What's new and upcoming with Citrix technology and features

CSPs have a new permission to control which administrators can view information in the customer dashboard. This permission allows CSPs to show or hide the customer dashboard for custom access administrators. Only full access administrators can add new customers.

VDI Insider threat Monitoring with SIEM Data Source events export You can now leverage the new Data Source events export workflow to export data source events in addition to the Risk Insights events. This enables Security and Security operations (SOC) admins to correlate data from Citrix VDI with organization’s networks, servers, endpoints and other digital assets, on SIEMs.  

Allow administrator to run dynamic session recording action on Citrix DaaS sites Administrators can now run dynamic session recording actions on Citrix DaaS sites and dynamically record users' virtual sessions. They can configure the action with a policy to automatically start recording user sessions in case of a risky activity by a given user gets detected by Citrix Analytics for Security.

Starting with this release, when you download the Universal Architecture build, you have the option to select between the Apple Silicon and Intel builds to support both, the Apple Silicon and Intel based Mac machines.

Admin feedback for Risk indicators occurrences Citrix Analytics for Security administrators can now report user risk indicators as helpful or not helpful by providing feedback on the indicators details panel. This feature enables administrators to report false positives, reduce noise for frequently triggered indicators, and share additional context with other administrators.

Previously, clicking virtual apps in the Citrix Workspace app triggered the Citrix Viewer where these apps would be available. If you open many apps, the apps or its instances opened in the Citrix Viewer. You can view the open apps by right-clicking the Citrix Viewer icon.

To create a machine catalog, you can now use an image shared by an another subscription in Azure environments.

The Citrix Workspace service continuity feature is now supported for the Safari browser. Users must install Citrix Workspace app for Mac and the Citrix Workspace web extension.

In addition to archiving and deleting recordings manually, you can now schedule site-level tasks to automatically archive and delete recordings on a regular basis. The enhancement simplifies administration and helps organizations improve efficiency and save costs.

Access assurance to support geofence blocklist The Safe and Risky location tabs are added under the Geofence settings. Safe location geofencing helps to identify and restrict access outside of a defined geofenced area. Risky location geofencing helps to detect and narrow down risky user access as per the organizations’s known behavior. Both Safe and Risky geofencings are backed by their own pre-configured custom risk indicators.