Citrix Secure Private Access vs Menlo Secure comparison

Citrix and Menlo Security are both solutions in the ZTNA category. Citrix is ranked #17, while Menlo Security is ranked #27. Citrix holds a 2.0% mindshare in Z, compared to Menlo Security’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Citrix users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Menlo Security users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Menlo Secure and Citrix Secure Private Access compete in the cybersecurity market. Citrix Secure Private Access takes the lead with versatile features, while Menlo Secure impresses with pricing and support, providing excellent value.

Features: Menlo Secure offers robust web gateway capabilities, secure browsing, and threat isolation. Citrix Secure Private Access provides secure access to applications, zero trust architecture, and comprehensive policy management. Menlo focuses on web security, while Citrix emphasizes application security.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both products support cloud-based deployment. Menlo Secure is known for straightforward setup and responsive customer service. Citrix Secure Private Access offers more in-depth deployment options with a steeper learning curve. Menlo's process is streamlined compared to Citrix's flexible solution.

Pricing and ROI: Menlo Secure features competitive pricing, a lower entry cost, and quicker ROI due to ease of use and minimal deployment time. Citrix Secure Private Access, while more expensive, delivers returns through advanced access management and security capabilities, despite higher upfront costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Citrix Secure Private Access

Ranking in ZTNA

17th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Menlo Secure

Ranking in ZTNA

27th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Secure Web Gateways (SWG) (31st), Firewalls (51st), Cloud Security Remediation (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the ZTNA category, the mindshare of Citrix Secure Private Access is 2.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Menlo Secure is 0.7%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Cheri Smith

Information Systems Analyst II at State of Illinois

Makes it convenient to work from home, supports everything I need, and is easy to use

When everybody is trying to log in and work sometimes there is a little latency but not a whole lot. This latency also depends on the type of server you have, how may users are logging in and users' home connection (WIFI or Ethernet). If the weather is bad, sometimes, you can get disconnected. I log in every day and I don't usually have any issues unless it is really storming out and then it can be latent. When we go to print, we have to go through secure print. The secure printing kind of takes a while. It is a little latent.

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Olivier DALOY

Group Information Systems Security Director - CISO at Faurecia

Secures users wherever they are and enable us to inspect SSL traffic, but we encountered too many issues

The solution should have no impact but it does have a bit of impact on end-users. For example, we encountered some issues in the downloads that took longer than they did without using Menlo. That is clearly not transparent for users. We expected not to have any latency when downloading anything from the internet with Menlo compared to without Menlo. We are now transitioning to another solution. The main reason for that is that managing all of the exceptions and troubleshooting all of the issues our users have had connecting to the internet has become too significant in terms of workload, compared to what we hope we will have with another solution. In other words, we hope to get the same level of protection, while reducing the number of visible bugs, issues, latencies, impacts on performance, et cetera, that we have today with Menlo. We already solved most of them, but we still have too many such instances of issues with Menlo, even though it is protecting us for sure. The weak point of the solution is that it has consumed far too much of my team's time, taking them away from operations and projects and design. It took far too much time to implement it and get rid of all of the live issues that we encountered when our users started using the solution. The good point is that I'm sure it is protecting us and it's probably protecting us more than any other solution, which is something I appreciate a lot as a CISO. But on the other hand, the number of issues reported by the users, and the amount of time that has been necessary for either my team or the infrastructure team to spend diagnosing, troubleshooting, and fixing the issues that we had with the solution was too much. And that doesn't include the need to still use our previous solution, Blue Coat, that we have kept active so that whatever is not compatible or doesn't work with Menlo, can be handled by that other solution. It is far too demanding in terms of effort and workload and even cost, at the end of the day. That is why we decided to transition to another solution. If we had known in the beginning that we would not be able to get rid of Blue Coat, we probably would not have chosen Menlo because we were planning to replace Blue Coat with something that was at least able to do the same and more. We discovered that it was able to do more but it was not able to replace it, which is an issue. It is not only a matter of cost but is also a matter of not being able to reduce the number of partners that you have to deal with. In addition, they could enhance the ability to troubleshoot. Whenever a connection going through Menlo fails for any reason, being able to troubleshoot what the configuration of Menlo should be to allow it through would help, as would knowing what level of additional risk we would be taking with that configuration.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is easy and simple, and it has got an easy interface. It is not hard to learn. With just three clicks, you log in, and you're there."

"Virtual desktops and virtual apps are most valuable."

"Accessing the internet with a proxy from anywhere is the most valuable feature. It ensures that users are only able to browse legitimate websites. If they happen to go to a legitimate website with a malicious payload, the isolation feature will take care of that."

"The fact that it is a cloud proxy solution is another feature we like. For example, if you acquire a new company, you can use it to protect that new company without the need to install anything physically on their networks."

