Centrify DirectManage Benefits

Active Directory Integration Enhances Security and Efficiency

• You can use existing Active Directory tools that are already familiar to IT staff
• Because Active Directory is invariably among the first IT systems to be updated when employees join or leave an organization, it is the perfect central repository for managing the rest of your non-Windows environment.
• Active Directory already has a robust set of management features, including powerful group-based management of users and computers, granular delegation of administrative rights, and dependable and fault-tolerant refreshing of identity and policy information across your enterprise. Centrify's DirectManage tools integrate tightly with Active Directory to take advantage of these features, which provides you with much more robust capabilities compared to other solutions that try to reproduce these features.

Advanced Features Are Built for Security and Compliance

• Patented account mapping technology enables you to control authentication, passwords and password policies for root and generic service accounts.
• Delegated administration features enforce separation of duties.
• Granular access controls grant users access only to the specific systems they need to access
• Role-based privilege management to limit authorized users to the least privileges they need to perform their jobs

Centralized Management Restores Accountability to Compliance Initiatives

• Gives you global visibility and reporting over access control, privilege management, policy enforcement and audit trails for your non-Windows systems
• Links these entitlements and activities to a single, definitive Active Directory identity, establishing accountability for the privileges that users have and how they use them.
• Enforces consistent configuration and security policies over a wide range of disparate systems.

Deployment, Migration and Management Tools Accelerate Your Time to Value

• Automate the process of discovering systems to be integrated and perform the analysis and installation tasks needed to join them to Active Directory.
• Rapidly migrate identity information into Active Directory from disparate sources such as local files, NIS maps and LDAP databases.
• Manage multiple Linux/UNIX identities across your environment seamlessly within Active Directory, avoiding the need to rationalize conflicting UNIX IDs.
• Automate the day-to-day management of access rights by enabling you to set up and maintain Active Directory groups.

Part of an Integrated Solution for Unified Identity Services

The Centrify Suite provides Unified Identity Services for workstations, on-premise and cloud-based servers across UNIX, Linux, Windows and Mac OS by leveraging your existing identity infrastructure investment — Microsoft Active Directory. With Centrify Suite organizations gain control and establish visibility across heterogeneous systems through integrated authentication and single sign-on, policy management and authorization, auditing and analytics and server isolation and encryption. Built as a single architecture, Centrify Suite — consisting of DirectControl, DirectAuthorize, DirectAudit, DirectSecure and DirectManage — allows organizations to improve operational efficiency and strengthen security and compliance by consolidating islands of identity and centrally managing privilege and policy.