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Citrix Secure Gateway 3 Review |
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Wednesday, 27 September 2006
by Michel Roth
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Wilco van Bragt did a review on the Citrix Secure Gateway 3: With Web Interface (WI) you can easily present your applications to users via the Internet. But only using WI is not completely secure. When the user clicks one of the application icons normal ICA traffic (on port 1494) is started. You are right to mention that the ICA traffic can be secured, but the 128 bit encryption method used by Citrix is not the strongest one. Therefore Citrix developed Citrix Secure Gateway (CSG), now at version 3. The Citrrix Secure Gateway encapsulates all ICA traffic in a SSL bundle. SSL is still the security standard and is using port 443, which is allowed as inbound traffic on almost every infrastructure. Normally many organizations will be blocking port 1494.
Version 3 is released after Citrix Presentation Server 4. The expectation this will be the latest version of Citrix Secure Gateway, because the functionality is also available within the Citrix Access Gateway appliance. If you already using version two, not many things are changed. The new version now support Session Reliability and the STA functionality is now implemented within the Citrix Presentation Server software it selves.
Check it out here.
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