Tom Kemp's Centrify Blog

In my last blog post I discussed the business reasons for auditing your server infrastructure. In this blog post I will walk you through various options to do auditing of servers, and some of the pros and cons of each.

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It is interesting that when I talk to IT professionals and ask them about their security and compliance requirements for their server infrastructure that in some instances IT pros tell me that auditing their server infrastructure doesn't apply to their organization or they can kick the proverbial can down the road. I can understand that sentiment if their organization was a small-to-medium sized business that may not be a public company and have to deal with SOX, or not in a well regulated industry that has to deal with HIPAA or FERC/NERC, but when an larger organization that is in a regulated industry states that they don't need auditing on all their servers it seems a bit of evangelism is needed to get customers to realize that it is in their best interest to do so. I would also argue that this same evangelism should be considered by smaller organizations. In this blog post and a few others to follow I am going to talk a bit more about auditing, and in this one will discuss the business needs for auditing your servers.

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As we head into the holiday season and the New Year, I first would like to wish all our customers, partners and employees a Happy Holiday season. We certainly appreciate your support. I also want to use this blog post to reflect on calendar year 2011 as it relates to Centrify. This past year has probably been the most significant calendar year for Centrify since 2004 (which was the year we formed the company). In this blog post I want to highlight some of our major milestones and also give some thoughts on what's in store for Centrify in 2012.

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The last of three 2012 predictions from me has been published. The latest is on my predictions in the virtualization market that Virtual-Strategy.com was kind enough to publish.

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I was asked to give some 2012 predictions regarding mobility and ESJ.com was kind enough to publish them.

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Today we shipped Centrify Express 2012 — our comprehensive suite of free Active Directory-based integration solutions for authentication, single sign-on, remote access, file-sharing, monitoring and cloud security for cross-platform systems. It is another milestone release in terms of added functionality (more on that below) and new platforms supported (with nearly 50 new OSes added!). It is also marks the milestone that well over 100,000 IT Pros have acquired Centrify Express in the last 12 months alone.

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