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Beyond Authentication: Using Centrify DirectAuthorize for Fine-Grained Access Control and Privilege Management on UNIX & Linux

Featuring Perry Carpenter, Gartner Security and Privacy Expert

Part Two of the Three Part Expert Webinar Series
Strengthen IT Security and Enhance Compliance by Leveraging Microsoft Active Directory for Cross-Platform Identity and Access Management
Accountability is the cornerstone of secure and compliant IT environments. Organizations that cannot definitively link individual users' access to and activity on key systems risk security breaches or audit failures. The continuing spread of Linux, UNIX and Mac systems across the enterprise has increased the complexity and risk that IT organizations must manage given that UNIX/Linux identities may be managed system by system or with multiple directories. Many organizations are re-evaluating their identity and access management approaches.

Perry CarpenterThis webinar series features Gartner Analyst Perry Carpenter, who outlines best practices in identity and access management, and discusses the role Active Directory can play in centrally managing non-Windows systems and streamlining IT operations. The series also features Centrify solution experts who discuss and demonstrate how Centrify’s solutions are used to integrate heterogeneous systems with Active Directory to achieve significant security and compliance benefits.

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Beyond Authentication:
Using Centrify DirectAuthorize for Fine-Grained Access Control and Privilege Management on UNIX & Linux 		November 19, 2008
10:00 am Pacific
(View the Europe Webinar)
Centralizing the authentication of UNIX and Linux systems is a necessary first step to securing your cross-platform environment. However, it's not sufficient to verify who is logging in. You also need to define, based on their job role, how these users log in, when, and what they can do.

It's a complex task to establish the required global view of individual accountability in cross-platform environments. Locally managing access controls, authentication and authorization is burdensome, unscalable and ultimately inadequate to meet the requirements of PCI, SOX and other compliance audits. What's the best approach to this challenge?

Join this event to learn why setting access controls and authorizations centrally from Active Directory accounts is a simple, cost-effective, and highly reliable method of addressing IT security best practices and regulatory compliance.

Perry Carpenter, Gartner Analyst will explain:
  • What to consider when choosing a solution designed to manage access controls and authorizations within UNIX and Linux environments.
  • The importance of tightening the traditionally lax controls over root accounts, service accounts and privileged commands.
  • The benefits of centrally managing access controls and authorizations leveraging the user identities already stored in Active Directory.

David McNeely, Centrify Director of Product Management will cover:
  • Centrify DirectAuthorize's ability to provide centralized, role-based access control and privilege management for fine-grained user access on UNIX, Linux and Mac systems.
  • How DirectAuthorize enables you to grant users the right to execute commands with elevated privileges, eliminating the need for access to root accounts and passwords.
  • DirectAuthorize's unique Restricted Environment feature, which lets you limit users to a specific "whitelist" of approved commands.

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