One of the unique new features of Citrix XenApp is Smart Auditor. The Smart Auditor feature of Citrix XenApp gives you the ability to capture all application screens of specific users or applications based on a number of different factors. This information can be used for compliance, activity monitoring and problem resolution. This presention goes under the cover of the Smart Auditor feature to give you an inside look.

(click here to see the presentation in full screen)

You can learn more from the Smart Auditor's Administrator's Guide.

This is a continuation of an earlier post on XenApp Platinum related video interviews from Citrix Synergy.

As part of Synergy Underground project, we interviewed many of the people in the XenApp booth in the TechLab to talk about the different features and components of Citrix XenApp Platinum.

(Each of these videos were shot and streamed live to the Underground site via a Nokia N95 cell phone. The convenience and ability to stream live video directly to the net is the trade off for the lower audio and video quality. Read this post for an explanation of the process and a video on how the live streaming worked.)

Smart Auditor for Citrix XenApp with Kiran Kulkarni

Citrix Edgesight Monitoring for XenApp with Sean Connelly

Citrix EdgeSight for Load Testing with James Millington

At Summit in January I ran into an interesting Citrix partner - Xceedium.  It's a security company with an appliance product, called GateKeeper, that is complementary to XenApp.  It enforces security policy by providing compartmentalization and containment.

Say you are outsourcing development.  The GateKeeper provides capability they call "LeapFrog Prevention" to isolate and contain users to authorized applications and network devices.  So your outsourced developers can't do DNS look up, NFS mount, ICMP to LeapFrog to unauthorized areas and information.  It also provides tracking and reporting for compliance reasons. 

In a XenApp environment, their agent monitors each user process and prevents unauthorized apps from trying to leapfrog to another device.  They also provide tracking for all CLI and prevent unauthorized CLI, so it adds to the security features of XenApp at the application layer with control over the command line/infrastructure layer.

The GateKeeper is complementary to the SmartAuditor session recording feature of XenApp, adding keystroke logging and session recording for CLI.

For customers who have audit and compliance requirements, Xceedium is an extremely interesting addition to XenApp.  They're already verified Citrix Ready too.  As a bonus, Gatekeeper is Common Criteria certified to EAL3.

[www.xceedium.com]