Citrix Access Gateway Advanced Edition is a product by Citrix that securely delivers any application with policy-based SmartAccess control. It provides Advanced Access Control through what is called “End-Point Analysis”. It performs security scan over a client’s machine before granting him/her access to corporate resources. Through this, organizations can extend access to datacenter resources from outside the office as well as main full control through comprehensive SmartAccess policies.

Endpoint analysis is a process that scans a client device and detects information such as the presence and version level of operating system, antivirus, firewall, or browser software. Use endpoint analysis to verify that the client device meets your requirements before allowing it to connect to your network.

You can incorporate detected information into policies, enabling you to grant different levels of access based upon the client device. For example, you can provide full access with download permission to users who connect from the field using corporate laptops that are up-to-date with antivirus and firewall software requirements. For users connecting from kiosks or untrusted home computers, you can provide a more restricted level of access that allows previewing documents only or editing the documents on remote servers without downloading them.

Endpoint analysis performs these basic steps:

• Examines an initial set of information about the client device to which scans to apply

• Runs all applicable scans

• Compares property values scanned on the client device against desired property values

• Produces an output verifying if desired property values are found

When a user tries to connect through a logon point, endpoint analysis checks the scans that are filtered for the logon point. All scans with conditions met by the client device are run on the client device using installed or downloaded endpoint analysis client software. These scans return results (called scan output) of detected information or True or False results of required property values. Scans with conditions not met by the client device do not run on the client device and receive a default output defined by scan package, such as False.

Extentrix Endpoint Analysis Scan Packages require Citrix Access Gateway 4.5 Advanced Edition to work adequately, so they don’t require any extra components on the server or client devices rather than requirements of Citrix Access Gateway Advanced 4.5 Edition.