Integrating Chrome Enterprise Premium

In episode 176 of The Citrix Session, host Andy Whiteside, along with guest Geremy Meyers, dives into the transformative integration of Chrome Enterprise Premium into the Citrix platform. This episode explores how Citrix is enhancing browser management and security for enterprise environments, making it easier than ever for businesses to handle web and SaaS applications securely. Geremy, who oversees account technology specialists in the US, shares insights on the strategic partnership between Citrix and Google and the significant benefits it brings, such as improved malware detection, data loss prevention, and policy control within the Chrome browser. Tune in to learn how Citrix's latest move with Google can streamline operations and bolster security for companies leveraging Chrome Enterprise.

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Andy Whiteside: Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 176 of the Citrix session. I'm your host, Andy White, so I've been a long time. Haven't hosted one of these in a while. Bill's somewhere. I don't know if he's on vacation, or if he's traveling for

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Geremy Meyers: He's in. He's in South Florida. Yeah, we got

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Andy Whiteside: Oh!

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Geremy Meyers: Briefing we're doing tomorrow. Yeah.

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Andy Whiteside: Forget that. Yeah. So Bill's Bill is working for sure. In fact, he's doing something that I'm super passionate about. And that's our

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Andy Whiteside: 4 times a year, I say 4. Yes, I said, 4, 4 times a year. Citrix technology briefing that we host. It's kind of like an executive briefing. But it's really meant for a group kind of a group field trips. How I look at it and Bill is heading down there for that today. I guess he's probably knee deep in it. At this point

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Geremy Meyers: He? It's tomorrow. So I think he's probably on his way. I think there's a there might be some tonight. But yeah, the the fun kicks off tomorrow

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Andy Whiteside: Listen. If you're a Citrix customer and you want to know more from

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Andy Whiteside: program team, the the platform team people that live at Hq. All week long. Come to one of these things with us. I promise you'll learn a ton about what's going on currently and in the future at Citrix. And there's a lot of good stuff going on. We're gonna talk about something today that's kind of mind blowing and game changing. But I got Jeremy Myers with me. Jeremy runs all the account technology specialists, I think, for for the Us. Is that the right answer

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Geremy Meyers: Strategist. It's on the east coast, some of Canada. And this year it's it's actually a bit of the North Central, us, too, so I got some Wisconsin, some Minnesota.

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Geremy Meyers: Well, Chicago

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Andy Whiteside: And you know those people are interesting to me, because those are the ones that are probably most in alignment with what we are as a company. It's I want to get us closer to talking to those folks. Alright. Here we go, you ready

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Geremy Meyers: Start.

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Andy Whiteside: I know they graduated with 4.0 s. From college 5 years ago, but there's still a lot of things that we know. They don't know

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Geremy Meyers: Well, you know. Listen, even then we've got some folks who've been at Citrix for a long time, and they know a lot of stuff. But you know, the thing they don't know is, I mean, there's a lot in the ecosystem. I mean, right before we hopped on, we talked about Nvidia. Today, we're gonna talk about Google. I mean, there's just a lot going on in the space. And it's too much for one person or one ats, or even a group of folks to

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Andy Whiteside: It's too much for one person that's been doing it for 30 years. We have to have a whole team of people over here to do it, and even then we don't know it all. But, man, it's a lot. But the big opportunity to partner with you and your team is what I'm really putting out there and

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Geremy Meyers: You know what? Don't let me forget that? Because at the end of this, podcast. We're gonna circle back to that because we've got we're actually gonna we're actually gonna roll through this with

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Geremy Meyers: a joint customer, actually should be fun

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Andy Whiteside: Okay?

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Andy Whiteside: All right. Well, let me share my screen here, and I'll bring up the blog from today.

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Andy Whiteside: So today's blog is from a Guy named Hector Lima. I've heard, Hector it's from I don't know. We go March 18th so roughly a week or so ago, and it's really

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Andy Whiteside: your Citrix unite conference. The title of it is Welcome Google, Chrome, Enterprise, Google, Chrome Enterprise premium into the Citrix

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Andy Whiteside: platform. Be interested to see what you mean by platform here in a minute. But let me let me break this down. Real quick. Welcome. Google chrome Enterprise. I'm gonna put the word browser

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Andy Whiteside: premium into the Citrix platform. Jimmy, why'd you pick this blog

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Geremy Meyers: Well, for 2 reasons. Number one, it's it's Google. It's, you know, there's a partnership here that is.

