliability with Citrix Content Collaboration

Your end users get all of that, delivered in a secure and reliable way that doesn’t inhibit productivity or the employee experience.

User security: Users are protected through native login and security capabilities like password policies, two-step verification options, and integrations with many identity providers (IdP) via SAML.

Data security: Data is encrypted at rest and in transit, with options for customers to manage their encryption keys through an integration with Amazon Key Management Services (KMS) when leveraging cloud storage. Citrix Content Collaboration also provides:

  • A built-in, lightweight Information Rights Management capability that balances user experience and security
  • Encrypted e-mail to further protect e-mail data
  • Integrations with leading data-loss prevention (DLP) and cloud-access security broker (CASB) vendors.

Mobile security: Citrix Content Collaboration offers native mobile security capabilities without requiring mobile device management (MDM), including remote wipe, restrictions on usage on modified or jail broken devices, and novel security capabilities like file self-destruct settings.

Secure collaboration: Secure connections and transactions on content (or file) operations are encrypted and protected with various access options, including enforcement of authentication on file access, limits on sharing options including number of downloads, and expiration. You can learn more about these capabilities in this security white paper.

Citrix Analytics service: Leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities, this built-in integration can help detect and prevent security threats, recognizing abnormal user behavior like excessive content downloads and suspicious access points, seen in many high-profile security incidents.

Citrix Workspace app: Access to content through the Citrix Workspace app adds advanced security controls like watermarking for sessions and content protection from keyloggers and screen scrapers. Like the myriad of features found in today’s smartphones, most of the security functions needed for a secure digital workspace are “built-in” to Citrix Workspace.

With Citrix Content Collaboration, you can serve up personalized access to the systems, information and tools your employees need, when and how they need them, in a secure and reliable way that improves engagement and productivity.

Get started today with a tour of Citrix Workspace!