Citrix Secure Private Access (formerly Citrix Secure Workspace Access) competitive pricing plans to help meet your business goals.Go beyond traditional security controls to keep your applications secure and your hybrid workforce productive with Citrix Secure Private Access. Try our pricing calculator to estimate the monthly cost to protect your users and data.
Citrix Secure Private Access Standard includes SSO to SaaS and web applications with multi-factor authentication, helping to reduce the odds of account compromise by 99.9%.
Citrix Secure Private Access Advanced: intelligently apply watermarking, clipboard access, download restrictions, site navigation controls, and more with adaptive access based on user location, device posture, and risk scores. Includes advanced multi-factor authentication natively with Citrix cloud for all non-virtual applications, as well as ZTNA access to TCP and UDP-based apps.
Citrix Secure Private Access was previously known as Citrix Secure Workspace Access, Citrix Access Control, Citrix Secure Internet Access.
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I work from home, so I remote into the work server to do my job from home. I am using its latest version.
When the COVID hit, it really helped us a lot. I work for the State of Illinois. We provide services and goods, and we had to get those out. So, it really helped us stay open during COVID and provide very important services and goods to the people of the State of Illinois.
The convenience of being able to work from home is most valuable. It is not really different from working in the office.
It is easy and simple, and it has got an easy interface. It is not hard to learn. With just three clicks, you log in, and you're there.
When everybody is trying to log in and work sometimes there is a little latency but not a whole lot. This latency also depends on the type of server you have, how may users are logging in and users' home connection (WIFI or Ethernet). If the weather is bad, sometimes, you can get disconnected. I log in every day and I don't usually have any issues unless it is really storming out and then it can be latent.
When we go to print, we have to go through secure print. The secure printing kind of takes a while. It is a little latent.
I have been using this solution for over a year.
It seems very stable. We have not had many issues with it. In the beginning, we did have some issues because we were not used to having that many people log in from home. So, we had to upgrade our server a little bit. Getting the resource or the server for all the people coming in from home was the only issue that we had in the beginning.
It is pretty scalable. I have been working with it for over a year, and scalability is there.
We have over 40,000 users. They are half of the State of Illinois employees. Around 50% of employees are currently working from home. It is currently being used very extensively. It is being used by CIOs and all kinds of state employees.
I don't know if we have any plans to increase its usage. I'm not in that position to make that decision, but I do know that in the beginning, we only had 10,000 people using it, and then it went to 20,000. Currently, we have got over 40,000 people using it, so it may be the way of the future. People like working from home, and you don't have to pay for that gas to go in. The businesses don't have to pay for the electricity and the booth space for the people. So, it may be the way of the future.
I've never had any issues with it. We do have a Citrix group that keeps in contact with the vendor. We do get regular updates and things like that.
We tried some VPNs, but they just didn't work so well. For some reason, we were having issues bumping up against the users home Internet connections and VPN. It was a hit and miss for a lot of people depending on the provider they had. Therefore, we wanted to go with something across the board that pretty much everybody could use, and we did go with Citrix. There are some people who are still using VPN, but almost everybody who is working from home is using Citrix.
It was straightforward. They sent us some instructions in an email. We followed that email, downloaded the software, and opened up the software. It was done in three clicks, and then we had to log in.
It was done in-house.
I would strongly suggest to at least try it. If you're a big corporation and you want a way for your people to be able to log in and get work done, try it, and give it a shot. It is a good product.
I would rate Citrix Secure Workspace Access a nine out of 10. It does pretty much what I needed to do, and it supports everything I need. Other than the secure printing and the latency on it, it is great.
