My workspace journey
There are many technologies out there to continue letting let people work while stuck at home. A big part of the solution you use all comes down to what your typical day looked like. And by typical, I’m talking about life before lockdown. Where you an office-based user? What types of apps did you access?… Continue reading VPN Alternative for Web Apps
A user’s primary identity authorizes access to the Workspace. A username and password is not a strong authentication policy. Passwords are problematic. We know we need to provide multi-factor authentication. And within Citrix Workspace, the options continue to expand. So far, I’ve been able to demonstrate how to integrate the following with Citrix Workspace: Active… Continue reading Citrix Workspace Authentication: Duo
I have one primary key to let me into my house. Once I’m inside my house, I can see many resources that I might want to use like a bed, bathroom, safe, TV and a freezer. However, some of these resources are secured with a different key. I might have a code to access NetFlix.… Continue reading Citrix Workspace Authentication: Federated Authentication Services
One of my goals before the end of the year is to protect my online accounts with multi-factor authentication. I’ve been protecting many of my identities with TOTP. TOTP is a great way to add multi-factor authentication to our identity. It adds the “something I have” to the “something I know”. However, I’m now running… Continue reading Authentication: Push
None of us likes starting over. So if we don’t have to, why would we? Unfortunately, with technology, many of us are forced to to follow a single path. That single path often requires us to start over. But this is one of the interesting things about Citrix Workspace and the user’s primary identity… Don’t… Continue reading Citrix Workspace Authentication: Okta
One of the major issues with the current state of the end user computing environment is the number of identities a user is required to remember. Almost every service or application a user subscribes to requires the user create a new identity and password. With so many identities, almost all of us use the same… Continue reading Citrix Workspace Authentication: Overview
One of the challenges with using cloud services is getting the same experience you had in an on-premises deployment. For the past 20+ years, many Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop deployments utilized a Citrix Gateway to provide an ICA proxy through the firewall. For external users, Gateway also authenticated those users. Over the years, admins… Continue reading Citrix Workspace Authentication: Citrix Gateway
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear… TOTP ≠ OTP OTP = One-Time Password TOTP = Time-based One-Time Password As discussed in the Two-Step Verification post, OTP sends the one-time password to the user’s mobile phone via SMS or to the user’s email address. TOTP, on the other hand, uses a local app on the mobile… Continue reading Authentication: TOTP
Your workspace contains your desktop, your apps and your data. Connecting to your workspace is through Workspace app. What if I’m on a traditional PC? You use Workspace app. What if I’m on a mobile device? You use Workspace app. What if I’m on a public kiosk? You use Workspace app. To get a better… Continue reading Workspace App
In case you missed it, the focus for end user computing is no longer VDI or endpoint management. It is now Workspace. I’ve been using a digital workspace for years. Actually, it might be more accurate to say I’ve been using a digital workspace for decades. Let me show you: What I consider my first… Continue reading The Workspace
