Centrify Corporation, the leader in securing and auditing access to
cross-platform systems and applications through Active Directory, today
announced availability of Centrify Express, a new set of free software
applications and tools, content resources and community forums designed
to help organizations improve security and compliance of data center and
desktop systems. A subset of the company's award-winning Centrify Suite
of identity and access management solutions (IAM), Centrify Express is
ideal for organizations interested in establishing a single sign-on
experience for Linux and Mac users based on their existing Active
Directory credentials. To download the free software, visit www.centrify.com/express.
"We are very proud of the large and growing ecosystem of partners
such as Centrify who have chosen interoperability with Canonical for
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS," says Matt Asay, COO, Canonical. "With the free
Centrify Express offering, organizations of all shapes and sizes can
quickly and easily integrate desktops and servers running Ubuntu 10.04
LTS with Active Directory."
Gartner's 2010 CIO Survey
places identity management as the number one IT security priority
through 2011. The potential misuse of shared credentials by insiders is
leading IT managers to focus on ensuring authentication to key internal
and cloud-based systems to eliminate unauthorized access. In a climate
where budgets are still tight amid multiple competing priorities,
Centrify Express represents a cost-effective solution for ensuring
authorized access by requiring users to log in as themselves rather than
using shared accounts or account credentials that are difficult to map
back to a specific individual. And Centrify Express delivers this
capability by letting organizations both big and small leverage an
existing infrastructure they have already deployed — Microsoft Active
Directory — to secure their heterogeneous computing environment.
Centrify Express comprises:
- DirectControl Express. Enables Linux and Mac OS X
servers and workstations to participate in a Windows Active Directory
domain and gives users Active Directory-based single sign-on.
- DirectManage Express. Automates deployment and
management activities by providing a central solution to discover
non-Windows systems on a network; assess and validate the system's
ability to join Active Directory; download the right packages for
systems; and automatically deploy software to join systems to Active
Directory — all from one easy-to-use graphical management tool.
- Centrify-Enabled Open Source Tools and Utilities.
Allows for cross-platform connectivity and file sharing with
Centrify-enabled versions of OpenSSH, PuTTY and Samba that have been
enhanced and tested to seamlessly work with Active Directory and support
Kerberos while delivered as easy-to-install pre-compiled packages.
- Centrify Express Community: A full open community,
moderated by Centrify technical experts and customers, to support
learning, collaboration and best-practice development in support of
single sign-on and related security and compliance initiatives,
featuring forums, how-to videos, best-practice guides and more.
Centrify Express is a subset of the capabilities provided by the
Centrify Suite that layers on additional capabilities such as Group
Policy, role-based access control as an industrial strength replacement
of sudo, privileged identity management, user-level auditing, server
isolation and encryption of data-in-motion. Centrify Express customers
can simply use Express for free or subsequently upgrade some or all of
their non-Microsoft systems to various editions of the Centrify Suite
that meet their needs.
"Cross-platform identity and access management solutions have
traditionally been too costly and complex for smaller to medium sized
businesses (SMBs), but they often have some of the same security and
compliance requirements such as PCI as larger organizations," said Frank
Cabri, vice president of marketing at Centrify. "Centrify's approach of
leveraging Active Directory combined with our free Express offering
will now allow those organizations to easily improve security and
compliance for their systems and layer on additional capabilities as
their business evolves."
Resources to Ensure Your Success
The Centrify Express program offers a comprehensive set of resources and support to ensure a successful experience, including:
Pricing and Availability
Centrify DirectControl Express, DirectManage Express and
Centrify-Enabled open source tools and utilities are available for
immediate download by visiting www.centrify.com/express. All products are free of charge and include a non-expiring license.
About Centrify
Centrify is the leader in securing and auditing access to
cross-platform systems and applications through Active Directory. From
the data center and into the cloud, Centrify's identity consolidation
and privilege management solutions are used by over 2500 organizations
to reduce IT expenses, strengthen security and meet compliance
requirements. Built on a common architecture, the Centrify Suite
delivers secure authentication, role-based access control, privileged
identity management, user-level auditing, server isolation and
encryption of data-in-motion for the industry's broadest set of systems,
hypervisors and applications. For more information about Centrify and
its solutions, call +1 (408) 542-7500 or visit www.centrify.com.
Centrify, DirectControl and DirectAudit are registered
trademarks and DirectAuthorize, DirectSecure, DirectControl Express and
DirectManage are trademarks of Centrify Corporation in the United States
and other countries. All other product and company names used in this
document may be trademarks of their respective companies.
