Citrix SecurSpaces™

SecurSpaces

Citrix SecurSpaces™ is a secure, cloud-based development environment (CDE) designed to enhance developer productivity while maintaining enterprise-grade security. Its purpose is to streamline the provisioning and management of coding environments, so organizations can boost efficiency and collaboration among internal and external teams.

It provides fast onboarding through preconfigured, container-based workspaces that are accessible from anywhere, making it well suited to hybrid and remote teams. The platform can be deployed on public or private clouds and on self-hosted servers, and it supports fully air-gapped operation for high-security settings.

By centralizing development resources and removing local dependencies, SecurSpaces helps protect source code, credentials, and intellectual property. It enforces access controls and integrates with security models such as Zero Trust, reducing the risk of data leaks and supporting DevSecOps practices.

The platform also helps reduce the costs of high-specification laptops, maintenance, and security software, while giving real-time visibility and governance over the development lifecycle. Its environments integrate with common DevOps tools and CI/CD workflows.

Other names you will see

Two other names appear in and around the product. Both refer to SecurSpaces.

Name	Where you meet it
Secure Developer Spaces	The SSH extension for VS Code-based IDEs is published as Citrix Secure Developer Spaces - Remote SSH, and the sidebar it adds carries the same name. Deployment domains use the short form, as in `assets.sds.citrix.com`.
Strong Network™	The platform’s name before Citrix acquired it. It survives in identifiers that cannot be renamed without breaking existing deployments: the `strong_network_startup` directory an image must provide, the `/strong/` paths inside a workspace, and the `strongnetwork` images on Docker Hub.

Where to go next

If you want to	Start here
See the specifications, limits, and what it integrates with	SecurSpaces at a glance
Understand what the platform does for developers	SecurSpaces for developers
See how the pieces fit together	Architecture
Create your first workspace	Create your first workspace
Deploy the platform	System requirements
Understand how the platform is structured	Concepts
Give an AI assistant access to this documentation	Give your AI assistant access

For AI assistants and agents

This documentation is published in the llms.txt format:

Index: https://assets.sds.citrix.com/llms.txt
Full corpus: https://assets.sds.citrix.com/llms-full.txt

If you run SecurSpaces, your own instance serves the same files at /docs/llms.txt and /docs/llms-full.txt, matching your deployed version. See Give your AI assistant access.

The official version of this product documentation is in English. Any non-English version is solely provided for your convenience and may include machine-translated content. For more information, please refer to the Machine Translation Disclaimer on Cloud Software Group home.

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Other names you will see

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