Burton Group Podcast: Leveraging Active Directory for Secure and Integrated Authentication, Authorization and Auditing
Friday, March 20, 2009
Much like we were pleased to present a three-part webinar series with Gartner on best practices in leveraging Active Directory across a mixed network, Centrify is now pleased to offer additional insightful industry analyst commentary — this time with the respected analyst firm the Burton Group in the form of a podcast. Burton Group analyst Mark Diodati (the same person who wrote the "Active Directory Bridge" report that I previously blogged about) interviews our own David McNeely on several topics related to the appropriateness of leveraging Active Directory for cross-platform identity management. There is a particularly good exchange about Active Directory's group- and role-based management features, and how Centrify has leveraged those in DirectAuthorize for UNIX/Linux root access control.
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Interviewer: Mark Diodati, senior analyst for Burton Group Identity and Privacy Strategies
Speaker: David McNeely, director of product management, Centrify
Running Time: 26 Minutes
Synopsis: In this podcast, senior Burton analyst Mark Diodati interviews Centrify's David McNeely on the technical and business reasons for using Active Directory to manage more of your enterprise. Diodati shares some of Burton's findings regarding the reasons why their customers are looking for Active Directory integration solutions. McNeely explains Centrify's recommendations for a successful integration project. They also discuss leveraging Active Directory's rich group- and role-based management capabilities for fine-grained privilege management of UNIX/Linux systems using Centrify DirectAuthorize.
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