Citrix does NOT recommend implementing any of these settings in production without first discussing them with your organization’s security teams and thoroughly testing and validating them in a test environment. So, my goal here is to provide you with a consolidated list of recommended antivirus exclusions for your Citrix virtualization environment focused on the key processes, folders, and files that we have seen cause issues in the field (and for the most part tend to remain consistent across releases, no guarantees though), rather than identifying every single Citrix process, folder, and file for each product.īefore we continue… WARNING! While we generally feel these configurations and exclusions provide the best balance between security and performance, please don’t forget that antivirus exclusions increase the attack surface of a system and might expose it to real security threats. The introduction of the “Current Release” Servicing Option this year (2016) and resulting frequent product release cycles, in particular, has made it, to say the least, challenging to maintain content that recommends whitelisting all Citrix services against an ever-changing set of product services. But let’s face it, it is a little annoying to have to gather information from multiple product-specific posts/articles to get all configurations that apply to your virtualization solution. There are lots of Citrix support articles and blog posts out there with information on recommended antivirus exclusions for Citrix products, all of which have been extremely helpful over the years.
For up-to-date recommendations on Antivirus exclusions, please refer to the Endpoint Security, Antivirus and Antimalware Best Practices tech paper. UPDATE: Please note that this topic has been moved to Citrix Tech Zone, so this post will not be updated any longer. NetScaler Application Delivery Management.
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