With its flexible clients, Ekran System provides effective solutions for tracking Citrix user activity. In addition to Citrix session recording, Ekran System delivers a comprehensive set of identity and access management features, real-time alerting, and incident response tool sets.
As a universal insider threat management platform, Ekran System supports virtual environments alongside physical ones, providing powerful solutions for employee monitoring and third-party security monitoring, as well as compliance with multiple security standards.
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Citrix monitoring software functionality overview
Citrix XenDesktop monitoring and control
Citrix monitoring software functionality overview
| Overview of functionality | |
|---|---|
| Installation: | |
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Citrix XenDesktop
| One client per virtual desktop via an automated license pool |
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Citrix XenApp
| One client per published app server |
| Session details: | |
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Citrix XenDesktop
| Hostname, username |
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Citrix XenApp
| Full details on remote IP address, hostname, username |
| Session recording: | |
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Citrix XenDesktop
| Video of user’s screen accompanied by activity details, including keystrokes and connected devices |
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Citrix XenApp
| Video of user’s screen accompanied by relevant activity details, including keystrokes |
| Identity verification: | |
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Citrix XenDesktop
| Two-factor authentication Secondary authentication for shared logins |
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Citrix XenApp
| Two-factor authentication Secondary authentication for shared logins |
| Access management: | |
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Citrix XenDesktop
| - |
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Citrix XenApp
| PASM |
| Alerts and notifications: | |
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Citrix XenDesktop
| Predefined templates and customizable rules around activity details |
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Citrix XenApp
| Predefined templates and customizable rules around relevant activity
parameters |
| Incident response: | |
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Citrix XenDesktop
| Live session view |
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Citrix XenApp
| Live session view |
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Citrix XenDesktop
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Citrix XenApp
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|---|---|---|
| Overview of functionality | ||
| Installation: | One client per virtual desktop via an automated license pool |
One client per published app server |
| Session details: | Hostname, username |
Full details on remote IP address, hostname, username |
| Session recording: | Video of user’s screen accompanied by activity details, including keystrokes and connected devices |
Video of user’s screen accompanied by relevant activity details, including keystrokes |
| Identity verification: | Two-factor authentication Secondary authentication for shared logins |
Two-factor authentication Secondary authentication for shared logins |
| Access management: | - |
PASM |
| Alerts and notifications: | Predefined templates and customizable rules around activity details |
Predefined templates and customizable rules around relevant activity
parameters |
| Incident response: | Live session view |
Live session view |
Citrix XenDesktop monitoring and control
Ekran System workstation clients can be installed on any live Citrix XenDesktop and included in system images to be preinstalled on any new virtual desktop.
The Ekran client allows you to verify user identity with tools for two-factor authentication and secondary authentication for shared logins. Once a session is allowed, the software records all user activity in a smart screen video format indexed with multilayer metadata:
- names of active applications
- opened URLs
- keystrokes
- connected USB devices (virtual and physical)
- and other details
When auditing or investigating an incident, you’ll have access to in-session and cross-session search options, fast-forward replay, and various standard and customizable reports to flag potential incidents.
To help you respond to incidents in a timely fashion, Ekran System Citrix employee monitoring software provides a broad set of alert templates along with the possibility to customize them and build your own rules.
When a user performs an abnormal or security-critical action, your team will be notified and provided with incident context so they can check what’s going on and respond immediately. For the most critical cases, alerts can be augmented with automated incident response actions, such as blocking the user, killing the application, and/or displaying a warning message.
Citrix XenApp monitoring and control
Ekran System is a well-thought-out solution for Citrix XenApp monitoring. Its Terminal Server client can be installed directly on a published application server, simultaneously recording all concurrent sessions and providing real-time incident detection and response.
The client can record Citrix sessions selectively, only recording for a range of users or host IP addresses or only recording those sessions outside of a white list. Each session recording includes a video recording of the user’s screen (showing all or only selected activities) indexed with details on activities, such as keystrokes or active window title.
Ekran System’s complex alerting system works not only for virtual desktops but for Citrix XenApp sessions as well. Besides alerting about potentially dangerous actions within a session, the system can notify your security team when a session is being established by specific users or from specific IPs. Critical alerts can trigger automated incident response actions such as terminating a session or blocking a user.
In addition to Citrix session monitoring, Ekran System provides powerful access management capabilities for Citrix XenApp published application servers. You can choose from a fully-functional privileged account and session management (PASM) tool set for granting temporary access, one-time passwords for emergency access, and access request workflow for even more control. Additionally, you can integrate your access management scheme with a ticketing system. You can verify user identity with Ekran System using two-factor authentication.
Ekran System benefits
As a powerful Citrix monitoring tool, Ekran System delivers a unique blend of detailed activity monitoring and auditing, access management, and identity management with its monolithic multi-functional endpoint-based agents empowering your Citrix security program.
In addition to Citrix environments, Ekran System also supports VMware and physical infrastructures in any hybrid
scheme. Learn more in the demo video below.
More Ekran System benefits:
Full desktop and server OS support. Supports a wide range of operating systems and any type of network architecture due to its flexible deployment scheme.
Comprehensive activity control. Delivers detailed multi-level user activity monitoring with strong access control and critical identity management features.
Low total cost of ownership. Simple and straightforward licensing adapts to your needs and deployment size. Ekran System includes floating endpoint licensing and a license pool with automated license provisioning/revoking.
Enterprise friendly. Includes enterprise-ready features such as multi-tenant deployment, high availability, advanced archiving, SIEM and ticketing system integration, and 24/7 support.