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Geremy Meyers: that is pretty large for us. And second of all, you know, from a product perspective, there's a big integration that is happening. A lot of customers will get this on day, one depending what you own today. But there's some investment here some joint engineering that's going on that is related to the browser. And this seems to be the. This is the hot space, and and it right now

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, Jeremy, how many times in your career at and around Citrix, have you heard? When is Microsoft gonna buy you

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Geremy Meyers: I mean, I don't have that many fingers

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah.

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Geremy Meyers: It's bad or toes. It's a lot

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Andy Whiteside: Right. I don't know if you have any skin cells. No, that's probably not.

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Andy Whiteside: How many times since this announcement, have you been asked, or prior prior to that as well. But how many times you've been asked if Google is going to buy you

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Andy Whiteside: by Citrix

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Geremy Meyers: Probably not as many, because I think a lot of folks are are thinking hard on what that actually means. You know, I think Microsoft makes a lot of sense because we've been doing this for 30 years. But I have had a few folks ask about Google, too. Yeah.

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, I I say that because the 2 companies have worked around each other next to each other, this is the 1st time I'm really, really, really seeing them work close with each other, and all of a sudden products start showing up within the other person's products

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Geremy Meyers: You know, there's a this weird word called partnership, which a lot of times you just. You're in the same space, and to your to your point, I think, for the longest time, you know, delivering

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Geremy Meyers: Google with Citrix posting Citrix on Google. Those sorts of things made sense, but they were really kind of our own lanes and

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Geremy Meyers: I'm not gonna say we didn't jointly engineer things. But this is a whole nother level. So this is unique.

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Andy Whiteside: Well as a as a partner that got involved with a client with like 5,000 chromebooks, and had to get the 2 companies together and fix some issues. It was there, but it wasn't there. But that's yet again, the place where partners like us add value. I'm gonna read the 1st line of the second paragraph says, the news with Google is yet another way. We at Citrix are following through on our commitment to provide continuous value value. Add to our customers, you know, all roads lead back to the investment in the platform. This is

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Andy Whiteside: pretty good example of where a citrix is stepping outside of its, you know, internal lane and getting with someone who makes a lot of sense, I mean, tell me if I'm wrong here. But there's a lot of people that use the chrome browser already, aren't there?

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Geremy Meyers: Tons tons. And I think that's the

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Geremy Meyers: definitely the opportunity for sure is, lots of enterprises are using the chrome browser. A lot of enterprises are using the enterprise chrome browser meaning there's a lot of control and policy things that you can do with that browser that

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Geremy Meyers: we're gonna tap into here. That's what this announcement's all about.

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah. So I I will summarize it before you can go into it is Citrix is gonna take something that's widely already used, and make it better and more effective

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Andy Whiteside: as part of the the Citrix go to market approach, and I don't even know yet where it fits in the product set. We'll talk about that, I assume, at some point in this blog, or we will talk about it after the blog

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Geremy Meyers: Yeah, I mean, listen. I think you nailed it. We can probably wrap up early if you want

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Andy Whiteside: Alright, the benefits, the benefits doing this number one. They've got the harnessing Chrome's worldwide world class web browser. Can you walk me through that one

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Geremy Meyers: So let's talk a bit about what Citrix has today real quick. So before we get to the benefits you know, Citrix has virtual apps and desktops we have. Das we have a virtualization delivery of delivering a virtual app virtual desktop could be windows could be Mac could be Linux.

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Geremy Meyers: But of course, what a lot of customers are looking at are weapons assets right? And they don't necessarily want to do it with a hosted, desktop. Hosted browser if you will. So Citrix has invested quite a bit of energy over the last few years in developing

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Geremy Meyers: an enterprise browser. So it is chromium based. So it's based on that same technology stack. It's chrome. But it's it's our own browser, right? So citrix engineering builds and packages and policy controls and does all the stuff right? That's been a use case for a long time. It's only gonna get bigger as more customers are moving their workloads to web and Sas web being

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Geremy Meyers: typically what we think of is like internally Host Web Websites or Sas being sort of external. Think of like a salesforce or workday or something like that. Right? So

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Geremy Meyers: you know, the idea is, can we create a browser that could do policy controls in the same way that I could do with my virtualization apps right? And that's what Citrix had. You go to one spot, you go to Workspace. App boom, I click one icon. It launches a virtual desktop, or

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Geremy Meyers: you know, my line of business app.