"It has reduced security events to follow up on. While it is not 100%, there has been probably a 90% or more reduction. We were getting hit left, right, and center constantly from people browsing the Internet and hitting bad websites. It was not just bad websites that were stood up to be malicious, but good sites that were compromised."

"For us, the primary goal is protection on the web, and that's extremely important. We're not using any of the other services at this time. The web part is key to the success of the organization. It gives us the ability to protect. It can isolate. It opens the session in an isolated format so that the code isn't running locally. It is running over in the Menlo environment, not in ours. It is not running on the local computer, whereas if you were to go to a normal website, it would run Java or something else on the local machine and potentially execute the malicious code locally. So, it does give us that level of protection."

Cons

"When we go to print, we have to go through secure print. The secure printing kind of takes a while. It is a little latent."

"INGPU for engineering software is an area of improvement."

"We are now transitioning to another solution. The main reason for that is that managing all of the exceptions and troubleshooting all of the issues our users have had connecting to the internet has become too significant in terms of workload, compared to what we hope we will have with another solution."

"In the best of all worlds, we wouldn't have to make any exceptions. However, that is a big ask because a lot of that depends on how websites are constructed. For example, there are some very complex, application-oriented sites that we end up making exceptions for. It is really not that big an issue for us to make the exceptions. We feel like we are doing that without a huge impact on our security posture, but we do have to make some exceptions for complex sites, e.g., mostly SaaS-type sites and applications."

"Currently, I don't have a good way to see which of my rules are being used in the access control lists. I have numerous entries, but are they all still needed? A report that would show me my list of who is allowed and whether we're actually using it would be useful because I can then go clean up my list. It would be easier to manage. We would eliminate the vulnerability of unused services."

"The user monitoring could still be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. They should provide better licensing options."

"We save a ton of money and time. Previously, the numerous hits that we were receiving from our security tools, prior to implementing them, had to all be chased down, dispositioned, and endpoints had to be reimaged. It was just a ton of effort to do all that. That is where the savings from time and money come in."

"The solution is expensive. It's more expensive than the solution I previously used. Compared with the other cloud-based solutions, it's very competitive."

"It is appropriately priced for what they're doing for us. Considering the protection provided, I feel their pricing is spot-on."

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Also Known As

Citrix Secure Workspace Access, Citrix Access Control, Citrix Secure Internet Access

Menlo Security Web Security, Menlo Web Security

Overview

Citrix Secure Private Access (formerly Citrix Secure Workspace Access) competitive pricing plans to help meet your business goals.Go beyond traditional security controls to keep your applications secure and your hybrid workforce productive with Citrix Secure Private Access. Try our pricing calculator to estimate the monthly cost to protect your users and data.

Citrix Secure Private Access Standard includes SSO to SaaS and web applications with multi-factor authentication, helping to reduce the odds of account compromise by 99.9%.

Citrix Secure Private Access Advanced: intelligently apply watermarking, clipboard access, download restrictions, site navigation controls, and more with adaptive access based on user location, device posture, and risk scores. Includes advanced multi-factor authentication natively with Citrix cloud for all non-virtual applications, as well as ZTNA access to TCP and UDP-based apps.

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Menlo Security Secure Application Access

Menlo Security Secure Application Access makes zero trust access easy, giving users secure connectivity to private applications, including web and legacy applications. At the core of Secure Application Access is the Menlo Secure Cloud Browser, which fetches, secures and delivers the content for users.

In addition to providing simple-to-deploy, clientless ZTA, Secure Application Access and the Menlo Secure Cloud Browser protect applications from attacks such as session hijacking, cookie manipulation, and other tactics that employ protocol manipulation.

Secure Application Access protects applications from Internet threats and provides granular controls for added protection of the application and associated data. These security controls include Read-only/Read-write, Upload/download, Copy/paste, AV scanning, Sandboxing, and Data Loss Prevention.

Last Mile Data Protection

Menlo Last-Mile Data Protection identifies and prevents sensitive data from leaving your company by meticulously inspecting all file uploads and user input across browsing sessions. Leveraging the Secure Cloud Browser, users are protected from the internet and you can protect your organization from data loss with comprehensive traffic monitoring and controls. This approach addresses the growing concerns surrounding data leakage in the age of AI tools like ChatGPT.

By identifying sensitive data through file types, regular expressions, or predefined libraries, Menlo Last-Mile Data Protection empowers security teams to regulate data input into AI platforms and prevent unauthorized uploads. This capability provides crucial protection for intellectual property, PII, and other confidential information.

The solution leverages the Menlo Cloud Security Platform's visibility and control over traffic to reliably detect and prevent data leaks originating from both browser submission forms and non-browser traffic. With the ability to inspect encrypted web traffic, Menlo Last-Mile Data Protection enforces DLP policies consistently across all users and devices, ensuring comprehensive data protection.

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