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:
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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.