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Avecto, the leader in Windows privilege management, today announced that it has been certified as Citrix Ready®.

The Citrix Ready® program is designed to build world-class alliances with industry leaders of which Microsoft, Dell and HP are currently members.

"This is the first step in bringing our award-winning technology, Privilege Guard, to virtual desktops, whether hosted in the cloud or on-premise", said Mark Austin, CTO. "With the Citrix Ready® status customers can feel confident that Privilege Guard is officially validated and compatible with XenDesktop and XenApp".

Privilege Guard is the most comprehensive application control and privilege management solution on the market today. With Privilege Guard, all users log on with a standard user account and privileges are assigned directly to the applications that require them. Privilege Guard can manage locally installed or virtualized applications, and it can also handle on-demand software installation to cater for more advanced users.

Privilege Guard is integrated with Windows Group Policy, leveraging all of the benefits of Active Directory and Group Policy, including hierarchical policy management and delegated administration. Active Directory Group Policy also brings proven enterprise stability and scalability, as no additional backend infrastructure is required to manage the Privilege Guard solution.

This latest certification for Privilege Guard demonstrates Avecto's continued plans to work closely with trusted partners, through the Citrix Ready partner ecosystem, and to help deliver the least risk Windows 7 desktop to both physical and virtual desktop environments.

Avecto is the leader in Windows privilege management, helping organizations to deploy secure and compliant desktops and servers. With its award winning Privilege Guard technology, organizations can now empower all Windows based desktop and server users with the privileges they require to perform their roles, without compromising the integrity and security of their systems.

Customers of all sizes rely on Avecto to reduce operating expenses and strengthen security across their Windows based environments. Our mission is to enable our customers to lower operating costs and improve system security by implementing least privilege. Avecto is building a worldwide channel of partners and system integrators and is headquartered in Manchester, UK. For more information, visit www.avecto.com.

About the Citrix Ready Program

The Citrix Ready program identifies verified solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including Citrix® XenDesktop®, XenApp™, XenServer®, NetScaler® and GoToMeeting®. The Citrix Ready designation is awarded to third party products that have successfully met verification criteria set by Citrix, and gives customers an added confidence in the compatibility of the joint solution offering. The Citrix Ready program leverages industry-leading alliances across the Citrix partner eco-system to meet a wide variety customer needs, and currently incorporates over 2,800 partners who have demonstrated more than 18,000 product verifications. It also includes the Citrix Ready Community Verified program which allows customers to see thousands of products that have been verified by other customers to work in their production environments.