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Geremy Meyers: I click a different icon, and it takes me to workday. But running on a local enterprise containerized, manage browser

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Geremy Meyers: to hit that application with the same poly controls across the board. So

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Andy Whiteside: Jeremy, give me, give me one succinct reason why Citrix did this versus just continue to go to market with your own chromium based enterprise browser, which I assume still going to be there

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Geremy Meyers: It will be there for a time. I'll just say that. But

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Geremy Meyers: I mean you've already hit this nail on the head, Andy. Most enterprises. Not all

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Geremy Meyers: most enterprises have chrome deployed to an endpoint. Are they managing it?

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Geremy Meyers: Not across the board, but most enterprises have chrome deployed. This is a great way to tap into that and provide that same policy control. So that is what we're doing. We are integrating chrome Enterprise, browser Enterprise platform

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Geremy Meyers: into the Citrix stack, and it'll be native

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Andy Whiteside: So true or false question

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Andy Whiteside: the enterprise browser space did not exist, let's say, 3 years ago, and now it's a crowded space, true or false.

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Geremy Meyers: I would say crowd, but I would say, it's unclear, are there? Probably 2 big players,

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Geremy Meyers: and then a lot of folks trying to trying to grab onto it for sure.

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah. And that's what I mean. There's a lot of folks trying to grab. I think what you guys are doing here is very interesting because you're taking someone who has the predominant market share. In fact, I saw something like this at the Igel Conference last week, but you're taking someone that has the predominant market share

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Andy Whiteside: one of the 2 right

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Andy Whiteside: In browsers just in general in the enterprise. And you guys are going to try to make it better and make it more manageable and add the IP and the R. And D, that Google either won't or doesn't have time for it's not all that dissimilar from the Rdp Rds windows in Citrix story from back in the day

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Geremy Meyers: You know I had not thought about it like that, but that's probably a pretty good parallel. I'm still that

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Andy Whiteside: You know.

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Andy Whiteside: speaking of parallels, they have a similar like. They had their enterprise browser, and they're all coming all right. So so that was the 1st one. The next one says, delivering the next generation of secure application access with secure private access. I definitely want to hit on this one, because this is probably what Google doesn't really have, that you give them instantly

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Geremy Meyers: So I I guess there's probably 2 parts to what Citrix was calling the secure private access solution. Honestly, one piece of it was, you know, secure private access, the sort of the VPN replacement feature. So

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Geremy Meyers: you know, there's an architecture that will allow you from an endpoint, access into internal websites.

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Geremy Meyers: Without using a traditional VPN, right? So 0 trust approach.

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Geremy Meyers: and that is thing number one thing number 2, was the enterprise browser that actually becomes bundled with Workspace app. So if you've got Workspace app, and I forget the version that's that's out that includes by default. But

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Andy Whiteside: If you've got Workspace app, you can right click on your icon in the Taskbar, and you can see Citrix enterprise browsers. You get the option there, right?

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Andy Whiteside: I've literally been doing it all through this call. I don't know this meeting. I don't know if you'd be able to see it on the shared screen or not, but I've been just bringing it up, you know, over and over again how you get to it

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Geremy Meyers: Yep, super simple. There's 2 ways to access it. You can launch it and run it standalone. So just right. Click, enterprise, browser. Believe it or not. We also have a tech Preview version of an independent browser. So this is just Enterprise browser, that is not bundled with workspace apps. So your company that has just web and Sas apps. You could deploy that as well. It's a much smaller installer, as you might imagine. But anyways, that's thing number one and thing number 2, Enterprise browser

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Geremy Meyers: paired with Spa. And that is the solution. And what we are doing with this Google announcement is pairing the Spa. The VPN. Replace piece with

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Geremy Meyers: a managed chrome browser, right so effectively replacing the citrix enterprise. Browser long term with the chrome enterprise browser, but including all of the policy controls and things that go along with enterprise browsers to your point. What does Citrix get?

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Geremy Meyers: We get way, more policy control than you can with what we we have today. Right? And what does Google get? Ztna Spa sort of vpnless access? Yep.

