Recent Postings

Comparing DirectControl to the Apple Active Directory ("AD") Plug-In

I recently saw an article on options for integrating Macs in a Windows environment. The article noted that "Apple has offered an Active Directory plug-in ever since Mac OS X 10.3" but pointed out a key area that the Apple AD plug-in doesn't provide, namely Group Policy. I want to use this blog post to talk about the differences between our solutions and why some customers choose Centrify DirectControl over "what comes in the box."

Auditing VMware ESX with DirectAudit and Hardening the VMware Infrastructure with the Centrify Suite

This is the last in a series of blog posts on securing VMware environments. In this blog post I will discuss how you can audit interactive administrative access to VMware ESX with DirectAudit and how you can in general harden your VMware Infrastructure with the Centrify Suite.

Managing VMware Roles and Privileges with DirectAuthorize

I am going to discuss how the second product in our suite, DirectAuthorize, complements vCenter Server by providing additional ways to manage roles and privileges in a VMware ESX environment.

VMware Virtual Security and Compliance

In this blog post I want to drill down in detail on some of the value we provide in terms of delivering identity and access management to VMware environments. I am going to first review what are some of the identity management challenges in VMware environments, discuss what VMware provides out-of-the-box in terms of Active Directory integration and its limitations, and discuss what Centrify uniquely offers.

Virtual Security

Today we announced extensive support for heterogeneous, virtualized data centers with the general availability of the Centrify Suite 2008 update 3. With this release we help our customers securely and efficiently transition from a traditional, physical infrastructure to a dynamic, virtualized computing environment.

Centrify Suite 2008 Updated to Support Over 190+ Flavors of UNIX, Linux and Mac

Tomorrow we are announcing the release of Centrify Suite 2008 Update 3. The major news with this release has to do with what we are doing in securing heterogeneous virtual platforms. I will blog on our "virtual security" support tomorrow, but in today's blog want to focus on the other capabilities we added to this release, including the fact that we added support for an additional 40 flavors of UNIX/Linux/Mac, bringing the total count of platforms support to over 190 - well more than anyone else in the industry.