Citrix Access Gateway

Citrix Access Gateway™ is the only SSL VPN to securely deliver any application with policy-based SmartAccess control. Users will have easy-to-use secure access to all of the enterprise applications and data they need to be productive and IT can cost effectively extend access to applications while maintaining security through SmartAccess application-level policies. With Access Gateway organizations are empowered to cost effectively meet the anywhere access demands of all workers – enabling flexible work options, easier outsourcing and non-employee access, and business continuity readiness – while ensuring the highest-level of information security.

Citrix Access Gateway Standard Edition is easy to deploy, simple to manage, and the most cost-effective secure remote access solution on the market. The Access Gateway appliance is deployed in an organization’s DMZ, and secures all traffic with standards-based SSL. Remote users connect via an easy-to-use, Web-downloaded and updated client, enjoying a rich desk-like experience. 

Citrix Access Gateway Advanced Edition extends access to more devices and users, including browser-only kiosk access and mobile devices.  Extensive SmartAccess capabilities provide flexible, highly granular policy based access control, including tight integration with Citrix Presentation Server™. 

Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition is the best solution for demanding enterprise environments, offering maximum scalability, performance, high-availability and management. Integrated application acceleration and optimization capabilities further increase remote access performance, whilst reducing costs.

Solve Your Remote Access Challenges
Access Gateway delivers the best access experience of any SSL VPN on the market:

Best user experience – Access Gateway was designed with the best user experience in mind to make access transparent. Single sign-on capabilities minimize the number of authentication prompts, making it easy to navigate to key resources and “Always-on access” ensures sessions are automatically reconnected after losing a network connection, or after users roaming between access points.

Single point of access – Access Gateway provides a single point of access to all applications and data - enabling access to resources such as Windows® applications delivered via Citrix Presentation Server™, client-server applications, e-mail, files shares, internal Web applications, and IP telephony services.

Cost effective – Access Gateway is fast, easy, and cost-effective to deploy and manage via its Web-deployed auto-updating client and intuitive management tools. Organizations can easily provide their remote users with desk-like access from any location – without the cost and complexity of installing, configuring, updating and supporting client software on each device.

Strengthened data security – Access Gateway offers a range of secure hardened appliances, all with standards-based SSL/TLS encryption and extensive authentication support, including 2 factor authentication tokens and smartcards. Integrated end-point scanning ensures that a device is safe to connect to the network. Eneterprise edition offers ICSA certification and option FIPS 140-2 certified hardware appliances.

The only SmartAccess SSL VPN
Robust endpoint analysis capabilities allow Access Gateway to detect the configuration and identity of the client device to determine the client machine trust, and scenario-based policies control the right level of access to applications and resources regardless of whether access is occurring from a company-issued laptop, home PC, or a shared terminal.

In addition, unique SmartAccess tightly controls Windows applications delivered by Presentation Server based on the configuration of the client machine, it’s location in the network, the identity of the user, and the access privileges of the user.  This offers IT the ability to implement intellectual property controls and prevent sensitive documents from being accessed or modified directly from untrusted client machines.

The best SSL VPN to use with Citrix Presentation Server
Citrix Access Gateway can be deployed with or without Citrix Presentation Server. When deployed with Citrix Presentation Server the Access Gateway can emulate the Presentation Server Secure Gateway feature, allowing direct connection from Citrix Presentation Server (ICA) clients. SmartAccess tightly controls Windows applications delivered by Citrix Presentation Server

Using Access Gateway with Citrix Presentation Server delivers the benefits of a hardened appliance-based universal SSL VPN, increasing security, extending user access, and reducing costs.

The best remote access solution
Citrix Access Gateway is the best remote access solution — from the most trusted name in secure on-demand access. No other SSL VPN offers such an efficient cost-effective remote access experience.