By Fredrik Brattstig @virtualbrat
2024 May 14 – As announced by Calvin Hsu, Citrix, at IGEL Disrupt24, the Citrix Enterprise Browser is now in technical preview on IGEL OS 12. Another browser, you might think, but the benefits of using the Citrix Enterprise Browser is to fulfill company policies, ensure compliance and the right access for your users to corporate data.
Top be able to use the Citrix Enterprise Browser, you will need to be logged in to Citrix Workspace. If you are not, then the browser will not work. While you are logged in, company policies will apply, and all your web traffic will be guarded and granularly controlled, ensuring security first for you as a user, and for the company.
The Citrix Enterprise Browser supports tunneling of web-traffic though NetScaler Gateways allowing intranet access even for external users, in a highly secure manner. It allows you to control browser policys, like preventing downloading of data, preventing copy/cut/paste, adding watermarking and using App Protection features, and it also gives you full control of making sure that the users device is fulfilling requirements when combined with the Citrix Device Posture Service. Before the user are able to login to the Citrix Workspace, Device Posture Service can validate that the device used for access fulfills designated security criteria, and then applies custom controls to web-site traffic. Its all about protecting corporate data!
A demo of the tech preview Citrix Workspace App 2404, which includes the Citrix Enterprise Browser for IGEL OS, is available by request, and IGEL together with Citrix are looking forward to releasing this exiting new feature for General Availability later this year.
I recorded a short video showing how the Citrix Enterprise Browser works on IGEL OS 12, which also includes instructions on how to add a shortcut for the user to directly access the Citrix Enterprise Browser, stand alone. Keep in mind, for the browser to work, the user needs to be signed in to Citrix Workspace.
To add a shortcut to the Citrix Enterprise Browser, you add a Custom Application, according to the below info
Icon name:
cwa
Command:
/services/cwa/opt/Citrix/ICAClient/ceb/CtxChromiumBrowser/CitrixEnterpriseBrowserYou have now provided a shortcut to the Citrix Enterprise Browser, which you can place on the Desktop/Start menu etc.
Now, lets dig in to the video, stay tuned for release info which will be announced at www.igel.com
That’s it for today!
/Fred
VirtualBrat 