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Andy Whiteside: It's it's a really smart. That's why I was having to talk about all the other players out there in the space instead of trying to take over everybody else's market share, or some subset of it. Just go with the market leader and make it better

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Andy Whiteside: kind of like Rds. Microsoft for terminal services in Citrix for a bunch of years

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Geremy Meyers: Correct. Correct. Yeah.

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Andy Whiteside: I mean, that's basically where those workloads are going. It's just now, we're, you know, going to go be engaged there where those workloads are moving to. Anyway.

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Geremy Meyers: so we announced it last week. And I think this blog post came out what on the 18th

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Geremy Meyers: and so who gets this? When do they get it? So

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Geremy Meyers: to take a step back? Spa secure private access.

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Geremy Meyers: Was bundled with our Citrix platform license.

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Geremy Meyers: and this will continue to be bundled with your Citrix platform license, and as of March 18, th if you're a Cpl customer, you're already entitled to it.

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Andy Whiteside: No.

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Geremy Meyers: So it's not a feature.

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Geremy Meyers: Great

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Andy Whiteside: Let's talk to that a little bit, because you're you're incentivizing people to go after being a Citrix platform license customer or rewarding those who have

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Andy Whiteside: just for clarity here.

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Andy Whiteside: Anybody can. Anybody of decent size and by decent, I'm not gonna put a number to that. But anybody who's willing to say they're gonna use citrix strategically or, yeah, strategically, in their organization can request to be nominated for being a citrix platform license customer, can't they?

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Geremy Meyers: That's correct. Yeah. So I would go out to your partner. Go out to your account, team and talk through it with them like this is our use case. This is how we envision. This is how we want to go. Hey? You know what? Take us through a proof of concept proof of value and help us quantify that. You know, I think what's interesting about this is when we think through. And the 3rd bullet point here is reducing costs

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Geremy Meyers: is, let us help you think through where you can reduce some of those costs as well. So we're working with a customer now who can turn off a significant number of virtual desktops by going to this model and almost justify the cost of a transition to a Cpl. That's thing number one thing number 2, you've got customers who are already paying for the

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Geremy Meyers: yeah. Let me get this right. Chrome enterprise platform license, platinum license that

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Geremy Meyers: the Cpl. And get the same functionality, and more

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Geremy Meyers: by simply, you know, moving over that spend from Google to Citrix.

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Geremy Meyers: And don't worry. Google's taken care of here. So you're not pissing off Google

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, yeah, no. It makes a ton of sense like this really is one of the most

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Andy Whiteside: most impactful logical things that Citrix has done in a long time, and that that doesn't mitigate some of them investments in the technology of late, because there's been a bunch but technology and business investment. This, this makes a ton of sense

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Geremy Meyers: Yeah, you know. And I I you know. The one thing I haven't done yet is, I haven't talked to customers who are leveraging cep so chrome. Enterprise, platinum.

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Geremy Meyers: How are they accessing without an Spa type solution today, like, what does that that process look like?

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Andy Whiteside: I know I know 3 letter acronym that I hate.

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Andy Whiteside: VPN

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Geremy Meyers: VPN.

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Andy Whiteside: Alright if you're listening.

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Andy Whiteside: if you, if your users, not your technical team that that I can get away with. But if your users in 2025 are still using a VPN. You're doing it wrong.

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Andy Whiteside: The full VPN. Like, you know, Ipsec, or whatever VPN.

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Geremy Meyers: Tunnel. Yep.

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Andy Whiteside: Full tunnel VPN. Giving them access to whatever you forgot to not give them access to. That is wrong. That's where the Spa stuff in a browser or some app strategy kicks in

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Geremy Meyers: So I know this isn't about Spa, specifically the VPN piece. But you know, let's talk about that for a second. So typically, how those Vpns have worked, and why this has been an issue in the past is when I open up a VPN.

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Geremy Meyers: Without a lot of Acls access control lists and and and filtering my tunnel for the most part wide open to whatever I'm terminating to. Right? So the data center could be a Dmz, whatever that looks like it's a full tunnel, typically, and so

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Geremy Meyers: spa kind of flips that on its head and goes, you can connect. But it's

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Geremy Meyers: no access by default. And you've got to go turn

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Geremy Meyers: access on on a per app basis per website basis, you know, per, by the way, we support Tcp apps as well, so we can still support, not just Web and Sas. But you've got.

