A lot of companies have multiple enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions. They use Microsoft Endpoint Manager (formerly Intune) to manage Office 365 apps (and potentially manage devices), they’re using another solution to manage Windows 10 devices, and potentially a third solution for their BYOD program.
The problem? Most EMM solutions don’t work well together. IT must manage multiple environments that don’t communicate with, and potentially conflict with, each other. This creates additional IT complexity and operational challenges.
Together, Citrix Workspace with Citrix Endpoint Management (CEM) and Microsoft Endpoint Manager give IT admins full endpoint management options. You can integrate Microsoft Endpoint Manager with Citrix Workspace in several ways, helping IT get the most out of their investments. Let’s take a look at some of the ways Citrix Workspace enhances and extends Microsoft Endpoint Manager:
Citrix Endpoint Management as an MDM Agent
Our “must-have” configuration within Citrix Workspace is Citrix Endpoint Management mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM), along with Microsoft Endpoint Manager MAM. In this setup, devices are MDM enrolled with CEM, mobile SaaS apps are MAM enrolled with CEM, and Office 365 apps are MAM enrolled with Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
This configuration brings together mobile device management and app management giving IT admins the best of both worlds. By integrating Microsoft Endpoint Manager and Citrix Endpoint Management, you have a deeper set of MDM policies, the ability to manage more device types, SaaS app control capabilities, additional Citrix Analytics capabilities, and seamless interaction between the Citrix mobile productivity apps, Office 365 apps and line-of-business apps.
Using Citrix Endpoint Management as the MDM agent gives companies the ability to manage more device types, including Windows 10, MacOS, iOS, iPadOS, Android, ChromeOS, tvOS, IoT and Citrix Ready workspace hub (Raspberry Pi-based) devices. With more than 200 MDM policies, Citrix Endpoint Management gives companies more options to secure devices for a broader range of use cases.
Additional Security Controls
When it comes to secure SaaS apps, some organizations are successful with securing access but remain at risk regarding the content within the SaaS application. Citrix Workspace with Citrix Secure Workspace Access enables IT admins to provide a robust set of additional security controls. You have access to enhanced policies such as personally identifiable watermarks across all content and additional controls that restrict the user from copying and pasting as well as downloading sensitive content. You also have the ability to define the access policy for external website to allow, block, or redirect potentially risky internet browsing to an isolated web browser via the Citrix Secure Browser service within Citrix Workspace.
A Unified View into Risk
Citrix Workspace includes Citrix Analytics — integrated with Microsoft Graph Security — which enables you to leverage massive amounts of threat intelligence and security data to keep your sensitive resources protected. This integrated Citrix and Microsoft solution gives you a unified risk profile for each user by integrating user-based machine learning to identify suspicious behavior, establish risk indicators across Citrix and Microsoft services, and alert IT of any potential risks. With this capability, admins can take immediate action across both portfolios to mitigate a threat and can even formulate policies to take autonomous, closed-loop actions, leaving behind the need for time-consuming, manual intervention.
Microsoft Endpoint Manager and Citrix Endpoint Management’s micro VPN
Another key integration point is Citrix Endpoint Management’s micro VPN, which can be applied to Microsoft Endpoint Manager-aware apps such as Microsoft Managed Browser (with Edge Browser coming soon). With this integration, organizations can wrap their own line of business apps with Citrix and Microsoft Endpoint Manager to offer micro VPN capabilities inside a single MAM container. Citrix Endpoint Management micro VPN enables apps to securely and easily access on-premises resources. With this capability, Citrix mobile productivity apps, Office 365 apps, and line-of-business apps can live in one container, delivering ultimate security and productivity.
The workforce of the future is cloud-enabled and mobile. But that means more attack surfaces, apps, and devices to monitor and manage. Together, Microsoft and Citrix give you the tools to empower your IT admins and customers and eliminate the complexity that often stands in the way of productivity.
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