IP Protection, Secure Partner Collaboration and 
$4 Million in Cost Savings

As an alternative, a split-farm deployment of Citrix was considered, but was determined to be cost prohibitive.

Critical Success Factors

• Streamline the process for partners to access data through Citrix servers 
• Enforce appropriate use of data according to business workflows 
• Gain visibility into where data resided, where it was used, and by which people or processes 
• Allow simple access to data with appropriate privileges, while preventing critical data from being used improperly or stolen 
• Enable privileged users in IT to perform upgrades and maintenance without compromising data security

The Solution

Citrix was a logical technology for accessing the organization’s data, but only under three conditions: 

• The use of other, unauthorized applications must be prohibited 
• Users must only have access to data for which they had a legitimate business use 
• Users must only be able to use the data in approved ways 

Fortra™’s Digital Guardian® worked with its customer to document legitimate data flow models and build DG policies to support them. Context-based data awareness and content inspection features were used to identify and classify all data in the system. With Digital Guardian agents installed on virtualized Citrix desktops and servers, all policies were enforced at the endpoint. This allowed users and applications to use data freely, but only in authorized transactions. For example, users could move data to specific, approved drives, but attempts to move data to unapproved drives would be blocked.