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Centrify DirectManage Benefits

The Centrify DirectManage tool set has been designed to fit the real-world needs of customers whether they manage a few systems or thousands. Click a topic to learn more:

Active Directory Integration Enhances Security and Efficiency

There are several advantages to Centrify's standards-based approach for using Active Directory to manage non-Windows computers and related user identity information.

  • It enables you to use existing Active Directory tools that are already familiar to IT staff
  • Active Directory is frequently the first IT system to be updated when employees join or leave an organization, or their status changes. It is simply easier to extend your Active Directory checklist of provisioning tasks than to maintain a separate one for your non-Windows environment. Account changes happen more quickly, and tasks are less likely to be overlooked. For example, disabling an Active Directory account immediately shuts off an exiting employee's access to non-Windows systems and applications that have been integrated using Centrify.
  • 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 Delegation Features Are Built for Security and Compliance

Centrify DirectManage tools have been built with security and compliance as a key requirement, leveraging advanced Active Directory features to provide:

  • Patented account mapping technology the enables you to control authentication, passwords and password policies for root and generic service accounts
  • Delegated administration features that enforce separation of duties between departmental staff who manage access to their systems and corporate IT staff who manage user accounts
  • Granular access controls to 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

Compliance reporting has traditionally been a challenge in heterogeneous environments in which each department or business unit managed it own set of systems and identities, and each platform had its own method of enforcing policies. Centrify DirectManage provides a set of centralized tools that:

  • Give you global visibility and reporting over access control, privilege management, policy enforcement and audit trails for your non-Windows systems
  • Link 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

Integrating a set of heterogeneous platforms with Active Directory can be a challenging and complex task. Centrify DirectManage gives you tools that:

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