Citrix and Chrome OS are joining forces to enable greater employee productivity through secure and seamless access to all your apps apps and the internet for all your employees everywhere, all while reducing the burden on IT. Chrome OS devices are providing an increasing number of organizations with built-in security functions and simpler device management. Citrix and Chrome OS devices broaden the variety of available apps and adds multi-layer cybersecurity protection for users everywhere.
The partnership between Citrix and Chrome OS will deliver IT modernization that spans from endpoint devices to enterprise security architecture to apps. This will empower employees to be more productive, while protecting the enterprise against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats.
It Starts with a Modern Device
Chrome OS devices are mobile, secure, and easy to manage. Cloud profiles, regular background updates, and access to popular productivity apps help employees work effectively from anywhere. And with no imaging required, Chrome OS devices deploy quickly; zero-touch enrollment allows IT to ship devices that automatically enroll into the enterprise domain. In fact, by adopting Chrome OS devices, enterprises can reduce deployment, upgrade, and training costs that result in a savings of up to $482 per device per year*. With built-in and proactive security features like data encryption, Google Safe Browsing, and the Google-designed Titan C chip, Chrome OS devices deter users from falling victim to harmful attacks and protect business data.
Empower Employees with Seamless Access to Apps
Windows and/or Linux apps, including many “homegrown” apps, continue to be a key component for many lines of business. The Citrix Workspace app on Chrome OS devices extends access to all apps, even apps that were designed for Windows and Linux operating systems. The combined solution ensures that employees have simple, one-click access to all the apps they need to succeed, from any Chrome OS device.
For organizations like Synchrony Financial, this combination of Citrix and Chrome OS devices enabled business continuity at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company moved fully staffed contact centers to remote around the world within a month, all while maintaining high customer service levels.
Stronger Multi-Layered Security, Everywhere
In addition to a robust endpoint security posture on the Chrome OS device, Citrix Secure Internet Access protects every worker with a comprehensive, cloud-delivered security service, delivered through 100+ points of presence (PoPs) globally. This means that employees will be protected by Secure Web Gateway, CASB, Firewall, Sandboxing, Data Loss Prevention, and more, consistently, wherever they are. This combination of protection on a Chrome OS device and through Citrix Secure Internet Access delivers stronger multi-layered security against even the most advanced cyberthreats. Finally, because Citrix Secure Internet Access is cloud-delivered, there’s no security hardware to manage or update. The architecture scales with the business, at the velocity of the business.
Simplify Your Operations
Citrix Workspace and Citrix Secure Internet Access are natively supported on Chrome OS devices. As a result, it takes minutes to activate Citrix functionality on a Chrome OS device, without significant operational overhead for IT. Administration of both the Chrome OS and Citrix deployments is done through intuitive, centralized, cloud-delivered management planes. This simplification of operations means that skilled resources in IT can be leveraged to deliver more strategic business initiatives.
Citrix and Google: Partnering for Your Success
The teams at Google and Citrix are working together to drive success at enterprises. Our common goal is to simplify and accelerate enterprise modernization efforts, from endpoint devices to the security architecture to apps, to create a more productive, secure, and agile organization that breeds innovation. At Citrix, we have helped more than 400,000 organizations across 100 countries to create a better place to work, and we’d like to support you, as well. Please reach out if you’d like to learn more, and check out the latest Citrix security innovations on our Citrix Launchpad: Security page.
* ESG Economic Value Validation: Quantifying the Value of Google Chromebooks with Chrome Enterprise Upgrade
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