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Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure Adds SmartAuditor Technology to Aid Regulatory Compliance

(Oct 22, 2007)--Citrix Systems announced SmartAuditor, a new feature of Citrix Presentation Server that helps enterprise customers monitor, record and play back specific application sessions as part of their ongoing risk management and regulatory compliance measures. By incorporating user activity auditing as a core property of a company’s existing application delivery infrastructure, SmartAuditor makes it easy for customers to demonstrate that employees are meeting established guidelines for information access, transaction integrity and intellectual property protection.

In a world where businesses run on applications and highly sensitive data flows easily across international boundaries, compliance and risk management have become increasingly important concerns to enterprises of all sizes. Companies in all industries now face a growing list of regulatory initiatives such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, Basel-II and GLBA designed to protect consumers, employees and investors from fraudulent acts. In this climate, security executives report that monitoring employee activity, conducting periodic security audits and protecting intellectual property are now among their top-five overall IT initiatives1. Unfortunately, the additional cost and complexity associated with these initiatives can often be prohibitive.

Using the new SmartAuditor feature, Presentation Server customers can now address many of these problems by setting policies that record specific application sessions based on a user’s role, the application being accessed or the sensitivity of the application transaction. When activated, SmartAuditor acts like a digital video recorder to capture screen activity from a user’s computer and store it in a small, digitally-signed, time-stamped video file that can later be analyzed and logged. By recording only relevant user sessions, SmartAuditor is far more efficient and practical than add-on auditing solutions, which often have large storage requirements, are difficult to manage and can be unwieldy to analyze during an audit.

While SmartAuditor is an important benefit for all enterprise customers, it is especially beneficial in industries like healthcare, financial services and government agencies that must meet stringent regulatory compliance standards and monitor suspicious activity to effectively safeguard company information. It is also valuable for monitoring functions that are outsourced or applications which involve highly sensitive customer information or high-value transactions.

SmartAuditor is one of many features that have made Citrix Presentation Server one of the most trusted solutions in the industry for ensuring regulatory compliance and data security. By centralizing all Windows applications in the corporate datacenter and delivering them virtually over the network, Presentation Server keeps sensitive application data safely under IT control rather than distributing it across thousands of end user PCs. By making data security a core property of their application delivery infrastructure, companies can avoid many unnecessary costs and greatly reduce the complexity of achieving regulatory compliance.

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