Citrix has been certified under the federal government’s cloud computing program to offer digital workspace software products designed to help agencies manage virtual desktops and information technology applications. The company said Monday its Cloud Government and Desktop as a Service offerings received Moderate Status from the FedRAMP Program Management Office and Joint Authorization Board. Government […] More

Citrix has received approval from the Defense Information Systems Agency to offer an application delivery controller technology for Department of Defense use in collaboration and communication functions.

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Stan Black, chief security and information officer at Citrix, has said the company was informed by the FBI on Wednesday that international cyber hackers may have accessed and downloaded documents through a tactic that uses weak passwords called password spraying. Black wrote in a blog post published Friday that Citrix has launched a forensic investigation, sought the help of a cybersecurity firm and initiated actions to protect its internal network in response to the incident.
 

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Peter Sacripanti, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, and former Salesforce Chief Financial Officer Graham Smith have joined the board of directors at Citrix. Citrix said Tuesday Sacripanti, chair of the executive committee of McDermott Will & Emery, will serve on the audit and finance committees of Citrix and Smith on the compensation committee. “Both are highly accomplished business […] More

Faisal Iqbal, public sector chief technology officer for Citrix, has outlined a number of steps for government agencies to combat cyber attacks. Iqbal wrote in an opinion piece for Federal News Radio published Tuesday that there is a need for agencies to adopt personal identity verification cards and multifactor authentication through software-defined workspaces. He noted that […] More

A Citrix-commissioned survey says 88 percent of the American workforce use company-issued computers and mobile devices that are not equipped with corporate security software. Wakefield Research polled at least 1,000 people in July and found that more than 60 percent of them lack response plans to address possible data thefts, Citrix said Tuesday. “Educating the […] More

The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has moved to adopt a Citrix-built platform in an effort to centralize mobile device management operations, GCN reported Thursday. Stephanie Kanowitz writes ORNL mobile managers previously used two different MDM services to manage the national lab“™s bring-your-own-device initiative and laboratory-owned devices but decided to implement the Citrix-developed tool […] More

Dynetics is now a Citrix Silver Solution Adviser as part of the companies’ partnership to address the growing demand for mobile capabilities by offering virtual desktop, mobile workspace and cloud networking services. Nichole O’Brien, Dynetics’ information engineering branch manager, said Monday that the company aims to help an increasingly mobile workforce adopt new security, optimization and mobility tools. She added that virtualization supports […] More

Citrix has opened a new 170,000-square-foot office in Raleigh, North Carolina’s warehouse district that will house Citrix Mobile Workspace tools and work to integrate Citrix technologies. The company said it aims to facilitate creativity, productivity, collaboration and employee engagement as well as highlight its vision of a mobility-enabled enterprise. “Raleigh is experiencing tremendous business growth and has firmly established itself as […] More

Citrix has named Mike Singer to lead its defense team out of the company“™s regional headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. As new senior director for the Defense Department business, Singer will strive to help the company bring its products in line with market needs with his experience in the federal information technology industry, Citrix said Wednesday. Prior to […] More

Citrix Systems has gained approval from the General Services Administration for the company’s mobile workspace tool as a potential mobile device and application management source. XenMobile is built for users to manage mobile, Web and software applications, data and devices, Citrix said Wednesday. “Citrix XenMobile provides the flexibility and mobility that users require while meeting IT […] More

Citrix has won a Cloud Innovation Award for the company’s cloud infrastructure framework that is designed for private enterprise workloads. The awards are sponsored by NetEvents and Citrix was recognized at the NetEvents Cloud Innovation Summit awards dinner March 27 in Los Gatos, Calif., Citrix announced Thursday. Citrix’s CloudPlatform powered by Apache Cloudstack was chosen in […] More