Thread regarding Citrix Systems Inc. layoffs

This is utter bs. It made no ripple. AT ALL. These are competitors doing what they do - create FUD. Snore.

Stop it. Security breaches has nothing to do with layoffs.

We have an enormous mid manager overhead that just need to let go. And some departments have too many headcounts.

Some will go and new will come. There needs to be a balance, and talents needs to be switched to other grow areas. It is not fair that some people work 60h per week while others spend their whole day writing a single e-mail..

It’s sad but makes sense that Citrix would have lay-off soon after the security breach. The people that should be getting laid off are the ones who sat by for 6 plus months while hackers stole more than 6T of the companies private information (that’s what the news is reporting). PEOPLE WERE ASLEEP AT THE WHEEEL. Six months is a long long long time to be asleep - just saying. Those people should be replaced with more alert, savy, and woke employees. #truth

@Y8Opoxa-3jzn, while you are correct, current leadership - the chairman included - only care about cutting costs and making the company look marketable. everything screams cost cutting. MarkT's reign only created an employee base comprised of arrogant and entitled people.

The fact that we did not see or notice some hacker walking off with over 6TB of data says it all.

@Y8Opoxa-1iqs - open your eyes. Your stance reflects the arrogance that Citrix customers have come to loathe.

I am one of the many people who left Citrix in the last 10 years and went to work for VMware eventually. I am speaking to many Citrix customers who desperately want to get off the Citrix platform before the next maintenance bill comes due - even if that takes a large investment and a couple of years to accomplish.

I still have many friends and Citrix and consider myself lucky to have had the opportunity to be in the company during its most interesting and rewarding time.

As an aside... this security breach apparently dates back many years and has just now been exposed. Many on this board miss MarkT for a number of reasons. Keep in mind, though, that it was under his leadership that Citrix embraced the BYOD policies. He and other Citrix IT leaders talked about it at conferences and during customer presentations. Of course, everybody assumed that this was done safely with "consumer simple" but "enterprise security". That was the biggest deception ever.

Citrix allowed employees to:

• bring their own Windows and Mac PCs/Laptops without ever managing even portions of these devices (didn't have the technology to do that)

• Allowed employees to remove corporate-owned devices from the domains and thus remove any management or security

• Allowed (and actually encouraged) departing employees to keep corporate owned devices if they were older than a year or two old ("Your laptop is old. We can't give it to a new employee, so feel free to keep it")… without wiping it, without removing files, without taking business relevant files for the team to use.

Countless project stalled with the justification of : Yeah, we had to layoff xyz and she had all the relevant files on her BYOD device and we don't have them anywhere on the network.

All of this is grossly negligent. It didn't start with the current CISO. It started with Mark.

Good luck to all of you.

I hear Vmware and Nutanix is hiring Citrix people. check out https://www.indeed,com/vmware

When you have thousands of customers some of those multi-year contracts are coming due everyday and customers are always evaluating the competition in anticipation of a change. Within the customer IT organization there might be a Citrix champion but also several other IT managers who are looking to grow their career by pointing out their mistakes and proposing a better solution. The Citrix security breach provides just the right opportunity for a regime change within a customer IT organization. Citrix sales will suffer from this massive failure of the Citrix security organization.

It's confirmed a major healthcare provider is seriously reevaluating the security posture of the Citrix Solution and the perimeter defenses for an intrusion violation event This is a major healthcare vertical provider and seriously concerned about the HIPPA implications of a security breach. If they go to VMWare or another provider it will materially impact the Citrix bottom line if they pull the plug due to the Citrix security breach.

Thanks for nothing Stan, even after you receive a $1 Million per year for failing on the job.

Anyone else would be fired and buried for what the ELT is letting you get a pass for.

You’re so full of it. If you had a clue you’d know that’s not how it works. There are multi year contracts and it can take years to change solutions. Go back under your bridge, troll.