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Geremy Meyers: Listen, it wants to use an Rdb client. That's fine, but we're doing it by exception, and it's 33, 89, as opposed to open the tunnel and give you access to everything

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Andy Whiteside: Right?

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, I mean, it makes total sense. Now that we have the technology to do it, the Vpns

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Andy Whiteside: almost should have never existed. It was a necessity thing, and security was an afterthought.

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Andy Whiteside: like real security, like security across the the wire. That was the idea then. But that's not what bad stuff happens. Now.

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Andy Whiteside: speaking of which more to come from Google, it starts off with malware detection and prevention. That's something that you know. Maybe Vpns can do, but not at the level we're talking about here. What does this mean?

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Geremy Meyers: So there are policies that are native to Chrome Enterprise platform platinum. I got to get this name right. That Enterprise browser doesn't have right? So we can do some level of dop. Not a lot. You know. We can do containerization, and we can apply policies. But things like malware detection, you know. Think about what your number one

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Geremy Meyers: access point for malware. Is this the browser? Right? So if we could block this in the browser.

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Geremy Meyers: I mean that would be pretty critical. Not just that, but but fishing as well. Right?

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Geremy Meyers: So that would be thing number one. So although we're talking about potentially running this on an endpoint, a lot of value here. I would argue also do this within your Citrix sessions as well. We've had customers who have been impacted, not because it was a quote unquote citrix issue.

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Geremy Meyers: It's just something has happened within the Citrix session which, by the way, probably originated with from browser if we could stop that with.

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Geremy Meyers: you know, a managed browser with just.

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Geremy Meyers: you know, inherent malware detection that'd be huge

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Stay with me for a second. Right? What you're doing in your physical desktops good for your virtual desktop, and vice versa, as it relates to browsers. Browsers are bad browsers are very, very bad in terms of being security related risk, but they're also the future, and really the current of most application access. It's a blessing and a curse

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Geremy Meyers: 100% a blessing and a curse

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Andy Whiteside: And not only

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Geremy Meyers: That's why it's a target

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Andy Whiteside: Well, let me let me clarify something you said. You're right. The browser is where the bad stuff come. But the browser with that user that's empowered to do all kinds of stuff through the browser. That's where the really bad stuff happens. And that's where you know, some of the more intelligent aspects of this kicks in

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Andy Whiteside: all right, malware detection. You mentioned the second one here. Data, loss, prevention, anything else to add about that one

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Geremy Meyers: No, no, I think it's pretty straightforward, you know. There's a lot of controls baked into Cep that that they bring with us

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Andy Whiteside: And here's where the beautifulness kicks in centralized management. This is where I expect you guys to do a lot with the chrome browser solution

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Geremy Meyers: Yeah. So here's what's interesting about this is, you know, I think there are 2 ways to centrally manage this right. So if you're doing this from byo devices. There's 1 approach. If you're doing this from a corporate managed vice, there's a an entirely different way to do it. The policy controls work exactly the same. It's how are you managing the browser? Right? So on the one hand, and maybe I'm doing this in a virtual desktop. Maybe I'm doing this from a corporate issued laptop or desktop. You know I can push out a control, a policy control that will affect.

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Geremy Meyers: you know, every single person who logs in and uses that browser on that machine versus in a Byo where I might have my. You know my profile, that represents, like my personal gmail. Right? Like I use Gmail, I'm using chrome for that. But I might have a different profile that represents work. I can push out a policy that only impacts my work. Profile doesn't touch my personal profile. Byo, right? And for corporate managed, I could have something entirely different. I want to push down a policy that impacts anyone who uses that browser on that device

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Andy Whiteside: that's gonna be really smart. And I'm assuming some of the other things you guys do like, you know, session recording. And that type of thing that's gonna kick in, maybe at some point, too, based on this scenario

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Geremy Meyers: I mean, there's a few things that might kick in right. So you know, again, I don't know the detailed product roadmap. But think about session recording. Think about app protection. Right? So

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Geremy Meyers: again, screen scraping. And you know, key logging protection. And listen, Lord knows what the AI on the endpoint is gonna gonna bring us in the future, too. But

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, there's a lot we can bring to that browser. Yep.

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Andy Whiteside: and I'm already thinking like a secure browser service.

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Andy Whiteside: Would there could could be this, but very

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Geremy Meyers: I would think so. Yeah.

