By partnering with Citrix, FEITIAN now provides a better and more secure Authentication Solution

Nov 23th, 2020

Beijing, China - November 22, 2020 - FFEITIAN is pleased to announce its partnership with Citrix along with FEITIAN FIDO2 Security Keys being certified by Citrix Ready program.

Over the last few years, FEITIAN has worked together with large enterprises, such as Microsoft and Google, to provide clients a securer authentication solution that eliminates passwords, the FIDO security key, with which end-user can add a second factor authentication to protect their accounts. Ever since Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is offered by Microsoft as the FIDO authentication option, more and more cloud-based services, like Citrix Workspace, now are supporting the FIDO security key.

A few months ago, Citrix introduced FIDO2 as its end-to-end passwordless authentication. “FIDO2 supports in the virtual session was recently released in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 2009 and the corresponding Citrix Workspace App for Windows 2009.5”. The newly supported features enable a passwordless experience for users needing to access virtual apps and desktops. In the future of work, more APPs, services, and resources are being delivered through the cloud. Citrix workspace is dedicating to making this future of work come true. And Citrix cloud has transformed IT works form via providing a unified platform of all Citrix services. With the integration of the FEITIAN FIDO security key, Citrix now is able to deliver a streamlined, highly secure, and intelligent cloud platform.

In the future, high cybersecurity risks will still be a thorny problem since phishing, ransomware and other cyberattacks are continuously existing. To secure your organization, FEITIAN FIDO security key offers a great way to authenticate who you are and provides access to critical applications, services, and data. With the deployment of FIDO security key passwordless authentication through Microsoft Azure Active Directory and the advantages of FEITIAN biometric security keys, users are finally able to authenticate Citrix Workspace without passwords!

About FEITIAN

Founded in 1998, FEITIAN Technologies has its US headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. The company is dedicated to building a full range of strong authentication, identification, and payment solutions using a variety of Security Key and Smart Card formfactors. FEITIAN is a member of Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), a Board Member of the FIDO Alliance, and is a Technology Partner for Google. FEITIAN is a leading worldwide provider of Fingerprint Biometric Passwordless Authentication. Globally, the company has over 1,000 employees, more than half of whom are focused on research and development. FEITIAN serves clients in over 150 countries with leading enterprise, financial, telecom, government, education organizations.

About Citrix

Citrix is powering a better way to work with unified workspace, networking, and analytics solutions that help organizations unlock innovation, engage customers, and boost productivity, without sacrificing security. With Citrix, users get a seamless work experience and IT has a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments. Citrix solutions are in use by more than 400,000 organizations including 98 percent of the Fortune 500.