Citrix SSL VPN Receives Highest Level of ICSA Labs Certification; New Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition Receives ICSA 2.0 Certification for Secure Access Standards.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla. -- Citrix Systems Citrix Systems' (NASDAQ: CTXS) is an American technology company, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with subsidiary operations in California and Massachusetts, with additional development centers in Australia, India and the UK. , Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS CTXS Citrix Systems (NASDAQ stock ticker symbol) ), the global leader in access infrastructure solutions, today announced that ICSA See TruSecure. Labs, an independent division of Cybertrust, Inc., has certified its new Citrix Access Gateway(TM) Enterprise Edition for passing all the requirements of its rigid and demanding new 2.0 SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. security certification A certification issued by competent authority to indicate that a person has been investigated and is eligible for access to classified matter to the extent stated in the certification. testing criteria. Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition extends the company's leadership at the high end of the SSL VPN market with a new edition that adds increased scalability and performance for the most complex and demanding enterprise environments. The new Enterprise Edition joins an Access Gateway product line that became the fastest growing SSL VPN solution on the market in 2005, passing the previous market leader in total unit shipments in the second half of the year(1). Citrix was also named a visionary in the most recent Gartner Magic Quadrant The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner Inc., a US based research and advisory firm. It is designed to provide an unbiased qualitative analysis of a “markets’ direction, maturity, and participants. report for SSL VPN solutions(2). "ICSA Labs certification has long been a standard for excellence in the security industry," said Wes Wasson, vice president of marketing and product strategy, Application Networking Group, Citrix. "With this certification, Citrix Access Gateway customers will have a product that meets high standards for security, functionality and reliability." ICSA Labs tested Access Gateway Enterprise Edition against a set of security criteria elements that are defined for SSL VPN products protecting data confidentiality, authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. , and assuring integrity for network transactions. Specific areas of focus during version 2.0 of ICSA Labs testing, which was revised in April 2005, include analysis of: --SSL/TLS protocols and cryptography implementation --X.509 certificate handling --Authentication --Authorization --Session control and clean-up --Functional testing --Logging A full report detailing the rigorous certification requirements and technical criteria for SSL VPNs is available on ICSA Labs' Web site at www.icsalabs.com. "ICSA Labs upholds the strictest commitment to security standards set by a demanding industry, and Citrix is one of a select group of vendors that deliver a product that meets or exceeds ICSA Labs' rigorous 2.0 testing criteria," said Brian Monkman, SSL VPN Program Manager at ICSA Labs. "ICSA Labs SSL VPN 2.0 certification should assure Citrix's customers that their remote users are protected to the industry's highest standards when they use Access Gateway to access sensitive applications and data." About ICSA Labs ICSA Labs, an independent division of Cybertrust, Inc., offers vendor neutral testing and certification of security products for hundreds of the world's top security vendor products. The end-users of security technologies rely on ICSA Labs to authoritatively set and apply objective testing and certification criteria for measuring product compliance and reliability. The organization tests products in key technology categories such as anti-virus, firewall, IPsec VPN, cryptography, intrusion detection See IDS and IPS. and prevention, PC firewall, content security, SSL-VPN and Wireless. For more information about ICSA Labs, please visit: http://www.icsalabs.com. About Citrix Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and most trusted name in on-demand access. More than 160,000 organizations around the world use the Citrix Access Platform to provide the best possible access experience to any application for any user. Citrix customers include 100% of the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and individuals. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Citrix annual revenues in 2005 were $909 million. Learn more at www.citrix.com. For Citrix Investors This release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. which are made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Those statements involve a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks associated with revenue growth and recognition of revenue, products, their development and key strategic relationships, acquisition and related integration risks as well as other risks detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Citrix assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein. Citrix(R) and Citrix Access Gateway(TM) are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. (1) Infonetics Research "Network Security Appliances and Software Quarterly Worldwide Market Share and Forecasts for 3Q'05" by Jeff Wilson There are a number of people named Jeff Wilson.
(2) Gartner Research "Magic Quadrants for 3Q05 SSL VPN" by John Girard. December 08, 2005. |
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