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Geremy Meyers: Yeah, that's the so again, that's the Spa part. That's the VPN list. 0 trust

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Geremy Meyers: piece that we talked about where you know it talks about micro segmentation. What that means is just, you know, we can allow access on a per app per website basis.

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Geremy Meyers: It limited to just that application. So again.

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Geremy Meyers: this is way more eloquent and saying, You know, we're trying to restrict lateral movement, meaning, you know, once you're in. So you have access to as opposed to a full VPN. Where I could bounce around. Once I got in the front door

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Andy Whiteside: So let me read the last paragraph here, with the integration of Citrix, sorry Citrix Chrome Enterprise Premium, the Citrix platform delivers yet again now offering customers a streamlined, secure solution for managing web and Sas apps news. Great implications continue working closely with a partnership with Google to bring applications and tools to customers who rely on day to day

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Andy Whiteside: directly into the Citrix environment for those legacy. X. 80. I'm adding this part for those legacy x 86 application, including windows, windows, OS, and those pure native Sas apps, which is where we're all heading our grandkids. Unless something happens between native sas apps and progressive web apps. Our grandkids will never see

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Andy Whiteside: a fat X 86. Application. Heck, my kids, who are 22. May they barely see them now.

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Geremy Meyers: I mean, if I'm telling you how the sausage is made. I don't even have virtual app. I'm lying. I do have a few virtual apps live to me as a citrix employee, but most of what I access and how I access it is with a managed browser the citrix managed browser. I'm assuming at some point this year that will move over to

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Geremy Meyers: a chrome managed browser. So I just know what that is.

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, I mean, I I'm probably the only person that is integra that on a daily basis uses a Vdi session. I do it from various devices all over the place. Most of the companies just native Sas apps. And we're, you know, 13 years old. So we got to basically be born on sas apps

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Geremy Meyers: Yup, it feels weird to say, but as a citrix employee that is primarily my method of access is web and Sas apps. Now

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Geremy Meyers: I've got quite a few web apps that are internally hosted that run my job, but

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah.

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Andy Whiteside: well, and and as a citrix employee from 13 years ago it was. It was Sas apps then, in many cases, except it was through a published Browser

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Andy Whiteside: So the world is.

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Andy Whiteside: I don't wanna say it's come full circle it has. But at the same time it's a different circle.

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Geremy Meyers: That's what I say. You got different world. How about that?

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Andy Whiteside: Well, Jeremy, thanks for jumping on and going through. This is you know, very timely and hopefully, people that listen get a lot of value out of it. Feel free to reach out to us. Either Jeremy Myers or Andy Whiteside through Linkedin, and happy to have a conversation, I'll I guess, through this integra commercial here I forgot to at the beginning. You know, we're doing a lot in the space helping a lot of customers. In places where other partners can't. Other vendors can't and you know we're just doing it to the point where

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Andy Whiteside: we're helping and retaining a whole lot of customers doing it. If you're on this, listen to this, podcast reach out to me via linkedin, and we'll find out how to get you connected with what we're doing and at a minimum at a minimum, Jeremy and I'll put this in your head for you and all your folks at a minimum if you're a Citrix shop today, as it relates to us, at least get a minimal support contract with us, it's like next to nothing. And if you need help at a moment's notice. I've got a team of experts that can jump on with you in no greater than 30 min to help you out.

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Andy Whiteside: All right. Well, I'm done, Jeremy. Anything we didn't cover. You want to cover

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Geremy Meyers: You know what I did say? I was gonna circle back to this but just to just to let you know

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Geremy Meyers: integra is the the tip of the spear on this, too. So we're about to kick off a Pov Poc, whatever you want to call it. Which is this technology for a customer that wants to go big on web. And sas right? So I'm not gonna name drop. But I think we kick that off next week. Andy

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Andy Whiteside: Oh, that's good! I didn't know

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Geremy Meyers: Yep.

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Geremy Meyers: and I think this will be with, I think this will be with the Google Stack, too. So it should be fun

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Andy Whiteside: Yeah, it should be.

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Andy Whiteside: Well, we'll talk more about that after we hit the stop button.

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Andy Whiteside: Alright, sir, thank you very much for your time we'll look forward to it, doing it again in a week or 2.

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Geremy Meyers: We'll see you next week