Facebook Secures Remote Access and Speeds Citrix XenApp Using F5
Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, needed to ensure that its remote access portal and Citrix XenApp virtual application environment could provide fast, reliable connectivity and performance—without becoming a pathway for network intrusion and data theft.
Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, needed to ensure that its remote access portal and Citrix XenApp virtual application environment could provide fast, reliable connectivity and performance—without becoming a pathway for network intrusion and data theft.
By deploying an F5 solution that provides tight XenApp integration and unique three-factor authentication, Facebook was able to connect remote employees, vendors, consultants, and partners to applications and web services quickly and reliably, without risk to sensitive user data.
Business Challenges
Facebook’s IT department, which makes corporate applications available to vendors, consultants, and partners via Citrix XenApp, wanted to optimize the performance and availability of its XenApp virtual application environment, as well as upgrade the security of its remote access portal. “Because Facebook is a huge target, we must be able to positively identify every user connecting to our remote access portal and corporate applications,” says Simon Blackstein of Facebook’s corporate IT infrastructure team.