Volume 343, Issue 3 · 6 articles from 3 issues
Financial services IT leaders at a Citrix roundtable discussed resilience, legacy modernization and control as cloud and AI use grows.
Citrix summarizes a New York City roundtable where financial services technology leaders discussed resilience, legacy simplification and control over cloud and AI.
A Celent analyst noted that security, operational resilience and legacy modernization rank among corporate banks' top IT priorities for the next 18 months.
Participants focused on keeping business running when channels, endpoints, identity services or providers fail, noting that rebuilding endpoints can take hours or a full day, and tied modernization to fewer single points of failure and faster recovery.
Citrix argues fragmented supply chain information slows disruption response and connected access is key to resilience.
Citrix's Michael Von Kleef writes that supply chain information is scattered across systems, regions, suppliers, logistics providers, regulators and customers, so leaders may have disruption plans but lack the connected information to act quickly.
Scenario planning identifies risks and owners, but real disruptions require current data to move from assumptions to action.
Citrix positions secure, connected access to information as a core resilience capability.
Citrix argues supply chain leaders should plan for adaptable capabilities rather than trying to predict specific disruptions.
Citrix argues that resilient supply chains prepare to adapt rather than predict, citing Marsh estimates that disruptions cost businesses $184 billion a year and that 65% of companies face at least one bottleneck.
Annual scenario-planning exercises often fail because disruptions cascade, as the 2024 Baltimore Key Bridge collapse showed.
Drawing on McKinsey and the World Economic Forum, the post recommends planning around capabilities needed regardless of cause, such as keeping teams working, sharing information and onboarding new partners quickly.
Google Chrome now runs natively on Citrix UniconOS, enabling enterprise browser security with Citrix SecurAccess.
Google Chrome is now available through the Citrix portal and runs natively on Citrix UniconOS, the immutable endpoint operating system formerly called eLux.
With Citrix SecurAccess with Chrome Enterprise configured, users sign into a managed Chrome profile with corporate credentials to enable enterprise browser capabilities.
Organizations gain zero trust access, AI security controls and data loss prevention in the browser employees already use for SaaS, internal and AI applications.
Citrix announces Citrix Week, Nov. 2-6, with five days of practical AI guidance, product news and technical demos.
Citrix says AI is already changing how people work and IT leaders must put it to use, prove value and keep the business running.
It is launching Citrix Week, running November 2-6, 2026, to give customers and partners practical guidance on putting AI to work while protecting apps, data and operations.
The post outlines five questions the week will tackle, starting with where AI is already in use through employee tools, built-in app features and agents.
Other themes include what AI should be able to access and how visibility shapes decisions about risk and value.
Citrix argues third-party access to business systems has made cyber risk a core supply chain resilience issue.
Citrix says many organizations still view supply chain disruption through an operational lens, planning for port closures, supplier delays, weather and geopolitics.
Increasingly, though, cyber risk has become supply chain risk because suppliers, contractors, logistics providers and partners need access to business systems.
That access keeps work moving but makes third parties potential entry points into critical operations.
Citrix argues organizations need better control over how third parties reach applications, data and workflows, citing IBM X-Force threat data.