: RE: Is Citrix safe?
Citrix is not safe. End of story.
You can implement the Citrix Secure Gateway and Transaction Authority
for added protection. Get ready to do some serious group policy work
though. The key is to secure your servers in the farm, set up the CSG,
run it all over 128bit encryption
also take a look at www.securewave.com to help harden up Citrix
-Original Message-
From: "Tuttle, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jesper Sobol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:02:24 -0700
Subject: RE: Is Citrix safe?
Citrix is not safe. End of story.
You can implement the Citrix Secure Gateway and Transaction Authority
for added protection. Get ready to do some serious group policy work
though. The key is to secure your servers in the farm, set up the CSG,
run it all over 128bit encryption thru your SSL Nfuse
traffice.
Hope this helps...
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Subject: RE: Is Citrix safe?
I have run it in a very security aware environment in the past. Like
First off Citrix is not SSL based. Citrix is a third party product that
sits on top of Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 server. It can uses SSL.
It provides additional functionality over and above Terminal Services.
Citrix Metaframe is capable of using SSL and TLS for security. This can
be done in
I have run it in a very security aware environment in the past. Like
anything else you need to make sure you are up on your patches. If I
remember right in Metaframe XP there is a way to enroll client PCs so you
can limit who can connect to it. Another option would be to stick a VPN in
front of it.
This is a matter of MF version, OS platform and which Citrix components you
plan to incorporate in your Citrix environment to meet your needs. Citrix is
capable of basic to 128bit SSL/TLS encryption. Depending, if you plan to use
NFuse portal system and/or if you plan to implement NFuse outside of
